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BioShock 3 Confirmed Despite Lack of BioShock 2

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the i-am-here-to-answer-a-question dept.

The opposable thumbs blog is reporting that despite a lack of BioShock 2, a third installment of the BioShock universe has been confirmed. "Take Two's Chairman Strauss Zelnick let the news slip during a conference call to investors. The third installment will apparently be strongly linked to the also recently-announced BioShock movie. 'Its unlikely the picture would be released coincident with BioShock 2,' Strauss said of the upcoming film. 'It's more likely it would be released coincident with BioShock 3.'"

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  1. Verb Tense is Your Friend. by Bieeanda · · Score: 4, Insightful
    'It's more likely it would be released coincident with BioShock 3.'

    The operative word here is WOULD. Not WILL, but WOULD.

    The only implication here is that the movie will take roughly two game development cycles to produce.

    1. Re:Verb Tense is Your Friend. by IthnkImParanoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      If verb tense is your friend it's likely unique in that regard. :)

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  2. Doesn't quite sound like a confirmation to me by Gat0r30y · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds more like BioShock 2 will come out well before the movie, and so if a game release was coincident with the movie release it wouldn't be BioShock2.

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    1. Re:Doesn't quite sound like a confirmation to me by Garganus · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, this is like a programmer muttering that Spore'll hit shelves right after Duke Nukem Forever, which is going GM right after the end of World War III.
      "Insider Sources: WWIII CONFIRMED!"

  3. Surprised? by hansamurai · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is anyone really surprised at this? Bioshock was very successful late last year and has been heralded as having one of the best stories in recent memory. If you would have told me there were going to be less than three games I would have been surprised, writes love trilogies, and so do consumers.

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  4. Re:BioShock is one thing... by IthnkImParanoid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    SHODAN was a great nemesis, sure, but doesn't it get old and predictable fighting the same enemy ad nauseum? (You'll be sorry when she becomes a farce and joins Bowser on a cart racing game.)

    System Shock 2 was awesome largely because you didn't know it was SHODAN until halfway through.

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  5. Re:In other words: by JebusIsLord · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the US at least: Final Fantasy 1, 2, 3 then 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12...

    of course 2 and 3 were actually 4 and 6 in Japan, so we really skipped 2, 3 and 5.

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  6. Re:In other words: by Nephilium · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yep. Leisure Suit Larry made a 3 and a 5, but never made 4.

    Nephilium

  7. Re:In other words: by Drooling+Iguana · · Score: 5, Funny

    Super Mario 64.

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  8. Re:In other words: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has there ever been a skipped number in a series of games? If there is going to be a 3, there is going to be a 2.

    Prove me wrong. The Leisure Suit Larry series. Al Lowe said there would never be a 4th game. So it went from game 3 to game 5 so he would still keep his word on that.
  9. Spaceballs by dazedNconfuzed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bioshock 3: The Search for Bioshock 2

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  10. Re:Don't worry by Spatial · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those that don't get the joke.

  11. Best story? by antdude · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think not. System Shock 2 had a better story and game.

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  12. 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 64 by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    And not only did Super Mario skip everything from 5 through 63 (SMW was 4), but it also had two 2's. SMB2: The Lost Levels was a level hack of SMB1, while SMB2: Mario Madness was a graphics hack of Doki Doki Panic.

  13. Re:In other words: by Hatta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not quite. "The missing floppies" was a joke title. Here(and here) is the real story from Al Lowe himself.

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  14. Re:In other words: by TheLoneDanger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to wikipedia, Mario appeared in 53 games before Super Mario 64. So, 64 really isn't that far off. There might be some other brief Mario cameos in other games, or games that were killed in development that had Mario as well.

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  15. Re:In other words: by Alpha+Whisky · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ha, that's nothing, Windows went from version 3.11 straight to 95.

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  16. Bioshock 2... does exist? by TheSambassador · · Score: 2, Informative

    The opposable thumbs blog is reporting that despite a lack of BioShock 2 Did people not see this?
    1. Re:Bioshock 2... does exist? by Jor-Al · · Score: 2, Informative

      You have to realize that the summary was written by ScuttleMonkey. That means you are getting something written inaccurately by a moron.