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BioShock Infinite

Project Icarus

First person perspective action game released as a spin-off to the BioShock series. This title was produced by Irrational Games with publishing support from the 2K Games company. BioShock Infinite is set in an alternative version of the early 20th century.

Action | FPP | science fiction | FPS | RPG elements | dystopia | alternative history | shooters | early 20th century

BioShock Infinite Release Date

26Mar2013

PC X360 PS3

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BioShock: Infinite for PC, X360 and PS3 is the next installments of renowned series of shooters including intriguing storyline and complex gameplay. The production’s codename was Project Icarus. It is not supposed to continue the story presented in the underwater city of Rapture (BioShock, BioShock 2); it is a spin-off. The game was created by Irrational Games, renowned for BioShock or System Shock 2.

Story

The action takes place in the early 20th century. You play as Booker DeWitt, a detective working for the Pinkerton Agency. Unfortunately, he is dismissed after a mistake and starts working on his own, taking well-paid, but extremely dangerous and risky jobs. One of them takes DeWitt aboard Columbia, an extraordinary aerial city. The metropolis was thought to be a peaceful project, but it has been turned into a flying fortress. The city is controlled by an unknown group that kidnaps and imprisons people and threatens the entire world. Your job is to rescue a woman named Elizabeth. It will not be an easy task, because Columbia is being torn by a conflict between two groups. Each of them has its own plans towards the woman. The rulers of the city kept her in prison for fifteen years and they are ready to lock her for even longer period of time. On the other hand, a radical military faction known as Vox Populi wants to use Elizabeth to take the power over Columbia.

Gameplay

Game developers offer a lot of different weapons (shotguns, sniper rifles) and special powers. As in the previous parts, players can attack the enemies with lightning or use telekinesis for lifting and throwing objects. The main character has received several new abilities, including summon of the ravens that disable opponents for a few seconds. Elizabeth also has some extraordinary powers – the girl has powerful telekinetic abilities and can manipulate tears that appear in the matrix of reality. Therefore, she can use items (equipment, vehicles) from other dimension to help Booker during fights.

Different locale means open locations where you can take advantage of specific types of weapons (e.g. sniper rifles). Columbia is inhabited primarily by people, although you will meet local counterparts of Big Daddies (opponents taken from previous BioShock parts) and powerful mechanical creature known as Songbird who served as Elizabeth’s guard and defender when she was in captivity. Enemies are controlled by advanced AI and make use of all elements of the environment, e.g. the sky-rail network connecting various islands that serves a transport system. The system is currently shut down, but owing to the wrist hooks one can slide on the so-called stripes and travel between the islands. The problem is that enemies can do the same thing. Sometimes players have to defend against enemies who use the adjacent track. Not to mention that any fall at this speed and height is definitely fatal. Moreover, opponents use this method of transportation to get behind the player’s back.

Technology

BioShock: Infinite for PC, X360 and PS3 runs on Unreal Engine 3, however the developers improved it a bit, adding a new lighting system and advanced AI mechanics that enables computer-driven characters for greater interaction with the world around them.

Last updated on 21 November 2014

Game mode: single player  

Media type: 3 DVD

User score: 8.7 / 10 based on 6798 votes.

Pre-release expectations: 8.7 / 10 based on 1129 votes.

PEGI rating BioShock Infinite

Age rating. The PEGI rating considers the age suitability of a game, not the level of difficulty. Game contains bad language. Game contains depictions of violence.

BioShock Infinite System requirements

PC / Windows

PC / Windows

  • Recommended:
  • Core i5 2.4 GHz
  • 2 GB RAM (4 GB RAM - Vista/7)
  • graphic card 1 GB (GeForce GTX 560 or better)
  • 30 GB HDD
  • Windows Vista/7/8
  • Internet connection
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