She now has a femme fatale look that fans of classic noir movies will find mesmerising. In this reality, she’s slightly older, her voice huskier (think Scarlett Johansson), more cynical - almost cold -, more blunt. There are echoes towards the story of the main game, so you’ll want to make sure you’ve finished that first.Įlizabeth is almost unrecognisable from the doe-eyed character of Infinite’s story. Rapture is terrified and knows that something terrible is coming.Īs Booker, you fit into the story as a private detective again, this time hired by Elizabeth to find a little girl. The people are glad that Fontaine is gone, but they can sense Andrew Ryan becoming increasingly paranoid and doubts over making their permanent move to Rapture are hidden in the eyes behind every jolly welcome you receive. The tension from the citizens of Rapture is terrifically portrayed via eavesdropping on conversations as you make your way through the city. Elizabeth sets the tone by saying, “This world values children, not childhood.” An unsettling premonition to the horrors children will face in the city. And you know that the citizens are very right to be concerned about the occupants of the Little Sisters Orphanage. You know that it’s only going to get worse when you witness Sander Cohen’s increasingly sadistic pursuit of art. You know what sits inside the mysterious Big Daddy maintenance ‘robots’. There’s a certain knowingness to walking around, as you know damn well what lies ahead. I don’t know how they trained that blue whale not to accidentally wipe out the city though. I joined a few locals at one of the larger viewing windows and just stared out at the underwater city, glowing with vertical spotlights highlighting the art-deco architecture and neon signs advertising numerous famous locations. If you’ve read John Shirley’s gripping tie-in novel Bioshock Rapture -based around Rapture’s rise and fall before the games- you’ll have an even greater appreciation for seeing the world come to life. For fans of the first two Bioshock games, this is a fantastic experience. Fontaine has recently been dealt with and his department store has been sunk to the ocean floor, imprisoning the splicers (former citizens transformed into psychotic junkies) inside.īooker and Elizabeth will visit this forsaken abandoned tower of insanity, but beforehand they make their way through Rapture in the days before it fell to the splicers. Irrational have nailed the timing too, as the game is set before the Rapture’s complete downfall. With Bioshock Infinite indicating the many possibilities of alternate universes, the concept of taking (a version of) Booker and Elizabeth to one of the most inspired locations in gaming history is one that pulls you in from the start, more so after teasing us with the idea in Infinite. News of Bioshock Infinite’s first DLC amazed many of us when Irrational announced it would take place in the original game’s underwater city of Rapture and not in the floating city of Columbia.
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