BioShock 3 Confirmed Despite Lack of BioShock 2

The opposable thumbs blog is reporting that despite a lack of BioShock 2, a third installment of the BioShock universe has been confirmed. "Take Two's Chairman Strauss Zelnick let the news slip during a conference call to investors. The third installment will apparently be strongly linked to the also recently-announced BioShock movie. 'Its unlikely the picture would be released coincident with BioShock 2,' Strauss said of the upcoming film. 'It's more likely it would be released coincident with BioShock 3.'"

Surprised?

[hansamurai]

Is anyone really surprised at this? Bioshock was very successful late last year and has been heralded as having one of the best stories in recent memory. If you would have told me there were going to be less than three games I would have been surprised, writes love trilogies, and so do consumers.

Re:BioShock is one thing...

[IthnkImParanoid]

SHODAN was a great nemesis, sure, but doesn't it get old and predictable fighting the same enemy ad nauseum? (You'll be sorry when she becomes a farce and joins Bowser on a cart racing game.)

System Shock 2 was awesome largely because you didn't know it was SHODAN until halfway through.

Re:In other words:

[TheLoneDanger]

According to wikipedia [wikipedia.org], Mario appeared in 53 games before Super Mario 64. So, 64 really isn't that far off. There might be some other brief Mario cameos in other games, or games that were killed in development that had Mario as well.