#BIOSHOCK INFINITE PC REVIEW FULL#
I wrote a blog recently on how the commitment to looting and upgrades (read it here) can jar against the increasingly nuanced storytelling found within an industry still struggling to find its true voice, and despite their best efforts, there are moments in which common sense suggests that I be checking out the dead body or beautifully crafted landscape rather than rummaging through bins in search of food, but there I am, in full gamer mode, scavenging for the sake of scavenging – does money have to be some damn shiny!? Everything about BioShock Infinite is delicately balanced with only the all-encompassing commitment to loot really clashing against some of the more memorable story moments. Despite the intrinsic linearity of the game and the obvious expectations that have to be dealt with in light of those genre defining moments from Rapture, Irrational does a great job of leading you without pushing you and all the while delivering the story and design beats that you expect without feeling the need to smash you over the head with them. Yes, sometimes the inherent shoot-everything FPS mechanics that make up the core gaming experience do clash against the heady attempts at genuinely compelling storytelling, but to Irrational’s credit, they do a sterling job of making the experience feel as organic and natural as it does here. As it stands though, DeWitt does a perfectly good job of keeping the gameplay moving while Elizabeth admirably does her job of keeping the story chugging along – they really are quite the team. That may sound like a criticism, but given his, and your, duty to shoot the vast majority of things that move in the face, the clash of storytelling and mechanics may have been too strong to retain a level of believability if Booker had been anything other than a tough guy with a troubled past. Placed in the shoes of the relatively interesting but occasionally clichéd Booker DeWitt, the majority of the game’s intelligent storytelling and often moving dialogue tends to come from the characters around you, with DeWitt left primarily to his device as reactionary tough guy. Without wanting to give anything away, BioShock Infinite weaves an intricate and often spellbinding tale of one man’s plan to rescue a young lady from her tower in the sky. Elizabeth is as essential to the experience as the weapon in your hand or the beautiful and utterly compelling world around you needless to say, Elizabeth is the star of the show a technical and artistic triumph, and surely the greatest AI partner since Half Life 2’s, Alyx Vance. In the case of BioShock Infinite though, that something special, that unique piece of the puzzle that turns a great game into one of ‘the’ great games is a young lady by the name of, Elizabeth.Įven without her, BioShock Infinite would unlikely be anything less than an extremely good game, but once you’ve experienced Irrational’s monumental shooter, it will be all but impossible to imagine the world without her.
What makes a great game something genuinely special? To be honest, it could be any number of things, or for that matter, a perfect coming together of the individual components that make up the whole.
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