{"id":623,"date":"2013-11-12T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=623"},"modified":"2013-11-12T20:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:43:25","slug":"bioshock-infinite-burial-at-sea-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well they certainly took their sweet time working on this.\u00a0 Bioshock Infinite had become a poster child for why season passes being available on day 1 are a bad idea &#8211; aside from a mostly arena combat chunk earlier in the year, things were very quiet on some actual story DLC.\u00a0 Announced a few months ago, Burial At Sea is a two part story, which is set in &#8230; Rapture!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re taken back to a time where Rapture is at its height.\u00a0 Booker DeWitt is still an alcoholic private investigator in this universe, and he&#8217;s visited by Elizabeth who hires him to find a girl who is &#8216;missing&#8217;.\u00a0 That&#8217;s as much story as the trailer reveals, and as much as I&#8217;m going to cover here.\u00a0 Elizabeth is a brilliant character again, remixed into a film noir femme fatale, and I appreciated having her wandering around Rapture with me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W8JF_UP5IFE\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Irrational Games have done a good job of bringing Rapture back to life, and they&#8217;ve done so with mostly new graphical assets.\u00a0 However, your time in the thriving Rapture is limited and the game soon takes you to a deserted part of the city which looks nearly as run down as in the first game.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about that, but having splicers running amok before the fall wouldn&#8217;t have made sense at all.\u00a0 Graphics are excellent throughout anyway, frame rate generally stays around 30fps but can drop in close combat.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been much said about the cost of the DLC given that it&#8217;s 1\/4 of the original price of the full Infinite game, but honestly now that I&#8217;ve completed it (which a little over 4 hours on hard hunting around for secrets), it doesn&#8217;t seem unreasonable.\u00a0 My advice is don&#8217;t plough directly through the story on normal difficulty, take time to savour what&#8217;s on offer.<\/p>\n<p>After the ending, I&#8217;m very much looking forward to part 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well they certainly took their sweet time working on this.\u00a0 Bioshock Infinite had become a poster child for why season passes being available on day 1 are a bad idea &#8211; aside from a mostly arena combat chunk earlier in the year, things were very quiet on some actual story DLC.\u00a0 Announced a few months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}