After big releases like Uncharted 2, Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2 Take 2 Marin's Bioshock 2 could very well be the first really big thing in 2010. The FPS which is going to revisit the atmospheric underwater world of "Rapture" makes the top of a list containing of 25 most anticapted games chosen by several thousand readers. Final Fantasy XIII came in second, followed by Sony's God of War 3. Other follow-ups as listed in the source are games like Mafia 2, Max Payne 3 or Gran Turismo 5.
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9lives.be: "M.E. Chung, Multiplayer Designer at 2K Marin, revealed some new multiplayer modes for BioShock 2.

The first mode is Turf War. It's a faction-based mode where you have to gain control of Rapture's territories to win the game. You gain control by finding specific points within the map that control the territories, your proximity to the control point will fill up a meter and gain control of the point for your team when its full. The faction that has held onto the spaces the longest will prevail.

The second one is called ADAM Grab. It's a mode where your possession of the Little Sister gives you ADAM, and the person who holds onto her the longest will win the game. It was a challenge coming up with rules that fit because of the way the cities were designed. We wanted to find something that worked with the strengths of Rapture's architecture, so that's where ADAM Grab comes in – the point is to get the Little Sister and to get "lost" in the city.

Finally, Last Splicer Standing is a variant on the already announced Civil War mode. There's no respawning in this mode like the other ones; it's a round-based mode where each round's winner is determined when everyone on the other team is down. Taking respawn out and putting all the value of survivability on one life changed the pace of the game. We liked that it was a different experience, so we kept it in as a variant for people who really enjoy the slower, more deliberate-action style of gameplay."
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Ripten: "Way back in March of 2008, we reported on a pretty impressive Bioshock 2 fan art collection by then student Ben Mauro. The art was so well done that it caught the attention of 2K Games Community Manager Elizabeth Tobey. That was just the beginning for a kid who 'never expected anything to come' from his school assignment."
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NowGamer finds out everything there is to know on Rapture's new leader during their recent trip to see the game in action

Sophia Lamb is the ideological opposite of her predecessor Andrew Ryan, and the underwater city is quite a different place to be because of it. Speaking about her creation, the game's creative director, Jordan Thomas told us: "Well, it started by asking, 'What would be compellingly different? What school of thought would inform Rapture in a way that would add new dimensionality and really change the original intent of the city?'"
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The BioShock 2 Website is live, offering another official home to the upcoming shooter sequel.
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GamingUnion.net writes, "Digital Extremes, the team behind Bioshock 2's multiplayer, and 2K Games have scheduled a 40 minute demonstration of Bioshock 2's multiplayer for next week's DIG London 2009 game developers conference."
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2K Games has announced an interesting new multiplayer gameplay mode for Bioshock 2 called "Capture the Sister" that adds a Capture the Flag-styled match with Little Sisters as a substitute to flags throughout the map.
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BioShock 2 has been awarded an 18 rating by the British Board of Film Classification due to "strong bloody violence and very strong language."
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GCO: "Returning back into the presents of Rapture for another showing of BioShock 2, Geoff Keighley and crew are set to publicly unveil the newest Big Daddy model – other then the ones we've already seen. Along with that, they'll also be joined by the game's creative director to talk about the game's new "moral choices", and how they shape its story."
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Geoff Keighley writes:

"Huge BioShock 2 episode of GTTV coming on Thursday. Lots of new single player info and footage! You'll meet new characters too...."
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VG247: 2K just confirmed that BioShock 2's releasing on February 9.
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Take-Two's current fiscal year holds few major game releases, but analysts said investors should look further into the future, when games like BioShock 2, Max Payne 3, and a new Grand Theft Auto hit shelves.

"Despite the execution missteps, we think that Take-Two shares should be valued on next year's earnings, and believe that solid profits next year and a GTA announcement will trigger outsized share appreciation," wrote Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter in a research note this week. He expects Take-Two to release Max Payne 3, Mafia 2, Red Dead Redemption, BioShock 2, and The Agent in fiscal 2010, which begins in November 2009.
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Here's some good news to balance out today's announcement that BioShock 2 won't arrive until 2010: the first multiplayer trailer will debut on Thursday.
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VG247: During the Take-Two Q3 2009 financial call tonight, company CEO Ben Feder told investors that while retail is important, downloadable content is a main component to the company's game releases.
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It appears there was a bit of confusion over an original report put out by Joystiq regarding another push back for Bioshock 2. 2K Europe has clarified saying it's simply not true…sortof.

The developer is now saying that despite the push back, Bioshock 2 is still looking at an early 2010 release date. The reports yesterday had the game releasing after March.
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Speaking to a 2K Games representative at GamesCom, Joystiq learned that a new BioShock 2 trailer is set to be revealed at next year's PAX East show, which will also be host to a strong presence from the company. With the undersea sequel still being promoted during the last week of March, we were able confirm the obvious implication: BioShock 2 won't be out during the cluttered first quarter of 2010.
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GamingIndians writes:
Numerous bottles had been placed in ten selected beaches around the world on August 8th, and each contained a glimpse into the life of Rapture - the underwater Utopia designed by Andrew Ryan. What do we learn about life in Rapture from these messages from the past?
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At the start of the week, Gamerz Ink uncovered the story of various gaming websites around the world receiving a mysterious letter forged by one of the residents of Rapture looking for his missing daughter, with attached coordinates detailing the locations of beaches around the world. Mark Meltzer described these locations would be the recipients of some information washing up with the tide, and with Bondi Beach being the first location on the world map to receive the Bioshock 2 related information, at the crack of dawn this morning Gamerz Ink sent down some trusty staff members to investigate this strange event.
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MCV: Trade plays it safe to increase chance of Q4 profits – as key IP is pushed back to 2010
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Most gamers know by now that the much anticipated Bioshock 2 has been pushed back into 2010, not hitting it's expected release date of October 2009. Maybe someone forgot to fill in the marketing team behind Bioshock 2, because Kotaku received a strange letter in the mail today, detailing the locations of beaches around the world that will contain something Bioshock related this Saturday, August 8th.

Being the first on the timeline, Australia will be the first to receive the Bioshock 2 related marketing. So, whoever is heading down to Bondi Beach this Saturday morning at 6:41am for some Bioshock goodness, the GI team will see you there!
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