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    BioShock Infinite

    Game » consists of 20 releases. Released Mar 26, 2013

    The third game in the BioShock series leaves the bottom of the sea behind for an entirely new setting - the floating city of Columbia, circa 1912. Come to retrieve a girl named Elizabeth, ex-detective Booker DeWitt finds more in store for him there than he could ever imagine.

    Giant Bomb's E3 2011 Game of the Show

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    #51  Edited By Agent47
    @GioVANNI: I think it has to do with Infinite being radically different from the previous Bioshock and it amazed people with it's uniqueness.Everyone knew what to expect from Uncharted 3 so they were probably not surprised but satisfyed.
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    #52  Edited By Chuck_

    I cannot wait to see the E3 demo of this game.

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    #53  Edited By Pop
    @Pop said:
    Tha Alice Madness returns image made me say Whaaaa? not bioshock infinite? but yea never mind can't wait to see that demo, I wish they will release it, are they afraid people will get spoiled?
    What alice image?  
    I have Alice on the brain, so I though Elizabeth was Alice :D. my bad gonna edit my previous comment.
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    Is it wrong that I'm kinda in love with the chick?

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    #55  Edited By dazzhardy

    Not suprised at all. The more I see/hear of this game, the more excited for it I get. I don't think I heard anyone have anything but the highest of praise for it out of E3 either.

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    #56  Edited By breaking3po

    Ken is the awesome. He signed my magic deck @ pax. 
    http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/5528131394_2880a6587d.jpg

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    #57  Edited By AmericanNinja

    @blacklabeldomm: i was wondering the same thing. I thought they didnt do this type of stuff.

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    @Kombat said:

    Not a bad choice. I would have personally picked Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, but BioShock Infinite is looking excellent also.

    I think Uncharted 3 would have been high on their list.

    I have only seen this years E3 trailer and that 10 minute demo that came out last year but it is shaping up to be a damn good game.

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    #59  Edited By DoublePlusRad

    I personally thought Saint's Row 3 looked like the best game of the show,  I have an unabashed love for Saints Row 2 though, so I may be a bit biased.
     
    I have been actively avoiding Bioshock information due to hating Bioshock 2 though. I'll have to look into infinite.

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    #60  Edited By crusader8463
    @Pop said:
    @Pop said:
    Tha Alice Madness returns image made me say Whaaaa? not bioshock infinite? but yea never mind can't wait to see that demo, I wish they will release it, are they afraid people will get spoiled?
    What alice image?  
    I have Alice on the brain, so I though Elizabeth was Alice :D. my bad gonna edit my previous comment.
    No worries. Happens to all of us.
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    #61  Edited By Dalai

    It's one of the few games I'm actually excited for next year. Can't argue with that choice.

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    #62  Edited By Vorbis

    I wish I could be interested in this game, the settings and characters seem great, I just wish it wasn't an FPS.

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    #63  Edited By monkeyking1969

    I could never get into the first Bioshock, and last years trailers didn't show me enough to care. But this year I'm on the boat ready to look for my Kurtz, this year what I saw made me care and made my heart beat faster. I agree with this choice for game of show. As much as Uncharted 3 thrills me, it is a KNOWN thing now, Bioshock Infinite will hold some thrills of the unknown.

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    #64  Edited By Mikazukinoyaiba

    Clevage

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    #66  Edited By rmanthorp  Moderator

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    #67  Edited By Teran
    @substandard: Did you also hate Bioshock 1...?  Because Bioshock 2 was superior in nearly every way.  Bioshock 1 just didn't know when to end and what could have been a great game got ruined... after such a fantastic conclusion you're thrown back into the game for a couple hours to wrap up a loose end with gameplay that felt kind of old at that point.
     
    Bioshock 2 wasn't perfect but at least it was a more consistent experience.
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    #68  Edited By buzz_killington

    Any game that receives this amount of hype, is sure to disappoint. Anyone remember what happened with Chaos Theory?

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    #69  Edited By HadesTimes

    Completely agree, Infinite is GOY for sure!

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    #70  Edited By chickdigger802

    still fucking lame that the game demo that the press got to see isn't available for the consumers that are interested in PURCHASING the game!

    Any European press leak it yet on youtube like hitman?

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    #71  Edited By aurahack

    There are no proper words to describe how high in regard I hold Ken Levine. The man's a genius and I'm thrilled to see Infinite get the attention is deserves.

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    #72  Edited By vortextk

    I don't doubt this game -at all-, but it's funny what game of the shows can do, such as Deus Ex last year for a lot of gaming sites, which everyone at giant bomb that I heard discuss it on the podcasts were pretty "meh" over it now. Preview events are just sometimes a bit too much spectacle and hype. I still look forward to deus ex and would dearly love to see this full demo, watching a short sky hook trailer literally made me cringe when booker jumps from rail to rail. It's terrifying in a good way.

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    #73  Edited By aceofspudz

    @buzz_killington said:

    Any game that receives this amount of hype, is sure to disappoint. Anyone remember what happened with Chaos Theory?

    I don't understand how hype works. Do people assume that if ten people say something that makes it ten times more true? Because in my mind is just makes it more likely that the same simple thing is going to be true, which is that Bioshock Infinite will be a damn good game.

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    #74  Edited By morosemode

    Not sure about this. From watching the gameplay trailers it seems so heavily scripted it might as well be a rail shooter, something GB has shown alot of disdain for in other games.
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    Everyone who's had hands-on seems really, really excited about it. I'm kind of purposefully keeping myself in the dark a little, but I don't think I've seen quite such an obvious swell in appreciation for something for a long time. Hope it makes me feel the same way. 

