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Bioshock Infinite is the third installment to the very well
received Bioshock games. Based on the critical acclaimed series System Shock, a pc game series that lead. These game series lead to the inspiration of Bioshock. This game is a
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prequel to the first two taking place
in 1912 while the other Bioshock games took place in the 1960s.
You play as
Booker Dewitt a man who has seen his fair share of violence and horror. He
seems to have found himself between a rock and a hard place. Booker is in
financial debt and he is tasked with only one option to get out of it, find the
girl Elizabeth and bring her to New York.
The Game starts off with a wonderful
throw back to the first game with Booker traveling to what looks like the
lighthouse in the first Bioshock and getting rocketed up into Columbia in one
of the few most epic and beautiful moments I have seen in a game.
The thing
that stands out in this game more so than in the other Bioshocks is the sense
that people once lived there. In Bioshock one and two you stumble upon Rapture
after this horrible event has befallen it. In Infinite you live it; you get to
see people and children going about their everyday lives in one of the most
beautiful game cities I have ever seen. This gives what happens here more
weight and immersion as you see civilians running away boarding airships trying
their best to escape the chaos making the city feel alive even after the city
is deserted.
Another
edition to the game that has never been in a Bioshock game is your AI companion
Elizabeth who will travel with you throughout Columbia, and save your life more
times than you can count. She is a wonderful edition to the game and her
intelligence is on par with Elena and Chloe from the Uncharted games.
What
makes her so amazing is that like Elena and Chloe you do not have to watch out
for her and that she is not a hindrance but an asset. Elizabeth has the ability
to scavenge around the battle field refilling your magic, health, and ammo. A side note you can collect alcohol and cigarettes to recover health this game really sticks to the roots of the time period. Especailly for racial tensions even in a Utopia such as Columbia.
She
can also open tears in the world which are turrets, cover, grappling hooks, or
friendly robots. Elizabeth is also never just a side character in fact she even
steals the show a couple of times.
While Elizabeth is young and naive, Booker
has experienced the horrors of the world and the first time you have to defend
Elizabeth from attackers it shows how different their two worlds really are.
Also without Elizabeth, Booker’s character would be well rather bland we aren’t
playing as a Booker in his early years before he becomes the cold hardened
killer that he is rather we are playing his redemption.
These two characters feed off each other
and grow because of the time they spend together, Booker begins to see
Elizabeth as more than just a pay check and begins to care about her safety and
happiness, while Elizabeth begins to learn just what she has to do to stop the
Prophet from carrying out his evil plans.
Now
time to get away from the characters and story I don’t want to spoil all the
amazing moments you will share with her now onto the gameplay. I never thought
a controller would need more buttons while the controls are not bad they loaded
too much onto the controllers.
Your firearms are tagged on to R1 to fire and R2
to switch while your magic is tagged to L1 and L2 to switch. While this is fine
when the enemies are up close and personal once you have to take them out from
a distance you have to click in the right analog stick R3 to look down your
sights and well it is rather clunky and in fact you will never use it because
it is better to spray and pray than to try and relearn what every fps has
taught us over the years.This is a minor issue with the game which is surprising that it's not on the Wii U, using the game tablet would have made the massive amounts of controls easier.
Other
than that everything else is amazing and it has never felt so good to ride
around on those rails using your sky hook knocking people off and performing
brutal melee kills on the foes below you.
Another edition to this game are a few very interesting and
brutally hard new enemies that you have to find creative ways to deal
with. These new enemies range from
fellow magic users who you have to use their opposite to stun lock them while
you shoot them. To robot George Washingtons with miniguns to the Handymen and
last are the Silent Boys who alert enemies to your location. This game has a strong resemblance to Dishonored in terms of fighting and choices on how to play the game.
Out of all these
new enemies your will face and crush under your boot no one got the blood
pumping like the Handymen these guys are truly a force to be reckoned with,
with the speed and agility of Spiderman, and the power of a Big Daddy. They
bring certain exhilaration and yes frustration to the battlefield as you dip
and weave trying to dodge their attacks as these tortured souls try their best
to kill you.
Our Honest View gives Bioshock Infinite 10/10. This is probably one of the most enjoyable and impressive Bioshock
games I have played proving that you can revitalize a series and bring new life
into it. With the excellent story and the wonderful interaction between Booker
and Elizabeth creating a great masterpiece that everyone should be playing
right now! Be sure not to rush through this game but to take it slow and enjoy
every moment as the attention to detail will blow you away.
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