With BioShock Infinite, Irrational has created an inspired, asymmetric action game full of huge environments, smart enemies, and more tools than I could manage to play with one time through. But BioShock Infinite suggests Irrational isn't content to be known for art over gameplay a second time - or at least to let one serve as a crutch for the other. Still, BioShock has held up as a game that capitalized on the strengths of the medium that had something serious to say, and questions to ask.
The last third of the game and its climactic final boss battle have seen indifference and derision. You'd almost think it was hard to follow up the original game, which has been lauded and held up as one of the few conscious, authorial pieces of mainstream art that the video game industry has produced this millennium.īioShock's mechanics and general game design were often more inspired than they were functional. Even if you've tried to maintain a total media blackout on BioShock Infinite, it would have been difficult to remain ignorant of the extended, torturous development cycle it's been through, or the number of major creative personnel who have come and gone during that time.
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