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Ten Minutes of BioShock Infinite

Irrational's wheels of progress in the sky keep on turning.

Sep. 22 2010

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

BioShock Infinite

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Edited By SpudBug

Critics-
 
SILENCED

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holy fuck

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I don't get it. 
 
No, seriously, what just happened and why?

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Edited By lowestformofwit

This looked pretty solid to me.   I wasn't interested one bit until I seen this.

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Edited By Authun

Looks pretty great but man, Elizabeth looks real weird.

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Edited By cookiemonster

holy shit.

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Does anyone else think Elizabeth looks a little like Babs from Comic Vine?

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Edited By coaxmetal

shiiiiiiit this is dope. This Elizabeth looks different from the one in the CG trailer. I like it though, nicely stylized. Glad they showed some gameplay so soon after the announcement. 

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oh wow, looks really good!

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Edited By LlamaLlama

Why does that voice actor sound familiar?
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Edited By 2HeadedNinja

holy shit ... everything about this looked awesome.

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Edited By edenspresence

No doubt that it looks incredible.. And I like the look of the fiction to it.

That all looked very scripted, I wonder if the whole game will be like that. I think I am up for some scripted action actually.. :)

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Edited By koolaid

Don't stop believin' in Bioshock or Irrational games. 

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Edited By johannes

I get tons of compression artifacts if I watch the streaming version above. The HD download looks amazing tho!

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Edited By Seraphim84
@DrKatz83: 
 
Yeah!  Anyone else notice the banner around 1'47" flicker like it was a hologram?  Super suspicious...
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Edited By Jedted

Wow!  That was frakin amazing!  I think i may like this game better than the original Bioshock. 
 
I like that the main character actually has a voice, i've never really been a fan of the silent protagonist is first-person shooters. 
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Edited By TadThuggish

UNFFFFF TAKE ME, TAKE-TWO, LET ME SWALLOW YOUR MARKETING SPEAK AND HAVE ME REITERATE IT ON TURN SO YOU CAN TURN TO INVESTORS AND SAY "SEE?  THEY ARE REACTING TO THE BOLD AND OFTEN UNMERITED QUOTATIONS WE PUT ON THE BOX!" 
 
CAN'T WAIT FOR STATE OF EMERGENCY 3, WHERE EMPLOYEES WILL GO ONTO FORUMS AND SAY THINGS LIKE "THE NEXT STEP IN GAMING EVOLUTION", AND THEN THEY SAY IT SO MUCH THAT THE ACTUAL FORUM USERS ALSO SAY IT AND THEN WHEN THEY GET BLAMED FOR BEING A 2K EMPLOYEE THEY GO "HAHAH NO YOU ARE JUST CYNICAL!  RATHER, I AM A MEMBER OF THE GENERAL POPULOUS WHO HAS BEEN SO ENGROSSED IN EXECUTIVE TERMINOLOGY THAT I CANNOT CONTAIN MYSELF FROM SPEAKING LIKE A PRODUCER OF THIS GAME I HAVE NO WORK IN." 
 
BioShock Infinite looks great.  That's all I know for now.  No bold statements here.

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Edited By schragnasher

So Bioshock was an over the top ridiculous critique of Libertarianism/ objectivism, this seems to be an over the top ridiculous critique of Republicanism ("they will take your guns" " fight the foreigners"). So is "Bioshock: Brave New World" Next?

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Edited By Ravenousrattler

if they continue, the freakin amazing scripted stuff throughout the game, it should do fairly well.

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Well now I feel kind of silly for thinking this was going to be samey bullshit.

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Man, the wait for this game just got a lot harder to bear.

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That is god-damned fucking insane looking. :D :D :D

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I came

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Elizabeth is smoking hot.

