Bioshock Infinite: 10 Important Details You Didn't Notice

Early in the game players face a particularly brutal combat segment where Booker is ambushed by Columbian soldiers posing as civilians in an attempt to recapture Elizabeth.

It is a fight telegraphed in as blindingly obvious a manner as is possible. Players enter an area filled with strangely tense people whose hostile scrutiny is as glaringly unsubtle as only people desperately trying not be obvious are capable of. Some of the attempts are hilarious, such as two people awkwardly pretending to be a hot dog vendor and his customer.

Others are less so, with the cashier’s ominous and threatening dialogue on the phone.

But the vast majority of players would have missed the most obvious clue:

The white man sweeping the floor.

In modern society this would pass without comment, but in 1912 Columbia, where minorities such as Irish and black people do all the menial work, this is a dead give away.

That realization, once it sets in, hits hard and it is a credit to Irrational Games’ clever use of modern norms that they were able to hide a giant red flag, and the cutting indictment of Columbia’s racist society that comes with it, in plain sight.