Ruled by the self-proclaimed Prophet, Father Comstock, Columbia is every American’s idea of Heaven - provided that American is affluent, white, and fiercely proud of those traits. Rig: Intel i7-2600k GHz, with 8GB of RAM, GeForce GTX 580 GPU (SLI)īioShock Infinite wisely abandons Rapture for an all new story in an all new setting, introducing us to the cloud city of Columbia. One has to wonder what the price will be for this success.īioShock Infinite (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) We go not below the ocean, but to the skies of Columbia, to seek magic once again. It falls instead to Irrational Games (known as 2K Boston in 2007), creators of the original BioShock, to try and topple what came before. It tried its level best, but while 2K Marin’s gameplay refinements were appreciated, its narrative irrelevance and the diminished returns of a second Rapture outing ensured it would never live up to the series’ high standards. There is a price to pay for such an achievement, however - the price of increasing failure to make lightning strike twice, to put the genie back in the bottle and release it a second time.īioShock 2 tried. A perfect storm of creativity that will seal its place as one of the seventh generation’s leading opuses. BioShock was an unforgettable experience of iconic visuals, scenes, and characters. That descent into the undersea city of Rapture, that first encounter with objectivist messiah Andrew Ryan, that initial encounter with the Big Daddy. There are games of unquestionable caliber that, while few in number, become games that define a generation. A game of exceptional quality is exceptionally rare, rarer than generous review scores and excited praise in the high profile videogame market may indicate.
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