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We’ve heard many adjectives used to describe DLC. This, however, we think is a first. “Aggressive” DLC doesn’t sound like something we’d purchase, so much as we’d restrain it by luring it onto our PCs using money as bait. Then, with its fury temporarily caged, we’d try with all our might to beat the content before it could burst free from our hard drives and swallow us whole.
We don’t think that’s quite what 2K has in mind, however.
“2K Games announced today an aggressive post-launch downloadable content plan for BioShock 2 that extends and enhances the single and multiplayer experiences by adding more glimpses into the award-winning world of Rapture,” said the publisher in a press release.
Coming down the Bathysphere first is the Sinclair Solutions Test Pack, which brings a number of improvements to the multiplayer side of BioShock 2. These include new weapon upgrades, a rank increase to 50, new playable characters, five additional masks, And More ™! It’ll run you 400 Microsoft Points, or $4.99, and is launching in March.
Honestly, though, we’re more interested in the forthcoming single-player DLC, which promises “more narrative, new tools and new challenges that extend the lore and fiction of the failed Utopia under the sea.”
Still, though, a little something for everyone is better than nothing for no one, right? Regardless, it looks like BioShock 2 is here to say, and that’s a-okay with us.
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kamikaji
February 23, 2010 at 6:21pm
How about announcing an aggressive NOT SLAM CONSUMERS WITH RETARDED DRM PLAN???????
I'm sick of SecuROM and its counter-intuitiveness. I would buy a WHOLE LOT more games if they didn't have SecuROM.
samduhman
February 23, 2010 at 11:11am
I don't pay attention to DLC annoucements since I refuse to buy any. It comes across as a rip off. A way for the dev/pub to nickel and dime us. I also don't like little pieces added unless its free like it was in years past. I want a big chunk. Give me a good old expansion pack.
snapple00
February 23, 2010 at 6:36am
This is just new wave DRM. It started with EA's the Sims 3-where they explicitly said cracked versions will not be able to buy stuff from their online store.
Remember when games used to come out that were finished? Where an expansion pack was months and months away for a legit amount of new gameplay?
We are entering a new age of paying a little bit for a little bit of more game. DLC is bad.
aviaggio
February 23, 2010 at 10:22am
I agree too. This is !%$#^ retarded. If I go and spend $50-$60 on a game I want THE FULL GAME. I don't want to find out a month later that I need to spend even more money to get the stuff they purposefully left out. I really hate this crap. It's certainly not a good way to foster brand loyalty.
Looks like Bioshock 2 will be another game I will put off buying till I can get it on Steam (with all the DLC packs) for $10. Sorry 2K, you've just lost a customer.
shutout5591
February 23, 2010 at 9:13am
I agree completely. There are certain games that I look forward to paying DLC for, namely GTA IV and Mass Effect 2, where i paid for a large single player experience (30-40 hours).
Bioshock 2 was maybe 10 hours. Its hard to justify paying for DLC that should have arguably been in the original release.
nekollx
February 23, 2010 at 10:48am
to be fair, with enough people thrown at a project time becomes a moot point
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