BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition available Jan 14

[Iron Woode]

I will be picking this up when its available here.

EDIT: looks like it for PS3 and Xbox for now.

Whether you're a hardcore BioShock fan looking to add to your collection or a Rapture noob hoping to get caught up before exploring the world of Columbia in BioShock Infinite, the valued-priced BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition may be just for you.

As announced by 2K Games, Irrational and 2K Marin today, fans of the franchise and newcomers alike can experience everything that Rapture has to offer with the BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition. Available in North America on January 14, 2013, BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition will carry a MSRP of $29.99 for both the 360 and PS3 while offering up BioShock, BioShock 2 and lots of add-on content for both games. It also includes a trip to the never-before-seen Museum of Orphaned Concepts, providing a rare look at early concept art and character models that never made it into BioShock.

In addition to BioShock and BioShock 2, the BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition includes more than $40 of add-on content for both games:

• Museum of Orphaned Concepts: Take a tour of a never-before-seen BioShock museum and view early concept art, character models and more set within the halls of Rapture.

• Plasmids Pack: Includes four additional Plasmids and Gene Tonics – Sonic Boom, EVE Saver, Vending Expert and Machine Buster – for use in BioShock.

• Challenge Rooms Pack: Previously exclusive to PS3™ and now available for Xbox 360 for the first time, the pack tests the player’s mettle by requiring them to utilize the skills learned while traversing the halls of Rapture to survive three separate puzzle rooms in BioShock.

• Sinclair Solutions Tester: Contains a number of customization features that allow players to further their character’s development in BioShock 2 multiplayer modes and provides a deeper multiplayer experience.

• Rapture Metro: Includes six additional multiplayer maps, an additional multiplayer gameplay mode and a rank increase to level 50 for BioShock 2 multiplayer.

• The Protector Trials: Features frantic combat and fast-paced action designed to push players’ mastery of weapons and Plasmids in a BioShock 2 single-player experience spread across six maps.

• Minerva’s Den: A substantial narrative experience that puts players in the role Subject Sigma and introduces new characters, locations and mystery to the world of Rapture in BioShock 2. Set in a new environment, Rapture Central Computing, Minerva’s Den adds a gripping new storyline to extend the BioShock 2 experience.

Also included is an exclusive collectable sticker pack from BioShock Infinite’s world of Columbia to get you ready for the next chapter in the BioShock universe, which will hit North America on March 26, 2013. The BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition is expected to be available in some international territories "at a later date".

I was so looking forward for this on PC.

:awe:

 

[gothamhunter]

Interesting...I originally thought there wasn't that much to the edition with the original details, but it looks like a nice complete package.

 

[Barfo]

Why do they launch video games on Mondays?

 

[Iron Woode]

Interesting...I originally thought there wasn't that much to the edition with the original details, but it looks like a nice complete package.

it sure does.

which is why I have been waiting for it. I figured they would have the PC version for sale.

I feel a little disappointed.

 

[Geosurface]

Doesn't sound like anything I haven't already played.

I was hoping it had some sort of graphical upgrades or something maybe.

 

[blackened23]

The minerva's den DLC for bioshock 2 is actually really good. If the price is right, it should be worth checking out for the 3 people that don't have both games already.

 

[AdamK47]

It just another rebundle package publishers love to dish out to get re-exposure for their existing products.

 

[UberNeuman]

I couldn't get into BioShock 2. I hate stories, movies, games that retcon the previous edition so they can pump out another product...

I'll probably at some point try the game again, but it didn't hit me the way the first BioShock did....

 

[blackened23]

B2 is slow to pick up the pace, but is fantastic once you get into it. I really like B2's combat much more than B1.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Doesn't sound like anything I haven't already played.

I was hoping it had some sort of graphical upgrades or something maybe.

Making new games just take too much effort, it's easier just to re-release old stuff as new. Complainers branded as overly entitled (tm) assholes by gaming not-journalism circle.

 

[blackened23]

Making new games just take too much effort, it's easier just to re-release old stuff as new. Complainers branded as overly entitled (tm) assholes by gaming not-journalism circle.

If the original game was good I don't have much issue with a sequel that has minor improvements, better graphics, etc. One good example that comes to mind are the AC series, which I really love: AC2 and onwards aren't completely new games, you can hop into AC: brotherhood or AC3 and feel comfortable; yet they each added small iterations of improvements to story and gameplay. So its familiar, but its still cool and more important they are still good games.

I feel this way about B2. B2 admittedly is slow to pick up steam, but is REALLY good once it does. I really love the combat in B2, as mentioned earlier.

Anyway, Bioshock infinite will be a new beast and we won't be in rapture any longer. Rapture does get old after a while, i'm looking forward to see what infinite has.