What better way to start than with one of the most ambitious FPS plots of all time? BioShock Infinite casts you as Booker DeWitt, a detective who gets tasked with saving 'the girl', Elizabeth, from the floating airborne utopia of Columbia. When up there, Booker gets caught up in the middle of an all-out class and race war in the city, touching on themes rarely explored in video games. The environmental storytelling in Infinite is fantastic, as you get little hints of the city's warped politics through little bits of character dialogue, audio journals, and those brilliant Dimwit & Duke mechanised puppet theatres. In terms of plot, Booker's relationship with Elizabeth is among the best, most heartfelt dynamics in any video game; you care for both characters deeply, and you desperately want things to work out for them as everything begins spiralling towards time-bending chaos. Elizabeth's 'gift' means that her and Booker bounce around between different dimensions and alternative histories of events. By the end, you feel exhausted and mind-blown by the plot which - despite sometimes getting tangled up in itself - took video game storytelling to places it never went before.
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I'm a writer-editor hybrid whose writings on video games, technology and movies can be found across the internet. I've even ventured into the realm of current affairs on occasion but, unable to face reality, have retreated into expatiating on things on screens instead.
