BioShock Infinite

BioShock Infinite: Release Date(2012)



Synopsis:

The events of the game take place in 1912. The player assumes the identity of Booker DeWitt, a disgraced former agent of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, who was dismissed for behavior beyond the acceptable bounds of the Agency. He is hired by mysterious individuals, aware of Columbia's location, and tasked to infiltrate the air-city and rescue a young woman named Elizabeth, who has been held aboard the air-city for the last twelve years. Though DeWitt finds Elizabeth easily enough, he quickly discovers that Elizabeth is central to the civil war raging in the city as each faction seeks to use Elizabeth to turn the tide of the conflict in their favor, forcing DeWitt and Elizabeth to trust each other in order to escape. To complicate matters, the pair is chased by "Him", a large, robotic bird-like creature who had been Elizabeth's friend over the last twelve years of her imprisonment. A strange, but unexplained, shimmering effect as seen by DeWitt in the gameplay demo footage causes momentary changes to pictures, banners, and people, but the mystery behind these is yet to be explained. Furthering this mystery is the presence of possible anachronisms; for example in the gameplay demo footage, a record player in a bar plays a woman singing the lyrics to Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World". Though the game takes place before the events of the previous two BioShock games (occurring in 1960 and 1968), Irrational Games has not confirmed if BioShock Infinite shares the same universe with these titles; Ken Levine left the question of the possibility unanswered in an interview stemming from the game's announcement.

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