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BioShock length revealed

Some minor spoilers ahead: It's been recently revealed that BioShock is around twenty hours long. Speaking at a BioShock screening at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Take Two Interactive Europe PR Manager Adrian Lawton stated that "We've being doing a lot of review sessions recently with press guys. Most people are coming in around twenty hours," Lawton stated. He also revealed that there will be two alternate endings to the game.

BIadestarX6850d ago (Edited 6850d ago )

How can a game with such graphics fit 20 hours of game play on a single DVD9? is it magic? And yet... Epic can't fit a few Maps?... mmm... I wonder... if Sony's is paying Epic to perform some drama.

eXplotion6850d ago (Edited 6850d ago )

stop crying and dont compare bioshock to the greatest FPS coming out this year...

UT3 will pwn halo 3 and bioshock.. its runnin better than gears on 360

FordGTGuy6850d ago (Edited 6850d ago )

Thats funny because Bioshock is a FPS and has been getting perfect and just under perfect scores.

@Ri0tSquad

Its already been said that Bioshock is unique in every area you go to but every game reuses textures for floors to walls and even tables, books, and etc. Also UT3 multiplayer maps will most likely reuse the textures it will use in its singleplayer so your arguement is void. Not to mention singleplayer levels are usually alot bigger and use alot more textures, coding, and AI which all take up space on the medium.

Ri0tSquad6850d ago

There using the same textures or same areas for the game probaly and plus in bioshock you have to remember its all single player no multiplayer. In UT3 theres a single player campaign and a multiplayer mode.

BIadestarX6850d ago

Exactly Ri0tSquad.... you see.. it's common knowledge.. that what make large games is CGI Movies and sound... not really game data... didnt know you read about how much Heavenly Sword 10GB only on sound FX? not much sound effect on multiplayer games.. and definelly no CGI... and most of the multiplayer maps are using the same characters and textures from the single player mode....
The facts is that what you say is pure assumption....

Gizmo_Logix6850d ago

Not another dumb DVD9 comment. Understand this. Blu-ray's benefits will become more clear as time goes on. It's not just dumbed down to game length. It also effects unique texture, audio (some compressed and some not).

JasonPC360PS3Wii6850d ago

Also Bioshock is useing Unreal tech and they seem to be using it better than Epic.

InMyOpinion6850d ago

What surprises me is that no two textures look alike. Incredible that it's 20 hours long, I would have guessed 12-15.

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Dr Pepper6850d ago

Two different endings = more than 20 hours (and much replay value) :)

COCK6850d ago

this game was very scary it made me piss my pants n gave me nightmares off me having sex with a pig

Daxx6850d ago

And I'm now putting you on my ignore list.

sjappie6850d ago

you and your fixation with animal sex.

Dr Pepper6850d ago

I just hope it's not like Condemned's "alternate" endings (for those who played the game, you'll know what I'm talking about). No disrespect to Condemned though, it was an awesome game and is one of my favorites.

ALIEN6850d ago

It sound cool. I wonder what ending will be the best?

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Next ‘BioShock’ Game Changes Leaders After Development Turmoil

The fourth game in the ‘BioShock’ series has been in development for more than a decade

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toxic-inferno287d ago

Bioshock is one of my favourites franchises. I love all 3 games and have played each several times. I even have a room in my house that is loosely decorated around the theme of Bioshock (with a Lighthouse, coral models and postcards styled as though they are from both Rapture and Columbus).

And yet I am going to find it extremely difficult to get even remotely excited about any future episode in the series after all the problems this has had in its development cycle.

Leave the franchise alone. Remaster them again if you have to. Then put whatever talent you have to use on something brand new.

Furesis287d ago

Since ken levine isn't involved i'm not surprised what's going on. i'm more excited for his next game which looks like bioshock. Yet he still works under take2 and they are making bioshock 4 without him, strange situation.

toxic-inferno287d ago

Yes. Judas. Looks brilliant, but it's one of those games that seems to never have had a release date. Instead it's had release windows that keep getting pushed back.

Once it's ready, I'll be there for it though. Ken Levine is an excellent developer.

I get the feeling he dissolved Irrational Games simply so that 2k couldn't tell him what to do. It seems it will pay off, but I feel sorry for those who worked as part of Irrational before it was dissolved, who hadn't independently made a name for themselves.

ActualWhiteMan287d ago

He didn’t even want to make 2, that’s why they did it without him.

Rebel_Scum287d ago

tbh it wouldnt be a Bioshock game without development hell. They all had it.

Michiel1989287d ago

bioshock 2 was 2.5 years after 1, so much of a development hell it was......

-Foxtrot287d ago

"Remaster them again if you have to"

Well apparently they were doing a remake but that got cancelled

Relientk77287d ago

It sucks this game is in development hell because I love BioShock and would love a 4th game. I hope it turns out great, but I guess we'll see.

P_Bomb287d ago

Love Bioshock. It’s too bad what’s going on. At least we have Judas.

Yui_Suzumiya287d ago (Edited 287d ago )

It's been in development hell since 2014. This is nothing new. It saddens me because it's one of my favorite series. At this point, Judas may end up releasing first.

BABI-PANGPANG286d ago

Bioshock 4 (if it ever comes out) will probably still look and play like a Bioshock game, but without Kevin, it might miss that spark that made the originals so special. Honestly, Judas might end up feeling more like the real spiritual successor.

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Netflix's BioShock Film Still In Development But With A Reduced Budget

Console Creatures writes, "The BioShock film at Netflix is still happening but with a reduced budget."

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just_looken658d ago

Remember there past attempts at game based show's i do heck i still remember that teenage resident evil trash fire.

anast657d ago

ha. I almost forgot about that.

Jin_Sakai660d ago

Might as well just cancel it.

just_looken658d ago

Unless its batwoman were they right it off

porkChop660d ago

It's 10 years too late for a BioShock film. The world of Rapture would have been perfect for a film. It's actually a good candidate for proper utilization of 3D, for increased depth rather than bullshit popping out of the screen. It could really show off the underwater city that way. But BioShock as a brand is so irrelevant these days that a film just doesn't make sense. Especially considering it would need a big budget and top notch effects to really take advantage of the IP.

gold_drake660d ago

i agree on the bigger budget. all the cgi they'd need for the background.

but i think it would work better as a show. a movie would be too short to establish the story

TheNamelessOne660d ago

Netflix greenlights anything, so that shows me very little faith in the project. Enough to just crap something out as they're, more and more, known to do.

badkolo659d ago

its where b movies go to live, its run by democrats , dont expect anything good from netflix

Knightofelemia660d ago (Edited 660d ago )

I'll laugh if it turns out to be better then the Borderlands movie

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