Amidst the waterlogged ruins, a new ecosystem has emerged, where deranged Splicers hunt down the Little Sisters who would be helpless without their hulking Big Daddy guardians.
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There's always a city.Įxperience the unforgettable worlds and monumental stories of the award-winning BioShock series with BioShock: The Collection. And jokes about ice levels aside, setting it in the Antarctic is an intriguing move.īut Cloud Chamber and publisher 2K should let BioShock 4 speak for itself - yes, there’ll be a city and maybe even a lighthouse, but that should be enough of a nudge for most BioShock fans.Available on PC, Xbox One, PS4™, and Nintendo Switch* There's always a lighthouse. So what of BioShock 4? The good news is that Cloud Chamber is staffed by several people who worked on the original BioShock, so this isn’t merely a case of expecting a developer to take an unfamiliar franchise and just run with it.
And Infinite could have told its story without bringing BioShock into the mix. But was it worth everything BioShock Infinite took away from the original BioShock (and, to a lesser extent, its sequel)? No. I’ll admit there’s a certain poetry to the cities contributing to each other’s downfall, and I appreciate that Irrational Games gave Elizabeth her own story, though its conclusion seems unnecessarily cruel and unearned. That’s not to say that directly linking Rapture and Columbia doesn’t serve BioShock Infinite’s story. I’ll explain, but we are going to be stepping into spoiler territory. In doing so, it undermines the original BioShock to the point where I don’t see it in the same light. Set in the 1960s, you’ll allegedly be exploring an Antarctic city called Borealis, and yes, things will probably be less than perfect.īut where BioShock Infinite went wrong was in shoving the games’ similarities in your face and then, just in case you didn’t get it, laboring the point with its Burial at Sea DLC. And in both cases, a man is sent into the city with a purpose that incurs the wrath of that leader.īioShock Infinite’s rowboat journey gives you plenty of time to ponder the commonalities, and if the rumors are true, BioShock 4 will follow a similar template. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with linking the games thematically both BioShock and BioShock Infinite feature a wondrous, hidden city, the brainchild of some business magnate or religious leader. There’s always a city.” So said Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite, but the more I think about BioShock 4, the more I hope developer Cloud Chamber steers clear of that blunder.
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