Bioshock Infinite is the most over hyped game of eighth generation. The fact that this game has a 95% positive rating at overwhelmingly positive is astonishing, and after playing through all the previous Bioshocks and Prey back to back, it only made playing this game worse. I played about 1/3rd of it before giving up out of sheer boredom. I enjoyed the game in the past, having played it two times previously, and really enjoyed the combat and world surrounding an intriguing, but disappointing story. However, on this recent play though, I had to force myself to play as far as I did until I gave up.

Infinite has the worst combat by far. The two-weapon limit is probably the worst change in the whole series and tonics are painfully uninspired. The weapon upgrade system only makes the two weapon limit even worse as you will have to constantly be switching weapons because you can barely carry any ammo. You'll be using an un-upgraded weapon you picked up off a dead guy for half of your battles. A quarter through the game, enemies start taking an insane amount of damage, even more than previous games. (although one could argue that enemies being more tough in the previous games makes sense in the context of the world) The only improvement is the actual act of shooting which is marginally better but that's it. It's painfully average game play-wise even for a game of its time. The sky-hook is a cool addition but barely adds anything to the dynamic of battle outside of being able to lunge attack, which is actually pretty cool. Tonics overlap with each other utility wise, and most are just useless. Combat in Bioshock was never it's strong-suit but the previous games were still fun. Plasmids were useful and there were actually different ways to build your character on different play throughs. In Bioshock 2, hacking and security bot builds are extremely fun, and melee builds are borderline broken in both games. In Infinite, your options are shooting, shooting, more shooting, or using the uninspired tonics. In Bioshock 2, you'll be setting up constant ambushes with trap ammo and plasmids. The big sister fights are great and defending little sisters is one of the most fun things to do in the series. The gun play in the first two ins't the most responsive or fun, but it still got the job done and it wasn't your only option in combat.

Infinite not only removed a lot of combat mechanics, but just complete systems as well. There's no hacking, no tonics, (I think the clothing system was supposed to replace these which is just hilarious), no build variety, no research, no alternate weapon ammo, no crafting, and even the minuscule but cool addition of adding different parts to your weapons after upgrades. Exploration might as well be useless as you can't carry med kits or eve hypos anymore, and clothing pick-ups are near useless compared to tonic upgrades. Big daddy fights were supposed to be replaced with the handyman and patriot fights, but don't have nearly the same character and depth to those fights. Big daddies were peaceful until you initiated combat, which allowed you to set ambushed and fight on your own terms. Handymen are big bullet sponges thrown at you throughout the game. infinite is so painfully dumbed-down compared to its predecessors, which is funny considering the originals are dumbed-down compared to its spiritual predecessor of System Shock and the like. Literally the only thing it does better is shooting, and even that gets really old after a little while. The original Bioshock games weren't perfect, and shooting in the first game is pretty clunky, but I would take both of those games over this generic mess of a first person shooter.

In my opinion, all of these previous complaints can be looked over if a game's story is reallllly good. Infinite is far from that. In fact, I'd call the story an incoherent mess in the execution of its plot and themes. Colombia is ,admittedly, a beautiful setting and the game still looks amazing for having released in 2013. However, Columbia compared to Rapture is a joke. Rapture felt like a character in the originals. The story and of those games revolved around rapture and would only work in a city like that. The plot of infinite felt like it could have taken place anywhere. This is more an indictment to the game's plot rather than Columbia itself and its a shame it got wasted on this mess of a game. Columbia is beautiful but it is never fully realized within the plot. This connects to Cumstock, which is honestly embarrassing if you compare this villain to the likes of Andrew Ryan, and honestly, even Sofia Lamb. Cumstock is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring and compared to Lamb from 2, who is dull at worst, Cumstock is just plain bad.

Even worse if just how Columbia really just doesn't make any ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sense, and I'm not talking about the floating sky at all. Rapture took place under water, but the political philosophy of Ryan and rapture made sense. There was a reason plasmids were there. Why people were able to literally conjure bees through their hands, or i shoot electricity with their finger-tips. As ridiculous as it may sound, it still made sense within the context of the games world and story. In Infinite, they added tonics pretty much just because the first few had plasmids so they HAD to add them without even considering really how they'd fit in the world. Why does a lady just give you a tonic in the first ten minutes that allows you to hack vendors for free. Why would a society like Columbia allow this at all. In rapture, they address what happened when people tried to hack vendors through audio logs (One of Infinites worst changes in the audio logs) and addressed how Rapture functioned under a laissez faire economic system. Theres pretty much no explanation for a lot of the things in this game which is such a shame because 1 and 2 were so good in its world building and storytelling. The revolution subplot is also just straight up garbage and is probably one of he worst thing in this game.

This connects to the last point of Booker and Elizabeth which I don't have much to say about other than more wasted potential. My biggest complaint is really about Elizabeth's powers and how they just don't connect with game play at all. She is shown being able to do all this crazy ♥♥♥♥ with her abilities but the best she can muster up in battle for you are health packs and salts. You can spawn in turrets and stuff later on but wow is it such a letdown compared to what could have been. The story is just so bad and tries to be complicated literally just for the sake of being complicated. After playing, you will have to look up a timeline or some kind of explanation because screw actually trying to tell a cohesive story. And after actually figuring out what happened, its just so painfully disappointing that you wasted your time trying to decipher what this game was trying to say or even do. This isn't even talking about the actual worst piece of story which is the Burial at Sea dlc. This content contains some of the most egregious ret-cons in anything I've seen and it's attempts to try and connect this to the originals are just terrible and its sad its considered canon. This game isn't smart nor clever and its far from a good game. ♥♥♥♥ Bioshock Infinite.

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