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    #76  Edited By Winternet

    Bioshock Infinite is going to be the greatest game ever made!

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    #77  Edited By Dany

    I am very interested in this game. I never got bioshock, the atmosphere didn't interest me, I think this looks much better

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    #78  Edited By Hashbrowns

    @Vorbis said:

    I wish I could be interested in this game, the settings and characters seem great, I just wish it wasn't an FPS.

    What genre would you prefer?

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    #79  Edited By jOn0

    Well deserved!

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    #80  Edited By jasta
    @Jeff said:

    We'll each be talking about some of the games that stood out to us at E3 over the course of this week, so watch out for that!

    Fantastic. I can't wait for the post E3 podcast, hopefully no illness's or crude dick jokes

    followed you lads home this year.

    Great coverage.

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    #81  Edited By buzz_killington
    @aceofspudz said:

    @buzz_killington said:

    Any game that receives this amount of hype, is sure to disappoint. Anyone remember what happened with Chaos Theory?

    I don't understand how hype works. Do people assume that if ten people say something that makes it ten times more true? Because in my mind is just makes it more likely that the same simple thing is going to be true, which is that Bioshock Infinite will be a damn good game.

    When most publications that give out E3 awards call Infinite the best game of show, people tend to lose perspective of reality and expect Infinite to be that much better than other games on displays. Seeing all these publications praise Infinite so much, I subconsciously think that Infinite has to be much much much better than a pretty damned good game. It's really hard to explain.
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    #82  Edited By MariachiMacabre

    The game is looking fantastic so far.

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    #83  Edited By SomeJerk

    I don't "get" BioShock. Demo showed me what was an FPS with hacking and "magic" along with regular gear for weapons. Full game was a cool memorable trip into an amazing world, second one was also excellent, but I still think that I do not get what's so hot about it and then what's so hot about Infinite.

    Yet I fap over System Shock 2, which is what everybody told me BioShock would be a spiritual successor of.. did the BS1 demo ruin it for me? :<

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    #84  Edited By Vorbis

    @Hashbrowns said:

    @Vorbis said:

    I wish I could be interested in this game, the settings and characters seem great, I just wish it wasn't an FPS.

    What genre would you prefer?

    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.

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    #85  Edited By FluxWaveZ
    @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.
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    #86  Edited By grahf14

    Can't wait for Bioshock Infinite.  Not a big fan of the move/kinect type stuff, and I'm not surprised to hear him express his hesitation on developing for it.

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    #87  Edited By NTM

    I love love love Bioshock, but from the few things I saw from E3 on Infinite, it didn't excite me. But I did like this interview at least.

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    Prey 2 and Skyrim are what I'm waiting for.

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    #89  Edited By AllanIceman

    Jeff called it before the show. I should have put money on it. A sure thing. Kinda want to re-watch the Ken Interview. Well deserved.

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    #90  Edited By Vorbis

    @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.

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    #91  Edited By dragonzord

    @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.

    How would plasmids make it any different? 'This time I shoot bullets but they light people on fire' when you break it down straight to code. You're okay with ranged slaughter as long as it's not guns? And most games based after the invention of guns are going to feature... guns. It's not like there was a tribe of legendary warriors who could beat guns with swords.

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    We knew this before E3 even started Jeff (thanks to you) so no surprise here. To me Rayman it is. I want more of those kinds of games and less shooters, even if they are made by Irrational.

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    #93  Edited By DoctorLazy

    Can't wait for this!  Hope they finally resolve the FOV issues on PC.

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    #94  Edited By Chris2KLee

    I'll agree. I loved the original and everything I've heard and seen so far has me hyped. Love the aesthetic of this. Also, there's a time hole to the 80's in the game, which is pretty much my life's dream.

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    #95  Edited By Vorbis

    @zoner said:

    @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.

    How would plasmids make it any different? 'This time I shoot bullets but they light people on fire' when you break it down straight to code. You're okay with ranged slaughter as long as it's not guns? And most games based after the invention of guns are going to feature... guns. It's not like there was a tribe of legendary warriors who could beat guns with swords.

    If you think of the plasmids as spell casting it's very different from aiming and shooting. The plasmids in the first game were pretty powerful, they could expanded on it and removed the idea of Eve. Instead we'll be using a machinegun/shotgun/pistol and picking up the same ammo we usually do.

    Maybe I just need to see some gameplay, just tough to get excited over it yet.

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    #96  Edited By DrDarkStryfe

    I found it pretty funny how BioShock Infinite came from what seemed like out of nowhere to capture the hearts of the gaming media at the show.

    Day's zero and one were all about Skyrim and Uncharted 3. Day two hit, little by litttle, the amount of people blown away by this title just got massive. By the end of the show and into the weekend, it was best of show by a considerable chunk of the enthusiast media.

    My most anticipated title at the moment, easily.

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    #97  Edited By unihoaxer
    @NTM said:
    I love love love Bioshock, but from the few things I saw from E3 on Infinite, it didn't excite me. But I did like this interview at least.
    Agreed. I think this was a fascinating interview but just do not have the Bioshock bug yet.
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    #98  Edited By TheGlitchmaster

    Bioshock Infinite seems like it'll be a great game. It's one of few games that really perked my interest during the show. In short: I hype.

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    #99  Edited By Demoninu

    damn right its the best of show!!!

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    #100  Edited By DonPixel

    Well deserve, this game looks really amazing!

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