Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea


Oh my goodness gracious. Bioshock DLC, that might be good! - 12/11/13 or (USA) 11/12/13









Being a huge Bioshock fan, you can understand my excitement when i logged onto Steam to see the Burial at Sea DLC was now out. 
If you don't know, Burial at Sea is a non-standalone DLC expansion for Bioshock: Infinite taking place in Rapture (The location used in the first 2 games), and if you dont know what Rapture is then.. Well I dont really know what you should do other than re-think your life and play Bioshock and maybe Bioshock 2 if you can be bothered.

What's it all about?

Well as i mentioned earlier it takes place in the underground city of Rapture, but that is about all we know so far.. Irrational have been very mysterious in what they tell us, and as I don't want to see any spoilers, I have only read the normal plot line.
So all we know so far is that it is set in Rapture, and it has some nice tweaks to the engine, and you get to see all your lovely Bioshock stuff that you saw in the first 2 games.

What am i expecting?

I want it to be good. 

I really do, and I am sure Irrational have done a great job, BUT. I am worried at the same time.
Bringing the story back to rapture seems a bit gimmicky to me. (SPOILER ABOUT BIOSHOCK INFINITE) Sure it was nice going back there in the end scenes of Infinite, but I thought that was a good amount of nostalgia that us Bioshock fans needed. 

Creating a whole DLC, which by the way is marked Episode 1, and not giving much or any info about the story behind it does really make me nervous. Especially due to the fact that they seem very obsessed with stressing that you get to have "An old favorite gun" or you get to meet some "Old friends".
I am just worried that they are trying to make all the oldschool fans happy by giving them a bit more of rapture, when as Naughty Dog have proved with only ever counting to 3, knowing when to let go in gaming series is what makes you a great developer MOST OF THE TIME. 

On the other hand i am hugely excited to go back to the city, especially to see it before it became all weird and stuff in Bioshock, also I could be completely 100% wrong about it, and i am probably worrying over nothing.

I will hopefully be able to start it tonight and possibly get the review up by the 14th/15th of this month. 

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