Publisher 2K Games has announced that BioShock is setting new records. First off, it has quickly become the fastest downloaded demo to ever reach the 1 million mark over Xbox Live. It was available to download on the Marketplace August 12th after a “surprise” announcement by Geoff Keighley on Spike TV. After only nine days of being released, the BioShock demo surpassed all the others in number of downloads. Secondly, it has secured the positions of all-time top ranked Xbox 360 game and the year’s highest ranked game across all console platforms on Metacritic.com.

Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K, said the following:

“We are really pleased that Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE Marketplace has managed to attract a record number of gamers to its site to download and check out BioShock. The overwhelmingly positive response is not only reflected in the traffic to Xbox LIVE, but the record breaking score reported by Metacritic. We’re excited about the reception the fans have given BioShock and are honored that the game has been recognized as ‘Game of the Year’ material.”

BioShock is an amazing game and one of my favorites, but can it stay the highest ranked game for long? Quite the amount of triple AAA titles being released soon…