It’s a fitting ending for Booker DeWitt’s story, albeit one that takes a little while to get your head around. While I won’t reveal the crime he’s guilty of, protagonist Booker DeWitt (or possibly an amalgam of multiple Bookers) is drowned by multiple Elizabeths, concluding the main game. I’ll explain, but we are going to be stepping into spoiler territory.īioShock Infinite concerns itself with the multiverse - it reveals that Columbia, the floating city you explore, is one of many Columbias and that the Elizabeth your protagonist has been sent in to rescue isn’t that dimension’s Elizabeth. 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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