Bioshock Infinite

WolfForager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV_TDxl2UIo

A new bioshock game except this time set on the floating Columbia!

May be the for the best that it moved away from Rapture, can't wait for this one!

The Joystiq preview for thos interested:

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/12/bioshock-infinite-preview/

johnny_ultimate

From the joystiq article:

Like the 1960's space program, Columbia is a testament to American ingenuity, technology, ideals and, yes, strength.

Colour me excited! Some fresh social commentary and a new setting in Bioshock is a wonderful prospect. Let's hope the satire and commentary is as strong this time around, as well as the gameplay.

Gunmonkey

Since I loved Bioshock 1+2, much pant-soiling occured. Granted it does sound a bit like "Bioshock....in the sky!!!!!!" with the powers being similar but as long as it plays well who cares.

WolfForager

I played Bioshock and B2 for the story more than anything else! If the story in this one is half as good as Bioshock1 i'll be a happy happy man.

Den85

While I still haven't played Bioshock 2 (its sitting on my shelf) I adored Bioshock. Still, we need a different location other than Rapture as this looks quite interesting. I see their still using Adam though!

thewheel2.0

Over on the Xbox forum they are saying its too similar to Bioshock and theres another thread 'Bioshock 3 Announced', it couldn't be further from Bioshock I'm surprised its even called Bioshock rolleyes:

A message from Ken Levine(Writer of Bioshock) reading this it seems the name Bioshock has much deeper meaning, my money is that this is Ken Levine's Final Fantasy and all his weird atmospheric/social commentary type of games will be realeased under the name Bioshock. But the theory is busted by Bioshock 2...Strange but interesting.

Also 2012? 5 years to develop it? I was sure this was 2011.

Edit 2: Its the Shadow of the Colossus to Ico is a better example than Final Fantasy!

Monotype

Looks interesting. I wasn't tempted by bioshock 2 but this looks different enough to warrant attention. I'll be on the lookout for followups. Is that still the Unreal 3 engine? Looks nice. Then again, it usually does.

Banjo Fella

Looks amazing! Rapture had an incredible atmosphere to it and the art-deco style of the interiors really brought the city to life, but you could never really get a proper look at its exterior. You only ever saw silhouetted outlines of its skyline (or should that be sealine?) through the murky depths. But in this trailer, everything's so colourful and well lit that you should get a great impression of floating Columbia's outdoor sights and scenes.

Love the idea of a city in the sky. Rapture wasn't exactly the heaven on earth it was built to be, but this city very much is, in a literal sense!

The Icarus reference at the end of the trailer is exciting... they'd better introduce some awesome Plasmids, like ones that let you fly about the city using genetically augmented wings.

humanji

I'm a little wary that it's just a sequel for the sake of having a sequel, which I kind of felt Bioshock 2 was. It was really just more of the same. Hopefully this won't just be the same thing but in the air, and they put a little more innovation in there somewhere.

Zapp Brannigan

The fact that Levine is working on this had me excited.

Didn't care for Bioshock 2 as I felt there was nothing to add to the first game.

Kiith

Still havent played Bioshock 2, even though i loved Bioshock. Trailer looks good, although there's not much to go by. I'd say they'll do the floating city well, as they did a fantastic job with Rapture.

Jazzy

yes daddy

robby^5

So far I dont see much tieing this to the original Bioshock, so I'm looking at this as just the next Irrational game with a Bioshock logo slapped on for brand power for the time being. I'm sure it'll be thematically similar but will it be set in the same universe/timeline as 1 and 2? I'm kinda hoping we see a young andrew ryan, he'd be a kid/teenager in the 1910's.

But yeah really looking forward to this, so far away though. Better be a Q1 2012 release!

randomchild

Bioshock + Up! How can it go wrong?

humanji

robby^5 wrote: »

So far I dont see much tieing this to the original Bioshock, so I'm looking at this as just the next Irrational game with a Bioshock logo slapped on for brand power for the time being. I'm sure it'll be thematically similar but will it be set in the same universe/timeline as 1 and 2? I'm kinda hoping we see a young andrew ryan, he'd be a kid/teenager in the 1910's.

