Video Games: BioShock Infinite! Video Game of the Year Contender for 2012!
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- Published on Sunday, 27 November 2011 19:18
Scene from BioShock Infinite! Release Date 2012!
Written by Ms. H
There is a lot to be said about a video game that is already a formidable contender for Video Game of the Year -- And it has not even been released yet!
BioShock Infinite, one of the most promising and well anticipated video games, is scheduled for release in 2012 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC!
BioShock Infinite follows BioShock 2 and interesting enough is not a true sequel to the previous game. 2K Games gave Irrational Games/2K Games Australia full creative control and leeway in creating and developing BioShock Infinite. From all the positive buzz about BioShock Infinite, the developers did not disappoint!
Here is art for BioShock Infinite.
BioShock Infinite combines detailed graphics, intriguing game play, and a storyline like one you have never
experienced before!
The setting moves from the underwater city of the previous game to a city in the sky, aptly named the floating City of Columbia. Among other obstacles, Booker DeWitt has the goal or mission to rescue a magically gifted young woman, Elizabeth, who is pursued by a Songbird. Even more perplexing, and thought provoking, is that Elizabeth has ambiguous ties to the large Songbird.
The gameplay involves the use of a lot of different and variety of weapons. Here is how Ken Levine, Irrational Games Creative Director describes the wide range of weaponry available -- from an interview with PlayStation Blog:
"One of the first things we did when we started on BioShock Infinite was to draw a graph with y and z axes, and to say that one of those axes was the number of enemies in an encounter and the other was the range of those enemies," Levine said. "In the original BioShock, the entire game lived in one corner of the graph - few enemies, all at close range - so the Electro Bolt and shotgun were perfect. BioShock Infinite is going to have much greater ranges and, potentially, far more enemies, so we're greatly increasing the spectrum of encounters that are possible, and that requires the player use a broader set of tools."
Would you like to know if BioShock Infinite will have a multiplayer mode? Looks like "mum's the word", as indicated by Ken Levine's response and told to Kotaku below:
"I will say that we experiment with things, but for us we are never interested in making a multiplayer mode you could just play in some other game. Because, A) that's not creatively interesting and B), financially, you're wasting your time. They're going to go play Halo. They're going to go play Call of Duty.
"If we do something new - if we do something like Left 4 Dead that has something new to say- people will come to your game. If you don't, don't waste your time."
Brilliant thinking, in my opinion!
It's all about bringing something new to the game!
If you recall, on my Mom's Minute Podcast I ranked BioShock 2 as the #1 Video Game of the Year in 2010!
Just to add "icing on the cake", BioShock Infinite has already won IGN's Best Overall Game Award at E3 2011!
On a winning streak and with all the creative juices, including strategic thinking flowing for BioShock Infinite, I would not be surprised if BioShock Infinite becomes the Video game of the Year for 2012!
Gentlemen --Start your video game developing engines and let the competition for the Best Video Game of 2012 begin!
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