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BioShock 2’s Online Multiplayer Is Glitching Its Way Onto My Shelf
If you read mine and Adam’s CO-OP REVIEW, you’ll already know I love BioShock 2. And I also love the multiplayer. However, in my quest for 1000 Achievement Points in BioShock 2 I find myself getting more and more frustrated with the multiplayer.
I don’t have a problem with the multiplayer itself, but with the insane glitching. I’m constantly ending up in games that are lagging terribly. Even worse, the game will freeze mid game, or even right before a games end. There is no coming back from a freeze. You have to turn your system off. Which means you lose all the experience points you worked so hard to get during the game it freezes on. I’ve lost thousands of points because of frozen games. On top of the time it takes me to restart the Xbox and get back into another game.
The multiplayer was looking to stay in my regular rotation of online multiplayer games. Alongside Halo, Gears, and Left 4 Dead. But as of right now I’m going to trudge up to level 40 so I can earn my 1000 Achievement Points, and stick this game back on the shelf until maybe I feel like playing the single player again. Or until the next DLC is released. Has anyone else been having as many problems as I? Or am I off my rocker?
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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