I’ve been back for a while, but I’ve also been too lazy to update the blog , I wont be able to update again for a few weeks, got a lot going on.

I’m going on holidays for a few days , so I won’t be updating the blog, unless I get some net access. I will however be updating my Twitter as much as I can, so follow me and see what I’m up to.

Edit:I’ve just realized that I haven’t posted my review on the new maps for World at War, I’ll do that when I have the time, I’m pretty flat out for the next week.

Gametrailers has an exclusive video of BioShock2 gameplay, looks pretty awesome, check it out!.

BioShock2 logo

Finally the 1.4 patch is released for pc, here are the notes.

* 3 new Multiplayer maps: Kneedeep, Nightfire, Station!
* Nazi Zombies map with more weapons, Perks-a-Cola machines, and electroshock defenses: Verrückt!
* Improved spawning logic.
* Auto balancing improvements. Players are no longer auto balanced while completing objectives.
* Mods: IWD’s can be placed in the usermaps folder.
* Mods: Hold Breath / Sprint functions as intended.
* Mods: MissingAssets.csv is generated when maps are run with developer set to 1.
* Fixed lag caused by shooting at tanks.
* All rifle grenades fired during the first 15 seconds of Search & Destroy will be duds.
* Players who equip a Bouncing Betty and melee teammates in Hardcore game modes are now credited with a team kill penalty.
* Players are now deducted 200 points for team killing the bomb planter/defuser in Hardcore Search & Destroy.
* Martyrdom no longer causes direct impact deaths in Hardcore modes.
* “Bayonet jumping” has been disabled.

Once I finish downloading (30 minutes), and play for a few hours, I’ll post my review. I can’t wait to get some co-op action happening.

New Nightfire map

Pc Gamer have the scoop on Bioshock 2 in their 200th issue (Congratulations PC Gamer Magazine!), check it out here.

“You’re the first Big Daddy ever made, and the most powerful. You were built to use any of their weapons, not just one. You have all of their resilience but little of their sloth. And your suit, unlike theirs, allows the use of Plasmids.”

Little sister

“You’re the first Big Daddy ever made, and the most powerful. You were built to use any of their weapons, not just one. You have all of their resilience but little of their sloth. And your suit, unlike theirs, allows the use of Plasmids. You’re the reason every other Big Daddy was crippled and brainwashed:you were too good. The team wont talk about what you did to make your creator – presumably Dr Suchong – abort his plans  to amek any more creatures like you. “Suffice it to say they decided to simplify,” Jordan says. Jordan designed Bioshock’s Fort Frolic level, a machine interlude in which a pul crooner forces you to murder his former friends and construct a work of art from photos of their corpses. He also designed the only game level to warrant an entire feature in Pc Gamer: Theif 3’s unwisely combined asylum and orphanage, Shalebridge Cradle (PCG 146). Bioshock 2 is the first game he’s been put in charge of, so we should all take a moment to set our expectations unreasonably high. “Both of those levels were a structured attack on expectations,” Jordan recalls, “so that the player wouldn’t get numbed to a template. For Bioshock 2, obviously those lessons remain with me. I would hate for the player to ever feel like they’re starting to predict us.”

Happily, I don’t have to do much predicting. Jordan and his team at 2K Marin are stingy on plot details for spoiler reasons, but forthcomming about everything else they’re working on. Most of what defines Bioshock 2 stems from the fact that you’re in the heavy steel boots of a rogue Big Daddy. It determines who you fight, ……”

You play as this Big Daddy apparently

Forums have been launched on the CoDCreators site, instead of that sad note saying the site has gone offline . So everyone sign up and have some fun! .