Speaking of which, BioShock 2 seems to utilize the language of the Little Sisters to describe Adam-hunting. When you adopt a Little Sister, you go out searching for resource-bloated corpses, known as "angels." If you remember the first game, it's an oft-repeated reference. There's a real sense of deja vu to watching the Adam extraction process. With each step of the Adam hunt in your hands, it's like watching a film scene told through the eyes of another character. You've likely seen this unfold -- Little Sister shows up and starts extracting under a Big Daddy's vigilant eye -- but not from this perspective.
Drills and Plasmids, a Deadly Combo
It's not just different because you're in the shoes of a Big Daddy. In the demo, the Little Sister encounters an angel and starts drawing Adam from the corpse. Suddenly a group of Splicers hear her and start swooping in to steal the precious material. You might've witnessed such a scenario in the first game. Here, I watched as the Big Daddy set up a plasmid combo that combined fiery attacks with the Cyclone Rush ability. With a ring of flames and a tornado designed to blow enemies into the inferno, the Splicers went down quickly. That's when someone else showed up.
A Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Sibling?
Rapture's T-1000?
Big Sisters are the new villains of BioShock 2. They're faster and nimbler than Big Daddies, plus they've got the same Adam-extracting needles as Little Sisters. Details were scant at the event, but 2K seems to be evoking a "super villainess" aura on par with the upgraded villain of "Terminator 2." I'm guessing that as a Big Daddy you might compete with Big Sisters to capture Adam and adopt Little Sisters, but that's conjecture at this point. As the Big Sister showed up, the demo ended with a cliffhanger.
2K crammed a lot into a five-minute demo. BioShock 2 certainly looks just as impressive in scale and scope as its predecessor. I'm curious to see how the 2K Marin team can continue BioShock's serpentine storyline while providing an equally enthralling action experience. It's tough to tell if the team has found the right balance, but so far I've seen little that would disappoint fans of the original.
