14 DAY TRIAL // With Borderlands, the so-called role playing shooter created by Gearbox, now out and performing well in the charts, the next big release for publisher Take Two is BioShock 2, the first person shooter that is being developed by 2K Marin and is a follow up to the award-winning adventure which surprised everyone when it arrived in 2007.
The game is currently set to be launched on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PC, and the release date is confirmed for February 9, 2010.
And now Take Two has released the cover art it will use on all three versions of the videogame. The box will show off, as the one of the first game in the series did, a Big Daddy and a Little Sister in a pose suggesting their close relationship and the violence that can grow out of it. Of course, the twist this time around is that the Big Daddy depicted is actually the player character that they will control on their second trip to the underwater city of Rapture. BioShock 2 is set to tell the story of a city that is again dominated by an ideologically driven faction, this time a collectivist grouping led by Sophia Lamb. Where Andrew Ryan was interested in the freedom of man and in creating a utopia where anyone could fulfill their potential, Lamb is more interested in a society where people submit to the greater good of the community.
The player should be a Big Daddy, the first one ever put together, which has managed to get over his conditioning and use his free will to make choices. He goes back to Rapture in order to search for the Little Sister he was joined to years back. This particular Little Sister seems to have actually gotten a reputation that is very much cult like in the undersea city.