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BioShock 2 teaser follows through, clues found on beach photo

Yesterday we speculated over one of the mysterious notes from the BioShock 2 website Something in the Sea which indicated an event which would take place at ten beaches around th world at specified times. Curious, some folks showed up at Bondi Beach in Australia today and found what you see in the pictures above - buried wine bottles waiting for them in the sand!

Within the bottles (which were marked "Acadia") were three promotional posters for Rapture (see gallery), including ads for two plasmids: Electrobolt and Decoy. All I can say is ... wow. I'm impressed with the BioShock 2 PR team more than I thought Iever could be. Hats off, guys --keep it up at this rate and you'll have more people frothing at the mouth to buy the game when it comes out then you ever could have hoped for!

[Thanks to Alistair!]

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Drack48's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 10:01
Drack48
Ads by Peggy Olsen and Don Draper.
Alasdair Duncan's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 10:07
Alasdair Duncan
Damm, would have loved to get my hands on some of that stuff. But I'm three hours away from Sydney and .... 6am? On a Saturday? Yeah, never gonna happen. Should've let The GHost know this was happening and he could've roused himself up and check it out!
DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 10:12
DaedHead8
That's a good PR stunt. Wish I was close enough to one of the beaches so I could have seen it for myself.
Chris Carter's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 10:15
Chris Carter
@Drack
Amazing reference!

I think this was a pretty neat PR stunt, but not "amazing". I'm surprised no ones done this before. It's certainly a lot better than Resident Evil's.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 10:24
Chronic Logic
Dang, I want to keep the bottle as a souvenier.
thefailsafe's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 10:24
thefailsafe
I am rather excited... I only wish other companies would take the time to think of such epic PR stunts. This takes the top of my list for sure... And now I'm even more excited for this game!
NoMoneyLeftBoy's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 10:38
NoMoneyLeftBoy
Very classy. I think if I'd stumbled across these bottles I'd have sacrificed myself the the god of awesomeness. Fantastic PR, RIP Ryan :(
tr0tsky's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 11:18
tr0tsky
Wasn't too bad. Getting up at 5 am on a Saturday to go down to the beach was kinda odd, but I met people there and went for breakfast. Was fun. I was hoping for a big daddy to come climbing out of the surf though =(
Takeshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 12:36
Takeshi
Too late. The Hague isn't too far away from me (because The Netherlands is tiny compared to the US). It's a pretty cool PR stunt. I like it. Nothing beats the tiny billboards for LittleBigPlanet though. Hell, nothing beats the game either. Oh I'm such a LittleBigFanBoy.
Zippyduda's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 12:47
Zippyduda
I'm glad I didn't take the 200 mile trip :)

I seriously don't get the plasmids, the Electro Bolt and Decoy were from the first one, nothing new.
welkstar's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 12:50
welkstar
I would love some high-res scans of those posters to print. I already looked on eBay, and there's currently a bottle going for $50.00
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 12:58
Darren Nakamura
Bondi Beach... That's the naked one, right?
CloneTrooper's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 13:27
CloneTrooper
@Dexter345

If only.

Its the biggest beach down here....by biggest, I mean most over populated and crowded beach in summer....
casesomething's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 13:29
casesomething
WALKED OUT THIS MORNING, DONT BELIEVE WHAT I SAW, HUNDRED BILLION BOTTLES WASHED UP ON THE SHORE
Jabberwalk's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 13:42
Jabberwalk
Hell, I'd rather they just work on making the game as great as possible and an appropriate follow up that does justice to one of the best games ever made than work on neat PR events. I don't think I'm the only one that is a little worried this is going to be a cash grab sequel that detracts from the awesomeness of the original game.
JQM78's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 13:43
JQM78
Theres one wine bottle on ebay still intact @ 51.00 with 6 days left to bid.....I'm watching it to see what it will go for....
KapitanFiggs's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 14:00
KapitanFiggs
Wow. That's seriously the coolest PR stunt I ever did see...Dammit, I wants me some BioShock 2 >.<
JLanphear's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 14:06
JLanphear
SHIIIT. I had class this morning so I couldn't make it. Wish I had skipped. . .
JQM78's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 14:23
JQM78
56.00.....
HiddenAHB's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 14:49
HiddenAHB
Wow, somebody is going to have to deal with the Greenpeace hippies for raping the beach.
Captain Larynx's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 14:54
Captain Larynx
My girlfriend and I got up ass-early and drove down to Santa Monica for the 6:11 event this morning. We reached the coordinates by 5 a.m. and joined the roughly two dozen other folks waiting in the dark.

Six a.m. rolls around. We don't see anything. The magical moment arrives. Still nothing. Most of the folks in the group seem to know what it is we're looking for, so it's not like we're waiting for the Dallas Cheerleaders to come leaping out of the waves--we're actively scanning the beach for bottles. It gets to be half past six--still nothing.

Then somebody gets a tip-off from a passing jogger that there's a bunch of bottles about A MILE down the beach, next to the Santa Monica pier. The group, which has swelled to a herd of well over a hundred people, goes stampeding across the sand.

I ran for a while, but it was too far for me, and I was already at the far end of the pack when I started. By the time I wheeze my way over the spot in question, the bottles are long gone. I'm convinced that whomever drew the short lot over at 2K Games got to the location late, saw the crowd already assembled at the coordinates, and thought, "Eff that noise--I'll just dump 'em way over here...!" I felt like a real schmuck having gotten there before 90% of the folks who left with bottles. Seriously, I probably would have had better luck sauntering in at 6:30...

If I'd known this thing was going to play out like it had, I wouldn't have gotten up so damn early. Kudos to that guy from Naughty Dog Games who was handing out codes for character skins and free copies of Uncharted, though; my girlfriend got one of the games, so the morning wasn't a total wash.
wanderingpixel's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 17:35
wanderingpixel
MUST FIND ON EBAY!
aZZmodan's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 18:27
aZZmodan
Now THAT'S how you do viral...!!! Bravo...!
buzski's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 19:30
buzski
That is neat as all hell
The GHost's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/08/2009 20:03
The GHost
Holy crap, Bondi is right near my place! I'll probably head down there and see if there are any left.
nebones's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/09/2009 03:48
nebones
I wish I could of gone.
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I approve of this.
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