BioShock Infinite Complete Edition

This is a love it or hate it game. People never just "like" it. The issues with it are real. The game is deliberately liner. Some of the high-concept science doesn't make sense of you think about it hard. Enemies can be bullet spongy. If you despise the concept of "Games as art" then you will not like it. But for me it is the perfect game. Bioshock Infinite gives you a world of people who are not what they seem. At first the world of Columbia seems idealistic, almost heavenly. A concept that falls apart with in minutes. This sets up one of the game's recurring themes. People want simple truths, but people are complicated. Heroes hide dark truths and villains have hearts too, You can't just get an easy truth and run with it. That leads to misery. The other big theme is freedom, be it in games or real life. At the start of the game you are shown a living corpse inside a mechanical suit of armour called a "Handy man". A person striped of freewill. The line between freedom and machine is constantly questioned. Does our freewill matter? Or are we just "Tin men"? As for the rest of the story. I'd say try it for yourself :) But Bioshock Infinite is more than just a story. A lot of people hate the combat in this game but I can't understand why. You have an excellent selection of guns combined with a robust selection of powers which when put together can whittle nearly all the enemies health down to nothing in seconds. Add in environmental aids brought in via "Tears" in reality, very 3-dimension movement via Sky hooks and some punchy melee combat and you have almost ballet-like action with you as an engine of destruction. Play this game on the highest difficulty so you can put all of these perks to use. Mastering this game was a joy for me and I still come back to the "Clash in the Clouds" wave combat mode quite often. Maybe a game that focuses on the dark side of humanity should be this much fun. But I'm not complaining. So yeah. I think this game is pretty awesome =)

Initialy I gave the game 4 stars. It was fine, but a bit repetative, and I didn't quite like the ending. But after playing the DLC (espescially episode 2), I wanted to update it. It really makes the story complete, and is quite worth it. You'll probably enjoy the game more, if you play Bioshock 1 first.

Very bad story. Previous BioShock games are far more better than this.

Enjoyable Game experience: A really nice Steam-Punk game. If the likes of Dishonored are your thing you also need to play this. Cool setting and atmosphere. It's one of those genre-gems, you gotta have in your library and play at least ones ***** No-launcher or store detected: Also there is no 2K-launcher on the GoG version (YET. Let's hope it stays that way). ***** Good Linux gaming: Although GoG only offers the Windows-version of this game to date, I was able to install and start it up just fine with heroic-games launcher and Wine Lutris-GE-Proton 7.28 (see Glorious Eggroll's wine-version for use in Lutris that you can get via ProtonUp UI) - just wait a little, might take a moment. Started out of the box. With some launch-options like "game mode" and DXVK enabled runs even better.

This game was shown off way too early. the game went through at least three different versions, one was the 2010 demo which was more horror focused and the 2011 one which had the horror elements and showed off moral choices and you could decide whether or not to enage in combat. Also the story was changed also completly as orginal Columbia and its on going civil war and factions were going to be the main focus and the multiple universes were relgated to mostly the side. Also the game was going to have more of a patrotic nationalist theme than this boring religous racist cult of personality theme and this makes more since when you think about the people of columbia literally worshipping then founding fathers as if they were gods. Comestock is a completly different character and so is the vox populia. Also both factions were supposed to be bad but they do a crappy way of showing this , So much so there retcon the vox being bad guys in the dlc. The minute you enter into a different unvirse the games story kind of craps the bed. None of this is more interesting than exploring the histroy and story of a city in the sky. Certain eniemies like the boys of silence don't even function like they were orginally supposed too. As one they were blind and could only hear you and could actully move around instead of staying in one spot. also you could actully kill them and they were supposed to be in more than one level. also there isn't really much backstory if any on the boys of silence or the handymen. Alot of the gameplay mechnics were scraped. The moral choice system was scraped. Songbird which supposed to be columbias big daddy was relgated to three cutscenes and a tower defenise mechinic and the end of the game instead of an every present mini boss in the game that was orginally planned. The game lacks any of the horror elements that bioshock 1 and somewhat 2 had. and the game feels like a corridoor shooter. ending and plot twist was stupid and comes out of nowhere.