When I first unwrapped my special edition of BioShock 2, I didn’t give the posters a second thought, leaving them bundled up in the box, completely forgotten. 2K forum member JRoch put them on his walls instead, and while messing about with an old blacklight, discovered scrawled messages on the posters, just like the ones you find in the game itself.

As proof, another 2K forum-goer posted these images, along with a video that can be found at PhotoBucket.

I tore open my box, unfurled the posters excitedly, and realized I don’t own a blacklight. Why do I not own a blacklight?

Very, very sneaky, 2K. I like it. I also like 2K Elizabeth’s response in the forum thread.

“Well, would you look at that.”

Special edition Propaganda posters [2K Forums - Thanks Cailin!]

Hoping to pile some extra coal into the hype train’s engine, 2K took up the whole first commercial block of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with a 3-minute-15-second launch trailer. It’s a cool clip, but we get the uneasy feeling that the heavy reliance on non-gameplay, first-person action is just a touch misleading. That said, it’s just a couple of inches above this sentence, so you can judge for yourself.

I’m getting chills already, and these are merely still images from 2K’s upcoming sequel. I can only imagine what stumbling across these scenes will be like once I get my hands on the actual game. I’m extremely envious of Totilo at the moment. I’m sure I’m not alone.

Unlike the first lot, which showed the initial designs for the original Big Daddies, these show how 2K Marin – the developers working on the sequel – have gone about depicting the Little Sisters for the second game. And they look…well, pretty much identical. Which I guess was the point!

She doesn’t look mean. She just looks like she needs a nap.

These concept art shots appeared yesterday on The Cult of Rapture BioShock website, they were presented as a way to sort of get into the heads of the developers at 2K Marin, seeing what they kept and what they scrapped in coming up with the final design for the game’s protagonist.

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.

Okay, so this one is just a guy in a suit.

You can see the influence of this design a bit in the Big Sister.

Drill? Check. Slouching? Check.

Underwater Mutant Big Daddy Turtles

Almost perfect.

Early concepts for BioShock 2‘s Big Sister by Colin Fix (and additional Little Sister concepts by wife Annie Fix). [via Super Punch]