First Look at BioShock 2’s Big Daddy Prototype
Seeing as how BioShock 2 is actually a prequel title, 2K Marin has been hard work figuring out not only how and why the first Big Daddy came into existence, but also create a prototype that alludes to the future version seen in the original Bioshock game.
This is what the team at 2K Marin had to say:
“Between the first BioShock and the sequel, you’ve seen a lot of concept art for Big Daddies. The logic behind this concept art went beyond different designs and suit combinations. The artists had to imagine what the very first Big Daddy would have on him — this Big Daddy had to feel like he was a rough draft or a work-in-progress, an amalgam of Big Daddies to come. The first Big Daddy was a test case, and in making the perfect prototype, 2K Marin drafted many, many prototypes themselves.”
Included below are three concept art photos, as well as a near final render of the Big Daddy you’ll be able to control in BioShock 2. Check them out, and let us know what you think!
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June 27th, 2009 at 7:37 PM
They look more advanced than the Big Daddies in Bioshock 1 (and are because it can use plasmids), which doesn’t make much sense seeing as how this one is suposed to be a prototype.
June 27th, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I heard its not a prequel but that he survived the events of the first game before your character was introduced to Rapture. A few sites said the same unless it was recently changed.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:39 AM
I believe BioShock 2 takes place 10 years after the first one.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Yes, but your playing the very first Big Daddy aren’t you?
June 28th, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Its a sequel which takes place around ten years after the first, they confirmed this, also think of it this way in the first Bioshock you heard in a lot of the Doctors journals how the Big Daddy was over-powered, so maybe the scientists realized that he was over powered so they decided not to allow the others to control plasmids, also they said in interviews that because we’re only a prototype we dont “follow orders” we think for our selves, also eventhough the single player is a sequel the multiplayer is a prequel, yes it has its own story
June 28th, 2009 at 2:46 PM
@ smokey_vols
which enforces the “he survived the events of the first game”. you never encountered the first big daddy, just the mass produced kind. He was long gone before Jack enters Rapture and the Big sisters is a mechanized little sister. There were more than 8 .the ones you saved and took in as Jack aren’t the same as the others. im guessing, not every little sister left with Jack, just the ones he saved. Assuming that the good ending is the correct one. It is sequel. the journals said that the mass produced big daddys cant think for themselves just to protect the little sisters at all cost. The first one had free will and most likely not fused into the armor, no human would allow themselves to be bound forever into a suit.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:21 PM
@ shadowjin: its said that all the little sisters were saved, but the big sister, who is a grown up little sister from the first game, started kidnapping girls who look, sound, and are aged nearly the same, as said in the teasers
June 28th, 2009 at 11:23 PM
@SevWolf
thats cool, i was hoping it wasn’t a prequel.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:16 AM
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