It makes some sense that Fatshark, which recently released Lead & Gold: Gangs of the Wild West, is handling the development duties on a follow-up to 2008's Bionic Commando Rearmed. Fatshark is, after all, one of the three studios that rose up out of GRIN, the Sweden-based studio that built the original game before going defunct in 2009. So far, there isn't much to say about Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, but I think the released trailer says everything that needs to be said at this point. 
  

It makes some sense that Fatshark, which recently released Lead & Gold: Gangs of the Wild West, is handling the development duties on a follow-up to 2008's Bionic Commando Rearmed. Fatshark is, after all, one of the three studios that rose up out of GRIN, the Sweden-based studio that built the original game before going defunct in 2009. So far, there isn't much to say about Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, but I think the released trailer says everything that needs to be said at this point. 
  

Jump, you say?!

Is this what Ben Judd has been working on all this time? Also, I'm one of the 15 people who liked the disc-based title as well.

awesome

This looks very promising, and it's good news that the same dude is probably doing the soundtrack.
 
Rearmed is in the running for my favourite XBLA game.

Looks really cool :-) I still don't understand why so many people hated the "big" Bionic Commando game, I thought it was very enjoyable.

Hmm... Haven't played the first one, so i don't know what to think of this yet.

The 3D Bionic Commando was amazing. I have a kind of weird reverence for it. It's like a fighting game, except instead of fighting you're traversing the environment. It really needed a challenge room mode like BCR did. Sigh. No sequel for that one though :-(

Jeff, have you heard any about who's behind this project, like the director or whomever?  Apparently, the only lead person behind the first Rearmed at Fatshark is the level designer, so I'm kind of curious as to how much crossover there is between the original Rearmed team and Fatshark.  But if they got Simon on task for the soundtrack, maybe there's a chance he's directing this one too?

Yay jump.

Sent an email off to Might and Delight to see where Simon Vicklund ended up. I'll post the response somewhere on GB when I get it. 
 
And yeah I did like BC09 as I will now refer to it. The swing mechanics were really fun, the guns could have had more impact to them and I will now take invisible walls over radiation any day of the week. The underground cave stuff was the best part of that game because there was barely any radiation and swinging through those areas or doing battle with the flying mechs was a joy. I didn't like how collectables reset on death, that really pissed me off and make some of the levels more of a chore as a result. Also having to get everything in one play-through to get all the achievements was kind of a dick move. I defiantly enjoyed BC:R more, but I still enjoy many aspects of BC09. 
 
I wish we would get a BC2 building off the original game, current gen sequels have been doing a pretty good job expanding on their predecessors and I would love to see a game that takes all the good parts of BC09 and rethinks the rest. 

" You Can Totally Jump"
 They should make this the actual subtitle to the game.

" This changes everything. "

@Jeff: Can you confirm that BCR2 will include ball-puckering?

This is great news that another BC:R is being handled by ex-Grin guys. That is indeed awesome. But the whole feel of the game might be either ruined or improved with the jump. I mean that's kinda what set BC on the NES from stuff like Contra, really.  Oh well, we shall see.  I'm too excited about this though.

I would have been more excited if it was a new third person Bionic Commando, but I don't ever see that happening.  All it needed to be great was a little bit more variety in combat and something less irritating than murderous walls of radioactivity to keep me on track.  I even enjoyed the cheeseball story, it would have been perfectly at home in the 8-bit era.
 
I'll probably never get that though, so I'll be looking forward to Rearmed 2.

Awesome. Rearmed is easily one of the best downloadable games and the inability to jump was really the only thing you could criticize it for.

I really did like Bionic Commando 2009 too, I jut never got round to finishing it. Bionic Commando Rearmed was a great game though.

Oh god, I had almost forgotten about the Bionic Commando: Rearmed soundtrack.

I'm one of the people who actually liked the new BC game.

Fatshark is NOT a studio that rose up out of Grin. They have been around long before Grin closed

Rad! Great! I'll totally buy it, BC:R was so good last time around even without jumping! What a dumb thing to get hung up on though, jumping wasn't necessary in the first one due to level design.

I still have to get Re-armed 1. Actaully I still have to get a shit ton of XBLA games... including Shadow Complex

Oh, old flash player, I missed you more than a retard misses the point.* 
 
* I am very sorry about this lame quote from the Drawn Together series.

As soon as I saw you can jump in BC:R 2 the song Jumping Jack Flash came to mind and is now driving my crazy. I need some 8 bit re-evolved music now!!!

AAAAHHHHHH my head. The jumping is repeating and repeating.

I'M SCARED!

As a die hard fan of the original I don't think jumping should be added.  It breaks the entire game, BC didn't need it lol olololol I'm joking I could careless if there's jumping, but you know some loser somewhere is arguing this.

Yes. The first Rearmed was great, hopefully Fatshark does a good job with this one, though it looks from the trailer that it should be great.

Now someone go back and remind that little blue bastard, Mega Man that he knew how to swim once...