Not to be overshadowed by BioWare’s latest effort to depict Mass Effect 2 in one epic cover, 2K Games has released the box art for BioShock 2 — and it doesn’t win any points for originality or cleanliness. Just like the first game’s cover, it features Big Daddy (this time he’s you!) and Little Sister (not you). Only now, everything’s behind cracked, grimy glass and the logo’s covered in barnacles. Eww.
You can lay your eyes on high-res versions of the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC covers for the sequel in the gallery below. You might want to put on some rubber gloves and grab a can of Scrubbing Bubbles before you click on ‘em, though.
Having already taken a brief tour of Rapture through the eyes of a Big Daddy a few months back, we were okay with the fact that BioShock 2 looked and seemed to play very much like the original game — only this time encased in a huge pressurized diving suit. Now that we’ve played through a full area of the game, our initial assessment more or less holds up, but that’s not to say there aren’t several noteworthy — and even surprising — changes and additions to expect when the game arrives next spring.
Warning: We’ve done our best to keep what you’re about to read as spoiler-free as possible, but the extremely sensitive should tread cautiously beyond this point.
If you diligently avoided last week’s GameTrailers TV due to all the BioShock 2 spoilers, the trailer you see above can help provide you with some water-soaked gameplay — sans all the direct information. We feel it’s safe to tell you that 2K Games gave this clip the title “Siren Alley” because of an area in Rapture of the same name, a place that we never got to see the in the first game.
Even if you don’t watch the video above, you should take one thing from it: The “worldwide embargo” gets lifted this Thursday and a flood of information on the game is sure to follow. If you’re really trying to remain spoiler-free on BioShock 2, now may be a good time to go dark.
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