IGN: Bioshock 2 Multiplayer Impressions

t’s admittedly still a little odd to think of BioShock as a multiplayer experience considering such a component wasn’t part of the original, but it’s being presented as a significant piece of the upcoming sequel. Instead of just tossing together a few deathmatch modes, the suite appears to be packed with features, including a progressive level up system, character customization, and game mechanics tailored to the BioShock universe.

As you probably know if you’ve been following along, in BioShock 2 you play as a Big Daddy. Well, that’s not something that carries over into its online sections. Instead, the setting for the multiplayer part of the game is a time period even before the events of the first game, when people were running rampant in Rapture and genetically modifying themselves with little to no regard for personal safety. You can pick a character model (a welder, a housewife, a football player, and more) and then pick and choose which weapons and plasmids to bring into battle with you. Other options include swapping out different masks (goat, pink feather, rabbit, eagle, the list goes on) and picking between a variety of melee weapons including trophies, wrenches, and candlesticks.