BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams will be the sequel to 2007's Game of the Year, 2K's BioShock. A video game driven with a plot so plasmatic, it goes above and beyond any director to date—especially George Lucas. Simply because few have questioned the base of BioShock; is it similar to Star Wars? And the answer is no. Nothing—not even the renderings—in this video game is forced. Yes, the gritty-underwater masterpiece lets you wield electricity and meltdown an entire Ice Age out of one hand, but that's besides the point. The dystopian city of Rapture is ruled by ADAM & EVE along with spliced up genes, mind control and tonics that boost more than you're metabolism. It's creator, Andrew Ryan, visualized his own Eden in the 1940s; one with stem cell research and phantom menaces referred to as Big Daddies. Andrew Ryan once said, "It wasn't impossible to build Rapture on the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else." A man so spasmodic and hated by the CIA and Joseph Stalin's KGB, but so motivated to build his utopia. As you enter the world of Rapture, you play as a plane crash survivor named Jake who must overcome morality. Every choice you make will decide your fate, trust no one. Your only option in this psychological horror is to do whatever it takes to survive, just remember to use your instincts as well. What is righteous and what is cruelty.
Personally, BioShock reminded me of two incredible novels. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Next by Michael Crichton. Brave New World, written in 1932 foretells the future as a Utopia where everyone is genetically procreated and pharmaceutically treated to never age. Next is a recently published novel that keeps it's readers refusing to put the book down with it's nonstop climax. It makes us realize how small the world actually is and the corruptive nature we face when dealing with genetics.
"It wasn't impossible to
build Rapture on the bottom
of the sea. It was impossible
to build it anywhere else."
-Andrew Ryan.
BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams has planned it's release to be later this year in 2009, being the most anticipated game of the year with 2K's new studio in San Francisco. Global President of 2K, Christoph Hartmann says it's possible for BioShock to become the next Hexology, as long as they are careful and don't let their innovation cash in and turn into the unfortunate outcome of the Matrix trilogy. Below is a teaser of the upcoming release of BioShock 2, a cut scene that the recently released PS3 version contained.
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