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Edited By maskedarcstrike

Looks freaking amazing, personally I love how so far it looks like your far more immersed into the narrative with the scripted events than the first game.  Sure there were some bosses who you got to see and slightly interact with but it seems like Columbia has far more personality than Rapture with its inhabitants and Elizabeth.  Which is pretty bold for me to say. 
 
 I'm incredibly impressed with how polished the game looks so far with what they've shown even though the game is still over a year away. 
 
  @Seraphim84:

 Yeah I noticed that to, I didn't know if it was maybe a bad texture that was clipping or tearing or to start thinking Assassins Creed.  But I honestly think that it was probably just a graphical error, the game is still VERY early in development.  (Edit:Hrmmm I don't know, when the banner flickers it actually has a sound effect to it which makes me think its not an error)

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You had me at "Crazy ass floating building collapse".

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Looks dope.

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Edited By uberexplodey

Hot damn.

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Wow.
This smells like a day one purchase.

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That was fucking intense!

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The player voice sounded a little bit like Liam Neeson

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Edited By Besetment

I don't know. It looks awesome, but it also looks like the game will take control away from you far too much. Maybe this is just for the intro sequence, but I don't know if I can play an entire game like this.

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Looks like fun.

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Bioshock 4    (dead)space 
Bioshock 5 Universe 
lol 
seriously though it does look great

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Edited By dtat

Holy shit! This looks waaaaaaay better than I expected. If that really was all gameplay, then I am sold 100%!

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Edited By madroxcide

Holy crap i was very interested before but after seeing this i just want to see more and more just wow. The thing that comes to mind most throughout this trailer is just everything is dynamic. The environment and everything that is and its amazing how they were able to create a scary looking situation in what generally looks like a paradise.

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trying to remain disinterested after 2, but that looks awsome !

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@maskedarcstrike: 
 
Perhaps, but listen to it.  There's a distinct sound that sounds like it goes with that sort of "phasing" action.  Call me paranoid, but I say there's something amiss in the city of Columbia.
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Man, I really hope there's a Horse-Throwing tonic or whatever they're called in this. Guy walks up and you're all like "HORSE ATTACK GOOO".

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No words

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fantastic, this keeps looking better and better

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HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORSE

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Speechless.

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I am speechless, never been a fan of Bioshock, but this looks awesome

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Jaws to the floor time o.O

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@DetectiveSpecial said:
" When I first saw it, I thought the whole thing was scripted. On the Bombcast, Jeff mentions that it was being controlled live while he watched it.    So, apologies for my cynicism.  This now looks like the coolest thing ever. "
This is such a fucking relief. I wanted to believe this so badly.
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This is like riding an insane roller coaster.

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Edited By FunExplosions

All the cool parts of this were the cutscenes. It was still the same old boring, clunky Bioshock gameplay. I mean, the cutscenes were really cool, but it won't make up for the clunky-ass controls... at least not for me.  
 
Here's what would make this game worlds better: 
A sprint button, realistic head-bob and motion sway, enemies that don't make me feel like I'm just shooting animals. 
 
That last one is the biggest problem for me. I felt like I was just shooting monsters or animals in Bioshock. The splicers were way too small, took way too much damage, and were just plain unrealistic. And don't reply to this, saying that "it wasn't supposed to be "realistic." No shit. I'm just saying that they didn't do a good job making those enemies likable. They were just annoying. Every single one of them. 
 
Put aside your natural pessimism towards this comment, and think for a moment what the game would feel like if it had decent controls and modern gameplay mechanics. Imagine the controls and AI of something like Call of Duty or Battlefield (sigh... and no, I'm not a fanboy of those games. I've never even played Battlefield, besides the demo, and only played Call of Duty for a week - at the most.) 
 
Besides... it's not like I'm asking for really realistic controls in this game, just modern, functional ones.

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Edited By killer_meatballs

Looks amazing.  A lot more enemies onscreen than the last games.  Interesting.   Can't wait for it to come out.

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Edited By Joker369

wow, I never played the first bioshock but darn, this looks awesome