#BIOSHOCK INFINITE SONGBIRD FREE#
Of course, this is still very much a BioShock title, and not only does Infinite tread on similar narrative themes of politics and free will, it soon begins to unravel even stranger domains of time, space, constants, variables, and everything in between.
Gameplay retains a mix of gunplay and assorted superpowers (instead of Rapture's gene-splicing "plasmids", Columbia provides quantum-powered "vigors"), but Infinite is more of a swashbuckling run-and-gunner amidst vast environments, with the Sky-Lines scattered across the city allowing for dynamic shootouts in the open air. Infinite begins as a stark departure from the previous BioShock titles, as not only are the setting and plot in a completely different universe from Rapture, the experience shifts away from horror and instead treads more into action. They must work together to escape the powderkeg that is Columbia, all while evading the dreaded Songbird: a deranged robotic guardian determined to stop Elizabeth from ever leaving. Tension is bubbling under the surface between two opposing factions: The Founders, an ultra-nationalist, xenophobic and fundamentalist ruling class led by "Father" Zachary Hale Comstock and the Vox Populi (led by the radical Daisy Fitzroy), a movement who once sought fair and just working conditions for the underclass of Columbia, but has since degenerated into a terrorist group fuelled by blind hatred and bent on shooting everything on sight.īooker soon discovers that Elizabeth holds an incredible power within her, one that Father Comstock is determined to keep under his control.
There, he must extract a young woman named Elizabeth and bring her unharmed to his Mysterious Employers in New York.īut all is not well in the city of Columbia, once heralded as an embodiment of The American Dream. He finds himself sent to Columbia, a floating city that was once the pride of the United States before it went rogue and became a sovereign city. Booker DeWitt is a washed-up ex- Pinkerton Detective whose gambling debts catch up to him and force him to accept one final chance to wipe the slate clean. Maybe someday we’ll actually figure these games out.BioShock Infinite is the third game in the BioShock series, released in 2013. How did you feel about Burial at Sea’s ending? What do you think happened? Tell us your best theories in the comments below. These are just a few of the explanations people have come up with, but BioShock’s complicated narrative has room for plenty more. We don’t know the extent of her powers, so she could’ve gone back to that place after dying in Rapture, and through the magic of BioShock’s multiverse, somehow bring the last Booker with her, too. The Paris that we find Elizabeth in after her death in Episode One and before her resurrection in Episode Two could serve as some form of afterlife, or at least her idea of an afterlife where birds are singing and everyone knows her name. Others, like Raj Sound, took this one step further and wrote their own sentimental ending based on this premise of Booker and Elizabeth reuniting in Paris. That’s what was missing from the ending - some sort of resolution to the Booker-Elizabeth/father-daughter conflict.”
They write: “With both dead, it’s still a dark-enough ending, but I don’t think it would have killed Irrational to include a short scene showing that Booker and Elizabeth are at least happy and have reconciled in that Paris-Heaven place. On the Irrational Games forums, that’s the type of ending fountaincap wish they saw in Burial at Sea. If you’re feeling optimistic, you could interpret it as Booker surviving the aftermath of Columbia and finally being able to raise his daughter in peace.Īnother interesting idea is Elizabeth’s reconstruction of Paris as a kind of heaven. The main piece of evidence people bring up for this is Infinite’s ambiguous post-credits scene, where Booker wakes up in his office and checks to see if Anna is in her crib, but the screen cuts to black before we can see if she’s actually there. I saw multiple commenters saying they prefer to believe that Booker and Elizabeth are still together in another universe. Understandably, a few folks found the ending too depressing when it killed off the only other character left from BioShock Infinite. Image Credit: NeoGaf user Fixed2BeBroken Booker and Elizabeth are still together … somewhere
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