BioShock 2: Minerva's Den

August 31, 2010 2K Marin, 2K China 2K Games, Feral Interactive
Shooter Adventure
PS3 PC Mac X360
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Minerva's Den is a single player downloadable content for BioShock 2. This additional campaign is a self-contained narrative experience that puts players in the role of another Alpha Series Big Daddy in a previously unexplored section of Rapture.
Minerva's Den shows another vision of Rapture within Minerva's Den, a high-technology center of the city, and explores the backstory of the Thinker, a supercomputer responsible for the control of many automatic devices and systems in the underwater utopia, and its creator Charles Milton Porter.
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The player assumes the role of Subject Sigma, another Alpha Series Big Daddy, as he travels through Minerva's Den, home to Rapture's Central Computing.
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Release Date August 31, 2010
Developer 2K Marin, 2K China
Publisher 2K Games, Feral Interactive
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer
Perspective First person
Themes Action, Science fiction
BioShock 2: Minerva's Den

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