Bioshock Infinite Preview
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Topic: Bioshock Infinite Preview
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Subject: Bioshock Infinite Preview
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2010 at 1:11pm
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SETTING
The primary setting of BioShock Infinite is a city suspended in the air by giant blimps and balloons, called "Columbia", named in homage of the 'female personification' of the United States. Unlike the secret development of the underwater city of Rapture, Columbia was built and launched in 1900 by the American government to much fanfare and publicity. On the surface, Columbia appeared to be designed as a floating 'Worlds Fair' that could travel across the globe; however, some time after its launch but before the game's events, the city was revealed to be a well-armed battleship, and became involved in an "international incident". The city was disavowed by the United States government, and the location of the city was soon lost to everyone else. As a result of the city's isolation, a civil war eventually broke out on Columbia between different factions of citizens, each trying to seize control of the city from the powers-that-be. One are the remnants of those retaining power over the city, whose spokesperson is an ultra nationalist politician named Saltonstall. This is the city's ruling class, which seeks to keep Columbia purely for American citizens while denying foreigners the same privileges. The other is a group named Vox Populi (Latin for "voice of the people"), a rag-tag resistance group opposed to the ultra nationalists. methods and leading to sub-factions in the group. PLOT The events of the game take place in 1912. The player assumes the identity of Booker DeWitt, a disgraced former agent of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, who was dismissed for behavior beyond the acceptable bounds of the Agency. He is tasked to invade the air-city and rescue a young woman named Elizabeth, who has been held aboard the air-city for the last twelve years Though DeWitt finds Elizabeth easily enough, he quickly discovers that Elizabeth is central to the civil war raging in the city as each faction seeks to use Elizabeth to turn the tide of the conflict in their favor. DEBUT TRAILER [TUBE]f1Wp6mQ6fyc[/TUBE] SCREEN SHOTS 
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