Box Art Review: The Troubling Hypocrisy of Bioshock Infinite

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Box Art Review: The Troubling Hypocrisy of Bioshock Infinite

Added: 09.03.2014 15:19 | 8 views | 0 comments

Kill Screen Daily: Year in and year out, men, and typically white men, dominate the narratives of the best selling videogames. Looking at the games that have been critically and financially successful over the past few years, theres no shortage of brooding, heroic and flawed male leads: The Uncharted franchise. GTA V. Every single exhausting iteration of Call of Duty. The Last of Us. Assassins Creed. The lone exception might be the Tomb Raider reboot from 2013, but that game doesnt exactly boast progressive gender perspectives. This quality is not, of course, unique to videogames. All forms of media struggle with proper representation, including movies, TV shows and novels all predominantly crafted around straight white people. Few videogame covers have captured the whitewashed, testosterone-driven media landscape the way the box art for BioShock Infinite has.