BioShock PS3 to get exclusive DLC

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 17th July 2008
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BioShock PS3 will feature exclusive Challenge Rooms as downloadable content.

BioShock PS3 will feature exclusive Challenge Rooms as downloadable content.

2K Games has announced as part of the company's E3 2008 press conference that the PlayStation 3 version of Bioshock which is currently underway will be complemented by some new platform-exclusive content.

BioShock was first released late last year for the Xbox 360 and PC platforms, scoring an excellence award and 10/10 score in our comprehensive gameplay review, as well as ranking in at Second Place in our Top Ten Games of 2007.

Though the game has long been available on the PC and Xbox 360, this is the first time the game will be available on the PlayStation 3 console.

Speaking at the E3 2008 press conference, 2K games confirmed that a PlayStation 3 port is underway and that a small team of the original developers from the 2K Boston studio have put together some new content in the form of downloadable 'Challenge Rooms'.

These Challenge Rooms will apparently be small, self-contained rooms accessible from the main menu. Each room will force the player to progress through a series of puzzles which are designed to be solved using Plasmids. The focus of these Challenge Rooms will be very much on puzzle-solving instead of combat.

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Quote wuyanxu 17th July 2008, 10:19
that's just not on. where's the PC DLCs? how much have Sony payed them?

us PC gamers have to sit though the dumbed down RPG elements, horrible DRM and buggy mouse control, and get nothing in return?
Quote BlackMage23 17th July 2008, 10:20
Hasn't everyone played this game by now
Quote AlexB 17th July 2008, 10:21
Except getting it a year before the PS3 players...
Quote lewchenko 17th July 2008, 10:30
I played it on the PC... beautiful graphics, but shoddy mouse controls.

Great game.

I will be buying this for my PS3 though. Would love to replay it and maybe explore more of the stories in the Rapture world.... from the comfort of my lounge.

Lets hope the DLC is actually free and not 'paid for'.. otherwise I'll just be buying the game on its own.
Quote Paradigm Shifter 17th July 2008, 11:12
So, essentially, they're trying to make a Bioshock equivalent of Portal available as DLC?
Quote M4RTIN 17th July 2008, 11:17
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Originally Posted by Paradigm Shifter
So, essentially, they're trying to make a Bioshock equivalent of Portal available as DLC?

that's the first thing i though too, portal, just not really as good. plus it probably will cost more for this DLC than just getting portal off steam, such is the way of maintaining profit on consoles
Quote ParaHelix.org 17th July 2008, 14:40
Shameful thing doing this to good games, let's hope it dosn't get as bad a Microsoft.
Quote ParaHelix.org 17th July 2008, 14:41
Oh, I almost forgot, PC RULES FTW! (supposing you can build a half decent one).
Quote themax 17th July 2008, 19:22
Rather than the DLC it's getting, I'm more excited that they are adding Trophy support. As long developers continue to push Trophy support in future titles like this it will help legitamize the feature as standard like Xbox Live achievements which is good for PS3 owners (note I'm impartial to Achievements but Trophys will level the playing field of which version to get now between PS3/Xbox titles in the future). Some folks are also saying the game has Home support but I am skeptical honestly.
Quote supaste 17th July 2008, 19:37
I just got my copy today for 360. Picked up the tin case special edition for just £15 and that on top of my free xbox 360 that I won from the kind people at Pepsi is equal to pure awesomeness.
Quote docodine 18th July 2008, 07:54
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Originally Posted by lewchenko
I played it on the PC... beautiful graphics, but shoddy mouse controls.

Shoddy Xbox controls as well.

I wish it was an adventure game, Myst style. I love the story, the graphics, and even the decor, but everything related to firing a weapon is complete torture. I consider myself fairly decent at console shooters, and I couldn't shoot one thing in Bioshock. There is something wrong here...
Quote SNIPERMikeUK 18th July 2008, 22:27
I was so annoyed with the DRM when I came to trading this game-in, as was told it had to be sealed, so I returned it to the store of purchase got a sealed copy replacement and sold it for almost what I payed for it, if we all did this shops would have to return copies and maybe, just maybe they might make a better protection system?
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