That had some real consequences for poor Mr. Her background is based in part on that of John Stuart Mill who was isolated from other children, specifically because his father wanted to groom a genius-level intellect to promote his philosophy. Would you say you relate to any of Rapture’s characters?ĭoctor Sofia Lamb is based on a suite of utilitarian and other sort of altruistic philosophers that I have always found interesting. Sofia Lamb is the new villain who has taken control of Rapture and comes from an opposite school of thought from Ryan. He helped to construct Sinclair Solutions home plasmid trials that gave rise to all the splicing in our multiplayer component and he serves as one of the player’s story guides, more or less working for himself, he intends to sell Rapture and all of its miracles to the surface. He was a very low key guy who liked to walk between worlds, and for him, there was never too dirty a job. One is Augustus Sinclair who founded Sinclair Solutions, and unlike Fontaine and Ryan he never had aspirations to control the city. Will we see any other familiar characters?ĭefinitely. We have seen Tenenbaum and have heard references to Andrew Ryan. It was a good foundation for the story to me.Ī few characters from the first BioShock have made appearances or have been referenced in BioShock 2. It seemed to me that taking that dynamic and allowing both those characters and the player, the Daddy character, to discover the human trapped inside the monster. I empathize with them and I know a lot of people who did in the first game. I think that they’ve had a nightmarish and very unique childhood in which there’s nothing like it in any game I could think of. I really loved the idea of former Little Sisters as characters. I thought there was some emotional power there that if you lent it additional humanity could become a powerful motive of its own. For me, given that I was brought out to help seed the Marin studio from existing 2K Boston and Australia, I really always wanted to center the story around these characters, mostly because in the father daughter dynamic there’s something very primal that you can see instinctively in the first game, regardless of whether you speak the language of the version of the game you’re playing. When brainstorming, blue sky is what we call it, everything is entertained. When choosing a protagonist was the Big Daddy the first to come to mind, or were there other ideas thrown around? For me personally, I think BioShock 2 is a place where we can use what the players know from the first game, the schools of thought that were explored and the philosophical side of the game, and provide contrast, provide a new surprise and a new way of thinking and hopefully take it to a similar extreme. There’s a lot of ways in which Rapture can speak to a different protagonist in a different story. It’s a setting unlike any other and is something like say, Silent Hill, or any of the other games in which setting is character. Why create a sequel?ĢK at large felt that Rapture was very fertile and had the possibility of very different stories that come out of the utopian to dystopian fiction there.
The first BioShock was a pretty solid game on its own. Read on to find out how the sequel came to fruition, why play as a Big Daddy, how multiplayer entered the equation and more. At our hands-on session, Game Informer had the opportunity to chat with 2K Marin’s Jordan Thomas, creative director of BioShock 2.
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