The “Break it Down” Blog

You probably already knew that, but the part of this news that should blow your skirt up is:

• Director: Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean)
• Writer: John Logan (Academy Award-nominated writer of Gladiator, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd)

For the folks that aren’t familiar with the game, it takes place in the 1950s/1960s alternate future and begins with your airplane crashing in the ocean. You swim over to a light house sticking out of the water and soon find it’s the entrance to Rapture; an underwater utopia created by this power-crazed guy wanting to create a world/civilization that could exist with “no limits”. So biological engineering and DNA tampering ran rampant until the utopian society eventually destroyed itself. There are twists and turns to the plot and overall I hear a truely badass game… I haven’t played it yet (still waiting for the PS3 version).

So yea… looks like they are taking the Triple-A hit game and going to turn it into a pretty badass franchise (Verbinski loves his franchises). BioShock 2 is already slated for a late 2009 release, so there will be plenty of content to work with.