But yeah really looking forward to this, so far away though. Better be a Q1 2012 release!

Well it has Big Daddies killing people, so I'm assuming it's some sort of invasion of this rival city.

allanb49

Just reading up on this and it says its set a few decades before Bioshock, So in that case how do they have ADAM if this was discovered by Ryan and his crew at the bottom of the ocean after creating Rapture,

I think in the trailer when the guy is falling i saw Andrew Ryan on a balcony though, am i wrong in thinking that.

Antar Bolaeisk

allanb49 wrote: »

Just reading up on this and it says its set a few decades before Bioshock, So in that case how do they have ADAM if this was discovered by Ryan and his crew at the bottom of the ocean after creating Rapture,

I think in the trailer when the guy is falling i saw Andrew Ryan on a balcony though, am i wrong in thinking that.

Probably wrong as Ryan hadn't been born in the time that this is supposedly set, or at least that's what I've read.

Monotype

You're probably playing as Andrew Ryan or his dad. That's what the big twist is.

allanb49

Monotype wrote: »

You're probably playing as Andrew Ryan or his dad. That's what the big twist is.

O no they're not let M. Night Shamalan right the script are they

Oohh.

Interesting. Bioshock 2 wasn't a scratch on the original, so hopefully this won't be continuing on a downward spiral.

Fnz

Monotype wrote: »

You're probably playing as Andrew Ryan or his dad. That's what the big twist is.

I hope they are a little cleverer with their writing than that.

Mantel

As long as it doesn't have the same twist bioshock had i'll give it a go. It was pointed out to me recently that the same twist was in system shock!

KilOit

New Video is up, says it's gameplay but doubt that tbh, still interesting though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0fDEA0BFSM

Edit, better quality here, compression is a little off on youtube.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ten-minute-demo-bioshock-infinite/704931?type=flv

Monotype

He doesn't seem like a particularly nice guy. Is he half mad from adam? So the bottle was the crow power?

Retr0gamer

Looks like gameplay to me just controlled by the developer. Looks fantastic I have to say.

Jazzy

that looks friggin sweet

WolfForager

That thing at the end makes a Big Daddy look like cuddly bunny...

Well holy shiiit.

calex71

Off to change pants after that :eek:

Gunmonkey

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Looks like gameplay to me just controlled by the developer. Looks fantastic I have to say.

More like how Bioshock 1+2 ran, with little cutscenes dropped in here and there amongst the shooting.

Wonder if the game will be as linear as B1+2 or the skyrails can be traversed to explore Columbia.

Kiith

I hope it is an linear tbh. Certain games are much more suited to a linear setting, and i think Bioshock is one of them. It'm more about good gmaeplay and story that appealed to me in the previous games, and good story is easier to achive in a linear environment.

irish_stevo815

WOW! this looks pretty amazing. I wonder how the sotry in connected to the previous games. It's set like 30 years before Bioshock 1, so i wonder if Columbia falls into the sea at the end, causing Rapture to be built over it??
Pity it's not out til 2012

Jazzy

linear isnt a bad word

CiDeRmAn

Jazzy wrote: »

linear isnt a bad word

No, ****, **** and wankshaft are bad words!

Wow!

The last one didn't get censored!
I guess it's not a bad word so!
Maybe if I hyphenated it?

****-shaft

No, that works too!
Hooray!

Re: the thread proper, I have high (pun intended) hopes for this one, I didn't enjoy Bioshock 2 at all, and this one looks like it could be brilliant, but I have been lied to by game trailers before.

I wonder how it work if they pitted Rapture and Columbia against each other in some sort of FPS Battlefield thingy? Or even as a layered RTS, sea, surface and sky, could be interesting.

CiDeRmAn

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

No, ****, **** and wankshaft are bad words!

Wow!

The last one didn't get censored!
I guess it's not a bad word so!
Maybe if I hyphenated it?

****-shaft

No, that works too!
Hooray!

