bioshock-2Bioshock 2 will wash ashore in Europe on 30 October and the US on 3 November, according to publishers Take Two Interactive. Reviewers now have precisely five months to come up with a headline that does not include the phrase “Who’s the Daddy?”

Bioshock 2 returns you to the failed underwater utopia of Rapture – an one-time Art Deco paradise run along the principals of Objectivism, now crumbling and leaking following the catastrophic events of the original game. This time around, you get to galumph about the place in the heavy diving boots of a prototype Big Daddy – seven feet of muscles and attitude, and bad news for any splicers that get in your way.

Take Two boss Strauss Zelnick made the announcement in an earnings conference call, but pointedly did not mention which platforms would be released on those dates. “We’re still working out what the right SKUs are and the right timing,”said Zelnick.

Happy to confirm a release date but still working out the timing? Sounds like there might be som eplatform exclusivity in the works. Bioshock 2 is set to come out on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC but it is more than possible that either Sony or Microsoft might have offered a bung to get their platform’s version of Bioshock 2 out a few weeks before their rival.

30 October | £tbc | Bioshock 2 teaser site (via Gamasutra)

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  • Mark G

    History says, if anyone is going to bribe Take2 to delay the competitions title, then it will be Microsoft, they seem to be the ones paying to knobble the competition this generation.

    I don’t quite understand how Microsoft can legally get away with these kind of tactics, There are many anti-trust/anti-compeitive lawsuits they have already lost for dodgy buisness practices, and paying companies to delay finished versions of competitors software must surely fall foul of these too.

    If Microsoft paid companies to delay Apple or Linux software, or if they were caught knobbling Firefox then they would be hauled over the coals… This is no different…

  • Toby Knight

    To be clear – nobody is saying that either Sony or Microsoft are paying to have their rival’s versions of Bioshock 2 delayed – just that they will get an early release on their platform.

    Platform exclusivity is standard practice in the industry and Sony are just as ‘guilty’ as MS – Look at the recent cancelling of the Xbox Ghostbusters game in favour of the PS3.

    Both companies are convinced that exclusives can sell a platform but game publishers are often happier releasing on both to get the widest audience possible. Early releases on one platform or the other – or things like exclusive DLC – can give one platform a perceived edge without cutting the other out completely.

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