You’ll run from one side of the battlefield to the other with the amazing Sky-Hook system.
Whereas Bioshock is more of a shooter with survival horror elements and a huge emphasis on managing resources, Bioshock Infinite is a lot more open and focused on swashbuckling action. Once the action kicks in, it won’t stop until the end of the damn game. You won’t even mind the fact that the first hour is extremely calm for a Bioshock game. You can partake in a few carnival games, talk to some seemingly friendly citizens, and even listen to a barbershop quartette perform an acapella version of the Beach Boys’ “ God Only Knows“. Upon arriving at the heavenly city of Columbia, you’re given the freedom to explore the city at your leisure. Let’s just talk about Bioshock Infinite and its excellent debut on a Nintendo console.īioshock Infinite is one of the very few action-packed shooters in which its first hour or so of gameplay features absolutely no shooting at all, and that’s not a bad thing. I love how Rapture was a claustrophobic hell located at the bottom of the ocean, while Infinite‘s Columbia was an open heaven-like city located in the sky. I love how Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite are polar opposites in terms of tone and setting, yet still revolve around failed utopias, class struggle, and madmen with a god complex screwing up everything for everybody. It doesn’t get old to compare how those games are so similar to each other, yet so completely different at the same time. I could spend all day talking about the philosophies behind Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite.