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Bioshock PS3 Demo Coming October 2nd

Posted by Soulskill on from the early-look dept.

Kotaku reports that a demo for the much-awaited PS3 port of Bioshock will be available on October 2nd. 2K Games launched a new interactive website to promote the game, which comes out on October 21st in the US. GiantBomb took a brief look at the PS3 version, saying, "... quality seems perfectly intact. The PS3 seems to be perfectly capable of rendering Rapture just as it appeared in 2007. The main changes you'll see with this version include things like Survivor mode, which is a new, harder difficulty setting. ... the game also has all of the downloadable updates that rolled out to 360 owners." 1Up notes that the full version will require a 5GB install, and they made a comparison video.

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  1. Is that even in HD? by Molochi · · Score: 1, Troll

    There's a linked video showing the xbox360 and the ps3 version side by side. Both of those videos have chunky aliasing like they plugged each box into a DVR and recorded at 800x600 or something... Maybe 720P, looks that bad.

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  2. Re:Wow, the ps3 sure is doing well. by anomaly256 · · Score: 0, Troll

    These days saying that the PS3 has no exclusives is about as accurate as saying the Xbox only has FPS games.

    Well, no good exclusives worth rushing out and paying for.

  3. I'll get it by rarel · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm gonna get it. I hesitated a long time between getting a PS3 or a 360, and went for PS3 eventually because all I read about the 360 made it sound like a maintenance nightmare (RRoD, overheating, etc.)
    One of the few factors going for the 360 was BioShock. I didn't want to get it for PC because of the DRM/Activation fiasco.
    I know there's DRM on consoles too, but well, contrary to PC games, it's to be expected since a console is a proprietary system by definition. I have no problem with that.
    I'm glad I went with the PS and now that BioShock is coming on that one as well, I don't even have to second-guess this choice. And apparently they improved the difficulty and stuff (although admittedly the extent of such improvements are still TBD). It's looking good, imho.