"For all the negative things you can say about Rapture, it wasn't a racist or homophobic society. "One thing I really regretted in BioShock 1 is for various reasons, including the number of characters we had, is that we didn't feature non-white characters," Irrational co-founder and BioShock Infinite creative director Ken Levine said. Provided you contribute to Rapture, no one judges your personal choices. A man casually offered the companionship of well-dressed women. Andrew Ryan's society favors ability over appearance and the sweat of the brow over moral of the heart.Īs I wandered through, I witnessed two men openly arm-in-arm looking at the beautiful seascape outside. Unlike Columbia, a biblical paradise with a rotten core of racism and excessive nationalistic pride, Rapture is liberal. You'll learn about Ryan's actions against Fontaine and how he sank the criminal's department store and turned it into a prison.īeyond that, I learned a great deal about Rapture's societal norms. I implore you to take your time with this section of the game. This is Andrew Ryan's utopia, and it's the first look at what made it so appealing to all of those people who later became addicted to adam. ![]() This is a Rapture we only ever heard about in audio logs. The people I encounter as I walk through the common areas aren't spliced up junkies, but normal citizens going about their lives. The exploration of those nuances is one of the greatest parts of Burial at Sea Episode 1, and I certainly will not spoil it for you here.Īs I step out onto the promenade, I am treated to a Rapture at its peak. It is clear that Elizabeth knows Booker, but he is clearly oblivious about the connection between BioShock Infinite's characters. Elizabeth requests DeWitt's assistance in finding a girl who has gone missing. This office looks the same, but it's located in Rapture. The story begins as a more mature Elizabeth enters the familiar office of Booker DeWitt. Of course, if you haven't played Bioshock: Infinite at all, you might want to steer clear.īurial at Sea Part 1 is itself broken into two halves. I won't be ruining the story and even the things I describe should be experienced first-hand. As we revealed in August, the two episodes that make up the narrative expansion bring us back to Rapture, the underwater city of Irrational's original BioShock adventure.īefore we go any further, know that there are very light spoilers focused on the over-arching story and the more subtle elements that make Burial at Sea so enthralling. I also think that the neon sign of the girl smoking a cigarette (which can be seen in key locations in Burial at Sea and Bioshock 1), now represents the version of Elizabeth who can see all of this and all of the doors.Earlier this week, Irrational Games invited us to its discreet Boston offices to get our hands on the first part of the exciting BioShock Infinite Burial at Sea DLC. So Elizabeth could help Tenenbaum and Jack, in an alternate version of Bioshock 1. So in an alternate branching version of the Burial at Sea universe, a version of Elizabeth could be reborn in a working version of the Prototype Vita-Chamber.Īnd in Bioshock 1, Suchong's Lab is not too far from Tenenbaum’s hideout. Now imagine an alternate version of the Burial at Sea universe, where Elizabeth's DNA sequence was programmed into a working version of the prototype Vita-Chamber. There are clues in the other Bioshock games (and the earlier System Shock games) that there is a way that a version of our Elizabeth can cheat death.Įlizabeth delivers her own DNA sequence to Suchong, and it ends up in his lab alongside the prototype Vita-Chamber. Originally posted by matt:Does our elizabeth die in burial at Sea? She goes to the only single universe with an alive comstock with her see all possibility powers yet is caught off guard when she is killed, it makes 0 sense They're all stuck in a time loop of infinte suffering and exploitation. It is unfortunate, but what we thought was a noble and virtuous deed by rescuing her from the 'prophet' in the original game, turns out it was all for naught. What happened to Elizabeth was aweful and sad. In light of what's going on in the world today, I wonder if this entire game series is a scathing commentary on the exploitation of children and the abuse of the young. Yes, the Elizabeth, whom Booker rescues from Infinite, dies horribly by bludgoning at the hands of Atlas/aka Fontaine.įuthermore, Elizabeth states: "Our world values children, not childhood. ![]() This game was good mechanically, but horrible plotwise.
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