I love the Bioshock trilogy, and it's latest installment, Bioshock Infinite, somehow managed to be even better than the first two. I beat the game, and then beat it again, getting every achievement, waiting patiently for some sort of DLC announcement. Here it is. A combat pack will be released today, called Clash in the Clouds, which will feature a type of horde mode, but the big news is Burial at Sea, which will let you play as Elizabeth in Rapture. I won't spoil anything, because Infinite's plot twist is truly jaw-dropping, but they just barely hinted at a link between the libertarian city of Rapture and the capitalist fuck awful city of Columbia. It seems this DLC is going to actually explore that in-depth.
Video games today make political and religious statements all the time. I love the Bioshock series because it isn't just a point of view that is offered, but it really does feel like a chance to explore social experiments. What if a libertarian man who wants to be free of god, government, and entitlement actually got the money to build a city with those principles? (Turns out, he's a maniac.) Or what if a loud sister-fucking-baptist-minister got to govern an entire city built in the sky? You get to examine points of view like this behind John Galt-esque protagonists who don't seem to give a shit one way or the other until a pretty girl starts getting hurt. The games are well written, and all three installments have a signature plot twist, that turns the whole story upside down.
Bioshock 2 had a ten dollar DLC called Minerva's Den, and I consider it the best downloadable content that I have ever purchased. Never have I played a game add-on that had so much to offer, with such a tear jerking story behind it. If this new DLC for Infinite is anything like Minerva's Den, then I will be one happy splicer.
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