We've heard from a mysterious source (possibly a roaming Ekans) that 2K Games, in addition to working on a new X-COM, is hard at work in a secret location and tinkering with a massively multiplayer online game set in the BioShock universe. Sounds crazy? So did an FPS X-COM, and we all know what's happened there.
2K has made no secret in the past of its interest in the MMO genre, and BioShock has been named as a potential candidate for exploitation before. The publisher is clearly interested in both huge online games and the continued profiteering of the BioShock franchise, so it wouldn't be too surprising to see both goals fuse and become one.
Obviously, this is a rumor from one of our MYSTERIOUS SOURCES, so take it with some salt before anything is announced. Would you play a BioShock MMO, though?
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8:00 AM on 04.14.2010
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Granted, it's a rumor, and Pokemon is Nintendo property, but this is madness!
MADNESS!
No, I would not play.
But isn't Rapture a little small and enclosed for an MMO? It's an underwater city right, but I figured a good MMO needs multiple cities and such?
Dunno, sure they'll find a way to do it.
i'll need to play through the first two first and REALLY fall in love with them to entertain the idea of paying monthly to play one.
No, they count as rumor stories. Hence the rumor tag. Pretty simple, really.
It's nothing personal to you or the site, I just hate the whole industry habit of unsources stories.
They may always go the Global Agenda route. But wouldn't a hinted at MMO suggest they were satisfied with the popularity of the multiplayer? I thought it wasn't actually Thát popular.
(On a unrelated subject: Jim is there any e.t.a. on something on Plain Sight? I'd like to hear your impressions.)
Yeah, but so did a direct sequel.
As for me, D-503 pretty much summed up my feelings.
That means at least one person thought this would be a good idea and that is not good.
There are endless possibilities with an MMO and a fresh universe that hasn't been fully fleshed out. If it's a rumor, let it die, if it's real, give it a chance to shed some details before you judge. If MMO's aren't for you, that doesn't mean the game will suck. Relax.
I've never been into mmo's so I wouldnt play it but it does sound intriguing or completely lame I can't decide brain aneurism!
I mean maybe it could be a FPS MMO -- sorta like turning Borderlands into one. I dunno. Still wouldn't play it.
Why does everything good have to have the "Ooh, let's make it an MMO!" idea hurled at it? It isn't always a cash cow, and judging from what I experienced from BioShock 2, I'm not looking forward to another one anytime soon that doesn't have Ken Levine directly at the helm.
Somebody probably overheard somebody else throwing out ideas in a meeting or something. I bet nothing even comes of this.
Unless it looks like the header image. So cute! =D
"WHY?"