How I hate my stupid 256k connection. Been downloading the BioShock demo since 9 AM and the damn thing still isn’t done. Of course, until I wait for the remaining 31% of the demo to complete, I need something to do. Thankfully, for sorry blokes like me, 2K Boston, formerly Irrational, have released the launch trailer for BioShock, which is, eerily, set to the upbeat tune of Frank Sinatra’s “Somewhere beyond the sea”, even as the video shows off the Big Daddy holding and (comically, yet painfully) shaking the player’s head with just one gigantic hand. Ahh, good times, although I must say, I don’t like the Little Sisters’ red eyes. They were a lot more creepier when they looked like regular, sick 12-year old girls who kept yelling “Look, Mr. Bubbles! Adam!” and “Get him, Mr. B!” Oh well!

 BioShock Launch Trailer - HD Windows Media [GameTrailers]

And oh, in case you are a PS3 owner and still wondering if the game will hit your favorite Piano Black console with the Spiderman font on it, well, sorry, chumps. Ken Levine has pretty much stated that BioShock will stay exclusive to the PC and the Xbox 360. Looks like you’ll have to spend money on that shiny PC upgrade after all.

Strangely though, for a game that has been generating tremendous applause ever since it was first announced, it looks like the game almost didn’t get made, according to senior designer Joe McDonagh. Speaking to CVG about the game, Joe said:

“Bioshock was a long time in the making. Ever since System Shock II the team had talked about everything they wished they’d done differently. Ken (Levine) spent years pitching the game to publishers but no one was interested, incredible as that seems now. I joined Irrational in December 2004 and my first job was to get a publishing deal for the game (I worked as the Business Development Director for the first six months). I remember pitching the game to one publisher who later told a friend of mine that it was ‘just another fucking PC FPS that’s going to sell 250,000 units.’”

Just another fucking PC FPS? Looks like BioShock might go the way of System Shock 2, which is probably one of the greatest games ever made in the history of gaming, but sadly, didn’t too well at the market. Of course, one hopes that won’t be the case, since the future of a lot of my favorites, including the “Shock” and the SWAT series depends on Irrational scoring big time with this game. Time for FPS fans and jaded game publishers to take their heads out of their ass and start seeing the quality that’s around them instead of sinking more funds into a brain-dead Need For Speed franchise!

Pitching Bioshock - “just another f**king PC FPS” [CVG]

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• the ANGRY pixel » BioShock: Nazis on Tropical Islands Says:
  August 17th, 2007 at 5:14 pm

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