Bioshock Infinite: Life and Death in the SkiesĬolumbia is not Rapture Mark 2. In fact, it’s going to be very hard indeed. It turns out that the girl, Elizabeth, has mysterious powers, and that getting her out won’t be as easy as you thought. The less you know when you load the game up, the better.Īll you ought to know is that it’s 1912, that you play a Pinkerton private eye with a shady past, and that you’ve been sent by unknown agencies to the floating sky city of Columbia to retrieve a girl. Spoilers are a problem in any review, but with Bioshock Infinite the story is the key to the whole experience. Bioshock Infinite is a continuation, but one that takes the ideas and aesthetics of its predecessor in a new direction. While both The Godfather and its sequel concern gangsters, corruption, family and the corrosive lure of power, and both involve scenes of drama punctuated by sudden bursts of violence, there’s no way you could call the second part a retread. In a way, it’s the gaming equivalent of The Godfather Part 2. While it might share common DNA with its illustrious forbear, and feel very similar in the moment to moment gameplay, it’s a different experience. Within a few hours of play, the answer becomes clear: Bioshock Infinite is more than simply Bioshock in the skies. The question is, can it find its own identity, or is this one of those sequels doomed to live in the shadow of a ground-breaking original? Bioshock Infinite: Bioshock Part 2 Sure, the old power-giving Plasmids are now Vigors while the city’s in the sky, not in the sea, but while Bioshock Infinite is by turns magnificent, awe-inspiring, all-absorbing and every other superlative you might care to throw at it, it never quite feels so strange, fresh and new. As stunning as its new setting is, it’s made of much the same stuff of Bioshock. It’s not that Bioshock’s elements had never been combined before, but they’d never been combined in such a way, with such power and with such intelligent, deliberate intent.īioshock Infinite doesn’t have this advantage. Here was a miraculous city beneath the waves, crammed with art deco architecture and period atmosphere, and here was a story that shocked, surprised and made you think. The wonder of the original Bioshock was that it took us somewhere completely new then delivered a story-led experience the likes of which we’d never seen before. Available on Xbox 360, PS3, PC (version reviewed)Ĭan you ever recapture the magic of that first descent into Rapture? It’s the one question that Bioshock Infinite struggles to answer.
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