If you've been waiting to get into the Bioshock series before Bioshock Infinite, this is a great way to do it! Bioshock: Ultimate Rapture Edition is out today for the Xbox 360 and PS3, and will be available to download on PSN later today. Official details below!
UPDATE: It appears this bundle will be a retail-only release for now.
New York, NY - January 15, 2013 - 2K Games, Irrational Games and 2K
Marin announced today that BioShock®: Ultimate Rapture Edition is
now available in North America. Before exploring the world of
Columbia in the upcoming worldwide release of BioShock Infinite on
March 26, 2013, fans of the franchise and newcomers alike can
experience everything that Rapture has to offer with the BioShock:
Ultimate Rapture Edition for $29.99 (MSRP) for the Xbox 360® video
game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®3
computer entertainment system. The BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition
includes the critically-acclaimed BioShock, BioShock 2 and add-on
content for both games valued at more than $40. 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 gamers ready for the next chapter
in the BioShock universe.
Originally released in 2007 and winner of multiple Game of the Year
awards, BioShock is a "genetically enhanced" first-person shooter set
in Rapture, a decaying art deco underwater utopia torn apart by civil
war. Caught between powerful forces and hunted down by genetically
modified "splicers" and deadly security systems, players have to come
to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful
technology, fascinating characters and morality defining choices. To
make it to the end, players can turn everything they encounter into a
weapon, biologically modify their body with Plasmids, hack devices
and security systems, upgrade weapons, craft new ammo variants, and
experiment with different battle techniques. No encounter ever plays
out the same and no two gamers will play BioShock the same way.
Originally released in 2010, BioShock 2 features an unsettling
storyline, dazzling visual design and the evolution of the
genetically enhanced shooter gameplay. Set almost a decade after a
grueling civil war consumed the once magnificent city of Rapture,
evil reverberates through the halls and a wickedness once thought
gone forever returns along the Atlantic seaboard. An unspeakable
series of kidnappings from local seaside communities by an unseen
monster leads to the repopulation of Little Sisters in Rapture's
failed utopia under the ocean. Players must step into the boots of
one of gaming's most iconic characters, the Big Daddy, as they
traverse the fallen city, fending off attacks from an army of
genetically modified Splicers, while searching for escape and the key
to their survival.
BioShock 2 also features multiplayer modes that provide fans with an
engrossing prequel experience that expands upon the fiction of
Rapture's origins. Set during the year before Rapture's descent into
chaos, players assume the role of a Plasmid test subject for Sinclair
Solutions, a key provider of Plasmids and Tonics in the underwater
city that was first explored in BioShock. Players will enter into
areas from the original title as they struggle to gain superiority
and fight for survival in franticly paced battles.
BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition is rated M for Mature by the ESRB.
