Tonight at 10pm during Spike's Video Game Awards 2006, a new trailer for
2K's
BioShock will air, featuring new footage from the
"spiritual successor" of
System Shock 2, according to
Ken Levine from
Irrational Games. The awards show will also be viewable online
here. In BioShock, from a first person perspective, we’ll have to explore a bio-lab and fight genetically modified enemies along the way, like drones, predators and soldiers. The AI is said to be very complex, we’ll have the chance to upgrade our alter-ego with genetic implants, use weapons like pistols, shotguns, rifles, which can also be upgraded and used to take advantage of each enemies’ weaknesses, which can only be discovered if they are photographed with a bio-scanner. The engine used is called
Vengeance and is an improved version of the one used in
Tribes: Vengeance. Bioshock will be released in Spring 2007.