2K Games announced today that the Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack*,
the first downloadable content for the award-winning BioShock®2,
is now available for download from both the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for
the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and
Games for Windows–LIVE for 400 Microsoft Points, and from the
PlayStation®Network for $4.99. Future expansions into the world of BioShock
2 are slated to arrive over the coming months and will continue
to expand upon the stories of the denizens of Rapture.
Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack, the first of several
planned downloadable packages, contains a number of customization
features that will allow players to further their character’s
development in BioShock 2’s multiplayer modes and provide
a deeper multiplayer experience. The pack includes:
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Rank increase to level 50 with rank rewards
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New playable characters - Louie McGraff and Oscar Calraca
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20 new trials**
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A
third weapon upgrade for each weapon
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Five additional masks**
**Some items are only available after a player achieves a rank of 41
or higher.
Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack is multiplayer content that
requires Gold membership for Xbox LIVE® subscribers. In the coming
months, 2K Games will also publish downloadable extensions of the single
player experience that will provide new insights into the world of
Rapture. These packages will include more narrative, new tools and
challenges that will extend the lore and fiction of the failed utopia
under the sea.
About BioShock 2
BioShock 2’s multiplayer modes provide fans with an
engrossing prequel experience that expands upon the fiction of Rapture’s
origins. Set during the year before Rapture’s descent into chaos,
players assume the role of a Plasmid test subject for Sinclair
Solutions, a key provider of Plasmids and Tonics in the underwater city
that was first explored in BioShock. Players will enter
into areas from the original title as they struggle to gain superiority
and fight for survival in franticly paced battles.
The single player mode serves as a sequel to the original game and
provides fans with an unsettling storyline, dazzling visual design and
the evolution of the genetically enhanced shooter gameplay.
Set
almost a decade after a grueling civil war consumed the once magnificent
city of Rapture, evil reverberates through the halls and a wickedness
once thought gone forever returns along the Atlantic seaboard. An
unspeakable series of kidnappings from local seaside communities by an
unseen monster leads to the repopulation of Little Sisters in Rapture’s
failed utopia under the ocean. Players must step into the boots of one
of gaming's most iconic characters, the Big Daddy, as they traverse
through the fallen city, fending off attacks from an army of genetically
modified Splicers, while searching for escape and the key to their
survival.
BioShock 2 has already shipped over three million units
worldwide just four weeks after its release - cementing its place as one
of 2010’s blockbuster games. Additionally, the original BioShock
has now sold more than four million units globally since its release in
August 2007, bringing the total sales of the franchise to seven million
units.
BioShock 2 is currently available for Xbox 360,
PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows-LIVE
and is rated M for Mature by the ESRB. For more information on BioShock
2 please visit www.bioshock2game.com,
www.cultofrapture.com
and www.somethinginthesea.com.
* Requires standalone BioShock 2 product in order to be played.
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global developer, marketer and publisher of interactive entertainment
software games for the PC, PlayStation®3 and PlayStation®2 computer
entertainment systems, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, Xbox 360®
video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii™, Nintendo DS™,
iPhone™ and iPod® touch. The Company publishes and develops products
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