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BioShock Infinite images catch fleeting glimpses of Columbia

by David Hinkle on Aug 18th 2010 2:15PM

Irrational Games has let loose several BioShock Infinite screenshots. Each one depicts an unsettling scene: a gun-toting news vendor, a candid shot of the dark-eyed Elizabeth, and some nut conducting an orchestra for the clouds. In fact, that conductor fellow kinda looks like Andrew Ryan, but considering this game takes place in 1912, it can't be him -- unless they had Oil of Olay Age Defying cream back then or something, but we seriously doubt that.

BioShock Infinite (8/18/10)

Tags: 2k-games, bioshock-infinite, irrational-games, microsoft, pc, playstation, ps3, take-two, Take-Two-Interactive, xbox

Reader Comments (51)

Getting better all the time.

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller
I used to get mad at my school ( No, I can't complain )

@Zacxx201 The teachers that taught me weren't cool

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller The teachers who taught me weren't cool (No, I can't complain)

@Soundwave Being a soundwave helped...you got me.

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller

Holding me down, turning me round

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller

Filling me up with your rules...

@Dropeti

I have to admit, it's getting better
(BETTEEEEERRRR)
A little better, all the time
(Can't get no worse)

I can assure you guys...Columbia [University] does NOT look like this.

@Joseph9307

Yeah, I don't see a hipster in any of those screenshots.

@thisredengine

I go to Columbia University and I take offense to this. Most people are normal.

Well I'm in engineering so maybe that's why.

Actually, the girl in screenshot 3 may be one. I'm not sure.

when's this game being released? i cannot wait.

i don't care what the majority of nitpickers say, i had a blast with bioshock 2, but it's good that the series is back in the hands of its creator.

@Howard Roark 2012

@honkyjesuseternal
Bioshock Infinite

nice graphics... wonder how the final product will compare

@PR0F3TA

probably extremely similar, considering how good bioshock looked.

@BrianH

I have high hopes for this game. Hopefully unlike Bioshock 1, this game does not feel like a chore to play.

@Anticrawl

surely you mean 2.

@BrianH

If you think 2 is a chore to play how could you not think 1 is a chore to play?

@Acosta02

Because when 1 was released at was a bit of a different gem. 2 came out and it was the exact same thing, but you walked slower... I'm trying to play through it right now and I can assure you, it feels like more of a chore then the last part of BS1 did.

@Acosta02

Because 1 was the new hotness, and 2 was old and busted.

new hotness vs old and busted.

I found 2 very boring, it was more of the same, and that's not always a good thing.

The conductor is Andrew Ryan's father. There I called it lol.

@den69 That record player is familiar.

@den69
I don't necessarily think he has anything to do with Andrew Ryan, but there's no reason to assume it can't be the man himself. In a universe where injecting random plasmids found lying around can give one the ability to shoot fire and ice from his hands, is it really that much of a stretch to imagine a youth-preserving plasmid?
It would be cool if there was a tie-in; but, preferably a minor plot point thrown in for the fans and not a big focus of the game.

@JonahStein

Andrew Ryan was not a plasmid taker and they only discovered adam when they had already built Rapture so it really can't be the same guy.

Looks like a seemingly idyllic city in an implausible location where something has gone very, very wrong.

Yep, it's Bioshock.

In the SKY.

Is that....Is that Peter Molyneux in the first pic?

@Grey NO! That's his GrandFather who's vision of a floating city didn't quite turn out the way he promised it would. I mean it was great but he over hyped it and now sh*t is on fire.

@Grey

Obviously, he's already living in an imaginary city located somewhere in the stratosphere...

@MarkHawk

I laughed.

Just wait for his next flying city. Its definitely going to deliver on all of the promises of the first, with 100% more farting.

@den69 That record player is familiar.

I wonder who's going have to clean up the mess Columbia will make when it eventually falls from the sky.

@Justhellboy

BP

@Tehbar
Transocean

Wow, screenshot looks just like future Peter Molyneux!

@m381 Marshmallows sleeves were all the rage in 1912.

Also read 2 comments up before you post next time. Or press control F if your lazy. :p

@MarkHawk F* what's wrong with me today. No more commenting till I've finished this long move out of state. I'm calling Joystiq right now.

What's wrong with that man's sleeves?

@Haelie

I was wondering the exact same thing!

Starring R. Lee Ermey.

The second "screenshot" is actually from the trailer that was released.

None of you guys gonna say it? ok.
barely legal boobs?

@context

You must've looked pretty hard to catch a glimpse of her imaginary video game character ID card.

That would be NYU.

Columbia is epic.

Welcome to Columbia. A pristine city in the sky where nothing can go wrong...

Well kids, looks like we're home.
*3 months later*
Well kids, looks like it's time to move.

I think the most exciting thing about this is that there are still other normal humans in the city.

One thing I've noticed in games lately is that female character models are starting to look a little... strange. That third screenshot is a good example of this when compared to the completely normal looking men in the other two. If you want further proof of this, check out the Mafia 2 demo and compare the male and female models. It will make you adjust your monocle in disbelief.

I'm glad that even though the game has bright environments, it has a dark disturbed feel to it. Can't wait.

During BS1, I wished I had a chance to play when Rapture was at it's finest. It would be nice to have a game where you play a short part of it while everything is cool and get to see the splendor before the shit hits the fan and you start shooting people.

What do I know, I'm just a bike.

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