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Our guided single-player demo of the game began with imagery familiar to the original BioShock. She has immense power and, for this reason among others, she is being held captive in the Columbia, which is comprised of multiple island like structures in the sky connected by thin rails. Using information from a man in a small office above a bar, Booker discovers the location of Columbia and sets off on his mission to save Elizabeth.Įlizabeth, however, is no ordinary woman. In BioShock Infinite, players take control of Booker DeWitt, a man living on ground tasked to find a woman named Elizabeth who had been kidnapped and taken to Columbia fifteen-years prior. Soon after this "incident," the city escapes view into the clouds and is never seen or heard of again. "What started out as the Apollo Project became the Death Star," Irrational Games boss Ken Levine says, describing that Columbia is soon discovered to be "armed to the teeth" before thrusting itself into a violent international incident. Although the city was formed to show the world how advanced America has become both in industry and political stature, there are dark secrets that plague the world. It's the late 1800's when Columbia, a city built to rise up and sit among the clouds as an expression of great American democratic ideals, is born. Rather than a city submerged like that in the original BioShock, Infinite features an advanced city built to float in the sky. While Rapture was built away from civilization in secret, the city in BioShock Infinite was built to publicly showcase the ingenuity and progress of America. And with that, BioShock Infinite took the stage.Īlthough BioShock Infinite shares some of the same core concepts of the original BioShock, the motivation of the characters and the world itself are drastically different. Studio head Ken Levine gave a brief introduction, coyly leaving off the name, before showing the trailer (which you can see for yourself below).Īs it begins we're given glimpses of Irrational's previous work, a Big Daddy statue sits at the bottom of an aquarium before being crushed under the foot of a new behemoth one of many scattered throughout the cloud city the game is set within. At the press event in New York City its official unveiling played out in high drama. Surprise only begins to describe the reaction to developer Irrational Games' announcing the return of the Bioshock name to its next game.