Re: the thread proper, I have high (pun intended) hopes for this one, I didn't enjoy Bioshock 2 at all, and this one looks like it could be brilliant, but I have been lied to by game trailers before.

I wonder how it work if they pitted Rapture and Columbia against each other in some sort of FPS Battlefield thingy? Or even as a layered RTS, sea, surface and sky, could be interesting.

Go play Minerva's Den, quite possibly the most underated piece of DLC. It contains one of the best storys I have seen in any game, I got 8+ hours out of it for about 800msp.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

never thought to check out dlc for bioshock 2
ossum

Sad Professor

Just bumping this with some video for anyone who missed it during E3.

E3 teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npBEzA6P3Js

E3 gameplay demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_DSfjAdhlU

Tbh I still haven't completed the second game, but the first one is probably my favourite current gen game. I just love the atmosphere and world that it created. Hopefully with Levine and Irrational involved this will be as good if not better than the first. I was a bit meh on the original announcement trailer, but the E3 gameplay demo has me very excited.

Monotype

The second one isn't new footage.
I'd say this would be great with eyefinity - if it's done right, you should be able to feel motion sensations with the skyhooks.

Sad Professor

Yeah, you're right, sorry. It seems the full E3 demo hasnt been released online yet. Here's the first two minutes. The rest will be available on July 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL1p0HRsBiM

Kiith

Watched this earlier today. Looks absolutely fantastic. Can't wait for it to be released, though i think i might skip the full 15-minute trailer when it's released. I've got enough info already to know that i'm going to love it, without spoiling it anymore.

pixelburp

Funny thing is, I don't give a hoot about the gameplay tbh; I know what to expect after Bioshock (there IS no Bioshock 2 in my world); and when you've played one FPS you've played them all.

What I'm actually excited about is the world-building Ken Levine & co. are up to. Looking at the warped, 1920s, vaguely steampunk aesthetic of the city, and knowing there's a rich, complex subtext beneath it all, simmering in the background? That's what has me excited. What I loved about Bioshock were all those little subtexts & theories that were explored, all sitting behind the shooting; not every day you play a FPS built around Objectivism. So I look forward to jumping into whatever mind-fook they have planned this time.

EmacB

wow this game looks brilliant!

Sad Professor

Full 15 minute E3 demo is now up.

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/124&ch=2&sd=1?ep=124&ch=2&sd=1

It's pure awesomeness.

EDIT: Here's the Youtube version, minus the annoying presenter and ads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEBwKO4RFOU

Kiith

Watched it this morning. It's a fantastic video, and i'm really looking forward to this now. Shame it's so long away.

tok9

Wow! That looks outrageous.

Duggy747

That looks incredible!

Bioshock 2 didn't really do anything for me, found it pretty medicore after a while and never returned to it. Good to see this has taken the series to a completely new level.

Pity about the 2012 release but at least it's shaping up to be a cracking game.

Necronomicon

Holy shìt that looks insane. Cannot wait.

I might be in the minority but I loved Bioshock 2. But I love the look of the new setting and all the new mechanisms like the 'tear', looks seriously good.

Sand

I hope someday theyll think of moving it to a sci-fi setting like a space station or a spaceship.

Burgo

Sand wrote: »

I hope someday theyll think of moving it to a sci-fi setting like a space station or a spaceship.

Yeah like a spiritual successor to bioshock, you'd have to keep the shock in the name of course. system shock maybe?

ríomhaire

I'm liking the character interaction. It's like what Valve have been doing but with the actual player character having a personality too. Nice change of pace for an FPS.

pixelburp

Hmmm, I dunno, those scenes with your character interacting with the girl & world seem quite scripted (other than the UI prompting you to "stop execution"), and Bioshock 1 did the same thing, showing us scripted, demo gameplay that ultimately wasn't in the final game. I'd question how much interaction your character does.

That said, the game looks amazing. As I said already, I don't care about the FPS gameplay, the ideas & setting behind the game are what's intriguing me. That demo has me hooked & utterly curious as to what the hell's going on. Seems like a more coherent & believable (hello, irony) world than Bioshock 1's was. I can't wait.