Review: Bioshock Infinite (This Is My Joystick)

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Review: Bioshock Infinite (This Is My Joystick)

Added: 02.04.2013 12:18 | 15 views | 0 comments

BioShock Infinite takes the unorthodox step of being entirely unconnected with its predecessors, and is instantly better for it. A fresh experience from the off, it tells the tale of ex-Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, knee-deep in debt and forced to travel to the floating city-state of Columbia to collect an unknown girl. By immediately giving you a shady objective, Irrational set Booker as a man who will save his own arse despite any moral obligations, and that makes him instantly teresting than your average hero. Columbia is a well-known independent state ran by the apparently prophetic Father Zachary Comstock, with a troubled past involving the Boxer Rebellions and an emancipation from the United States. Dumped at a lighthouse that will be familiar to BioShock veterans (although Ken Levine assures us its not that lighthouse), Booker quickly enters Columbia and this is where the story really kicks off.