Giant Bomb's E3 2011 Game of the Show

Looks so good - it really stands apart from the other FPS games.

i don't know. i worry that we might have a camel on our hands...

I dislike the changes they made to Elizabeth..

@Vorbis said:

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Vorbis said:

In all honesty I would prefer no shooting at all, it's what put me off the first Bioshock. I don't see why a story driven game has to have shooting, it could easily take the Portal path and just use plasmids and puzzle elements.

But some people don't like puzzle games, either. In Infinite, the shooting makes narrative sense and it'd be weird if you weren't fighting crazed people akin to splicers during the course of the game and, instead, methodically paced yourself to figure out a bunch of puzzles.

I get that but I'm saying with the plasmids you could still slaughter crazed people, if anything it would be more tactical. Just saying I wish the guns weren't necessary, like said on the E3 live show, every game has to have guns.

You do know this game has the equivalent of plasmids, right? Like Murder of Crows, which is this games version of the Bee plasmid from Bioshock.

After seeing what I saw and knowing what I know, I agree. Should be a trip to play.

I suppose it makes sense to pick Bioshock Infinite, though it always irritates me when a "Game of Show" is a game in which they barely have anything to show.

I really wish this game was releasing this Fall. Hopefully it doesn't release around Mass Effect 3 next year so I can give both games there much deserved time.

@Vorbis said:

I get that but I'm saying with the plasmids you could still slaughter crazed people, if anything it would be more tactical. Just saying I wish the guns weren't necessary, like said on the E3 live show, every game has to have guns.

You do know this game has the equivalent of plasmids, right? Like Murder of Crows, which is this games version of the Bee plasmid from Bioshock.

How is not Uncharted 3 or Skyrim?

Also mine!

I'd say the game I'm most excited to play following E3 is still AC: Revelations.  However, if I was being "REAL" and not just going with a safe bet, I'd say Prey 2 was my surprise AND game of the show.

I agree with this choice, although it was close between this game and Prey 2 once the show was over.

I really like the world's that irrationals create there very different but I can't stand the characters in there games they feel to Disney for me they just seem cartoonish I'm really turned off by it that I couldn't get myself to finish Bioshock.But I respect Jeff's choice in the world of FPS they all seem all the same this looks kinda unique but not for me.

As long as we don't have to do more of that bullshit "trap big daddies and keep little sister safe" bullshit 30 times. Looking forward to this, but not going to get too excited, so I'm not let down.

I have a feeling they will be raving about this for the 2012 GOTY's.

@JEC03 said:

I really like the world's that irrationals create there very different but I can't stand the characters in there games they feel to Disney for me they just seem cartoonish I'm really turned off by it that I couldn't get myself to finish Bioshock.But I respect Jeff's choice in the world of FPS they all seem all the same this looks kinda unique but not for me.

How cartoonish, in the art style? Cause I've never seen a Disney movie where a dude makes you bash his head in with a golf club. Although I totally SHOULD have seen a Disney movie where that happens.

@JEC03 said:

I really like the world's that irrationals create there very different but I can't stand the characters in there games they feel to Disney for me they just seem cartoonish I'm really turned off by it that I couldn't get myself to finish Bioshock.But I respect Jeff's choice in the world of FPS they all seem all the same this looks kinda unique but not for me.

How cartoonish, in the art style? Cause I've never seen a Disney movie where a dude makes you bash his head in with a golf club. Although I totally SHOULD have seen a Disney movie where that happens.

I couldn't care less about anything with the Bioshock name attached to it.

@MrKlorox: Why?

@MrKlorox: Why?

I didn't like bioshock.

But I will give this game a chance, if they release that demo I might buy it if I like the gameplay.

@arch4non said:

@WEGGLES said:

@MrKlorox: Why?

Because he hates good things?

Because I didn't enjoy the first one and I don't like linear corridor shooters in general, even if you can see the sky in this one. I'm getting bored just thinking about it.

Not a surprise, given how much the crew raved about this every night. I hope they put that demo out on Xbox Live!

I think I'm anticipating Skyrim a bit more hotly right now, but that may just be because I'll be playing it sooner.

Bioshock Infinite looks amazing. Major hype.

Rollercoasters in an FPS? Genius! Why didn't someone think of this before?

I am really looking forward to this. I love the setting, it looks awesome. I still can't figure out how much is scripted and how much is up to the player, especially the bits on the sky rails. Can you choose to jump off when ever you like and skip to another rail (or plummet to your death) or do you have to stay on until you reach a specific destination?

@Sanious said:

@MrKlorox: You cared enough to let everyone know that you don't care.

Total non-sequitur. I was commenting on the fact that I wouldn't have named this as game of the show, not coming into a Bioshock article and talking shit, like you seem to want to imply.

I don't know. This is definitely an awesome looking game, but there will almost certainly be another E3 before this comes out. Seems like some playable games were just as deserving.

Good choice.

One of my personal favourites for this year is Rage and I think it's a bit of a bummer you guys didn't get any footage of it (that I know of), but I'm really really happy about the interview with John Carmack. I hope someone decides to get a little bit more interested in the game, before it is released.

it's just cos Levine is so handsome. 

I really don't get it. I played Bioshock one and barley got through it because I was bored halfway through. I didn't even touch Bioshock 2 and have zero interest in this game, except for the rail stuff that looks like fun. What the hell do people see in these games?

Not a big fan of bioshock but i have a lot of respect for the amount of detail and atmosphere in the games. Ken seems like a really smart guy. He looks like he could use a good bit of sleep though.

To swoxx, well for a start I enjoyed the hell out of Bioshock. But it gets worse, I enjoyed the hell out of Bioshock 2. And Minervas Garden rocked. To be a bit more specific, I enjoyed the evolving gameplay, the story, the graphics and the art aesthetic. My origonal grounding was in Sytem Shock 2. I'm definetly looking forward to Bioshock Infinite. It's like a series of well written and inspired books with a developing common theme.

I didn't care for the bioshock series, but Infinite does look awesome. Great atmosphere. The videos almost give me vertigo, I can't image playing it on the big screen.

I really wish I could see what some see in the Bioshock games. I think the art style is nice to look at, less interesting to play in. And whatever they got going in this game, I'm not seeing it unfortunately.

Looks intense, which was something the first few videos of Bioshock really drew me in with.  They sure know how to make a good demo showing.

No surprise here. Women with short hair are the best by default.

I don't know, I never played any of the Bioshock games, mabey I should.

*yawn*

I kinda think e3 as a whole was a bit underwhelming this time around...

I'd say that's a pretty good choice guys... ;)

Can't wait!

I liked playing the Bioshock's as RPG's: power up, conserve items, and try to find all the loot. It was a lot of fun, except that the difficulty is balanced around you finding almost no loot, so it gets way too easy to be enjoyable as an actual fps.

I sure wish they'd make a hard mode that made ammo really hard to find (or alternatively, splicers take a ton of ammo to kill) so I could enjoy both sides of the game.

BF3 would be game of show for me because I'm a total BF junkie. But I would agree that Infinite is the more interesting game.

BF3 is the beer to Infinite's XO Cognac.

@blacklabeldomm said:

since when does GB do articles like this?

I think they just really really liked this game.

I'll never be surprised at the amount of false outrage some people have, or the quantity of people who have to make their disinterest very clearly known.

It just doesn't make any sense.

I barely saw it, but I'll take your word for it.

I like Ken Levine and his philosophy of game development