It's up on steam for pre-order, so who's getting it? You currently get bioshock 1 for free when you pre-order...

Well, I now have a spare Steam copy of Bioshock 1...
If anyone would like to make use of it, let me know. First come first served.

I will order it after I get paid. I loved the first one.

Advertising posters have been put up in some tube stations.

If you insist...

I'll be buying it as soon as it comes out. I loved the first one, and I hope this one is as good.

I need to finish the first one

When i do get it i'll get a disk rather than a DDL so it can keep the other one company on the shelf



yours wecrookie

Cant wait. Although I just got Mass Effect 2 and the missus just got me Borderlands for my birthday so I'm on game overload atm

I have pre-ordered it.

I downloaded it this morning. Will try and have a go this evening.

Just thought I'd post my experiences.

Having waited for this sequel with nothing but optimism since it was announced, I am exceptionally disappointed. The install went okay, the least one can expect from a video game to be honest, so I can heartily recommend that part of the game. First start up was fine up until GFWL reared its head; now I'd been expecting this, and as Dawn of War 2 had given me few problems I expected to be able to run without a hitch. Alas, it was not to be. First of all, it wouldn't recognise my account. Fine, I'll reset my password and have another go. This process takes three hours. Now my internet is hardly reliable, but considering Steam and Hotmail were chugging along just fine, I cannot comprehend how the hell GFWL was taking so long to do its thing (when it wasn't timing out). It doesn't help that GFWL has the least intuitive interface since fisher price went into nuclear fission kits with Mandarin instructions painted on the backs of horny bull elephants. How on earth can Microsoft get it so wrong? I've heard virtually nothing but praise for Xbox Live, and Steam is damn good, are they incapable of imitating their current success? Or at least shamelessly copying someone elses?

Anyway, after much wailing and nashing of teeth, I get GFWL working. Oh look, an update that will let me use my widescreen monitor (why that slipped past quality control is beyond me). Dowloading...for about an hou-oh, you've crashed, and I now need to reboot, fan-tucking-fastic. Anyway, eventually (read: The next morning) GFWL gets the game patched (no other way to do that at this time), so I start playing. 10 minutes in, the game crashes. Now unlike the original bioshock, which crashed for two specific reasons (namely the medical pavilion glitch and deciding that my sound card smelled every now and again), this crash was without reason. It wasn't my sound card, as that kind of crash always freezes my pc entirely, it was just 'Bioshock 2 has stopped working'. My drivers are up to date, I don't have any intrusive software running, I don't own any illegal software, it just decides to crash. Okay, fine, so I will play and save exceptionally often. Fine.

It would seem not. At one point, still less than an hour into the game, saving caused the game to crash. I will not be trying to play this unfinished piece of tripe again today; I don't want high blood pressure. Suffice to say that my experience with Bioshock 2 for pc has been awful; I would have been less angry if it had just failed to work altogether, as at least there would have been an arbitary reason for it to do so, something that I could have fixed/bought/summoned from the pits of Hell. We're told that pc piracy is rampant, costing the industry millions, leaving no alternative but to utilise draconian anti-piracy measures (and release unfinished, untested software it seems), but if this is how they're championing their cause, I'm struggling to find reasons not to hoist up the jolly rodger; not because I want my games for free, but because I really couldn't care less about a company that releases such tripe, and so have no reason to secure their future after being punished as a legitimate consumer. I won't do that of course; I do prefer to live within the law, and in the end it's just a game, but still, if I'm considering it, others must be doing it for the same reason.

In short, buy it on a console, the pc version is nothing but a fancy drinks coaster.

Am I alone in my woes?

Possibly. It has been rock stable for me. What OS are you using?

It's working bang on here.

And what a game it is. It makes so much more sense than the first one, even though the graphics look exactly the same

I loved Bioshock 1. I really did. I just hope this one has a batter ending...

I smell something fishy going on....

Can we assume as you are such a Bioshock fan you paid for both games....?