Why Does Bioshock 2 Have Multiplayer?

[Sir_Brizz]

Destructoid got the poop on why Bioshock 2 even has multiplayer, straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. They asked Jordan Thomas, 2K Marin creative director about that, as well as other questions about the multiplayer experience.

"Well, 2K sought the opinions of players from all walks of life, who game for different reasons. And we found that a lot of people craved an extension of the experience, that to them, multiplayer was a way to keep their favorite games alive," he answers. "And since we knew we'd be focusing on the game's single player legacy internally, the choice to partner up naturally followed. "I wouldn't call the decision easy, in the sense that (just like playing a Big Daddy, say) we knew that it'd be turned into a sound bite initially, and critiqued at about that level of surface engagement, with no explanation forthcoming for a while. But we felt that if, again, we took the question seriously -- "what does BioShock mean to people, and how could some of that set of sensations be expanded to involve others?" --then we could win some people over, and make others who were crying out for it very happy."

 

[kamrinjacobs]

It is good but not great, gunplay is average.As you level up, you'll begin discovering more and more of the character you're playing as story. Hopefully this will be able to help if you're going to be playing tons of games to reach level 40.

 

[elmuerte]

Multiplayer... something I haven't cared for for quite some years.
Too many asshats.