BioShock 4 Setting and Time Period Might Have Leaked - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 December 2021 / 1,841 Views
2K Games in December 2019 announced it had opened up a new video game studio, Cloud Chamber, that will develop the next game in the BioShock franchise. The studio is a division of 2K Games and is based in Novato, California, with a studio in Montreal, Quebec.
Journalist Colin Moriarty in a video posted on Patreon and transcribed by VideoGamesChronicle has revealed the setting and time period for the next BioShock game.
Moriarty says the game is set in the 1960s in a fictional city set in Antarctica. Developer Cloud Chamber is aiming for a 2022 release window.
"It takes place in a 1960s Antarctic city called Borealis," Moriarty said. "[The game is] codenamed 'Parkside'… I’ve been told that the development team has incredible latitude to get it right. That seems and sounds right to me."
He added, "Internally the game is very secret and apparently, totally locked up. Apparently the inclination there is that they understand full well that this game will be compared to what [BioShock creator] Ken Levine does. And by the way, [Take-Two] is also publishing Levine’s next game."
There was a rumor the game is called BioShock Isolation and is planned to be announced if the first quarter of 2022.
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"Borealis" literally means "Northern." And it's the name of a city in Antarctica.
I'm not sure if they don't know the definition of words, if it's some subversive take on some political philosophy, or if this is just a dumb rumor.
Yes it sounds off like you mentioned Borealis is Latin for Northern and is most commonly used with Aurora for Aurora Borealis or northern lights with the Southern lights being Aurora Australis , it could be a mix up, now I'm making stuff up since surely they wouldn't have got the rumour this wrong and its actually the artic and part of the city is under the sea ice and part is above on permanent sea ice.
Two cities are cool I guess, but it's definitely been done a lot too. Would still rather go back to Rapture. Regardless, Im getting Bioshock 4 still, I just hope its better than Infinite... I know, sharpen those pitchforks. Infinite was the weakest entry in Bioshock.
woah very eggciting lets go bioshock 4!
