Irrational Games Presents A Glimpse of “BioShock in the Sky”

As creative director Ken Levine took center stage, he let the curtain rise for Columbia, an awe-inspiring city in the sky, bearing American flags, skyscrapers suspended through contained helium, and ghastly creatures that served a recall of BioShock’s Big Daddies.

As the trailer rolled, there had been more depictions of BioShock’s Rapture, the crumbled utopian city down under. When the video finished, Levine disclosed that Irrational Games’ new project is a version of the franchise set on the clouds called BioShock Infinite.

Levine described it as a hypothetical “moon landing of 1900–an expression of American genius designed to demonstrate to the world by example the founding democratic principles of the United States…however, what started out as the Apollo Project became the Death Star. The city, which turns out to be armed to the teeth, goes off-mission, becomes embroiled in a violent international incident…and promptly disappears behind the clouds.”

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