14 DAY TRIAL // With just one week away from its February 9 launch date, Bioshock 2 is getting more and more of its secrets revealed. We know that 2K Marin is already working on some DLC for the game and also that while it will be present, SecuROM will play a small part in the title's DRM. 2K Marin also gave us a brief run-down of the plasmids that we'd find in the title, but also revealed that the game's multiplayer would offer a strong performance, and that it would be story-driven. Now, the developers have decided to take the veil off one of the game's most important characters, Augustus Sinclair.
The first game made brief mentions of Sinclair, and his role in the world of Rapture, as well as in its decline, but the second one is going to take a far closer look at him. The scientist is the owner of Sinclair Solutions, the company responsible for the research and development of plasmids. "Sinclair – who appears prominently in both the single-player and multiplayer versions of the game – is a good example of moral relativism," Jordan Thomas, 2K Marin's creative director, said while talking to PC Zone.
And the moral relativism he mentioned is mostly derived from his binary nature, the character being neither good, nor bad, as he can't be labeled as neither a hero nor a villain. "He's not a nihilist, such as Fontaine, be he's continually defining the rules on the hoof as he goes. He is closer to us, yet he has no scruples. He is affably monstrous from time to time, but he is also a useful ally to you," he explained.
As for his part in the multiplayer, the game's Senior Producer, Melissa Miller, explained that, "While Sinclair is the chief character in the multiplayer game, he doesn't actually physically show up, but his presence is very much felt because the citizens of Rapture have enrolled in his 'Sinclair Solutions Home Consumers Rewards Club' - this pyramid scheme he has started up in order to promise these people new cutting-edge plasmid weapon technology."