BioShock for the PlayStation 3 has 5GB mandatory install

What with all the recent games requiring a mandatory install, this one doesn’t come as a surprise at all. The PlayStation 3 version of BioShock will have a mandatory install of 5 GB, so be sure you have some space on your drive when it comes out. Maybe plan what you’ll do for 10 minutes as you wait for the install to finish. More after the jump.

What with all the recent games requiring a mandatory install, this one doesn’t come as a surprise at all. The PlayStation 3 version of BioShock will have a mandatory install of close to 5 GB, so be sure you have some space on your drive when it comes out.

The installation time takes about 10 minutes to finish, so you might want to plan out what you want to do during that time as well. Maybe go through the ethical dilemma of whether to kill the Little Sisters or not. Get the whole emotional trauma over with. You’ll even have appropriate music playing in the background, as the install time comes with some Rapture-related ads and piano music.

BioShock for the PlayStation 3 will come out on October 21 in the US, and October 24 for everywhere else.

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Via EuroGamer