You’ll have to wait a little longer to visit BioShock Infinite‘s theocratic dystopia-in-the-sky: Creative lead Ken Levine says the company has decided to push back the release to February 26, 2013 in order to “give our talented team the time they need.”
Very few games have the kind of anticipation surrounding them that BioShock Infinite does. The first BioShock came out in 2007 and got hailed as a modern-day classic almost immediately for the way it wove character development, environmental design and philosophical underpinnings into a chilling and hypnotic experience.
Nothing entertains more than a good “BEST EVAR!!!!11!!!!1!” argument. Video games have been around more than three decades, making it the latest medium to incite impassioned debate about what example of the form reins supreme over everything else.
Adventure!, Half-Life 2, Final Fantasy VII… the argument about what the greatest video games of all time are has raged since the medium went mainstream. But, now, one of America’s greatest artistic and educational institutions tries to settle the debate, one mouse-click at a time.
You know what pain is? Pain is having to wait TWO WHOLE YEARS for a game you want in your hands now. In this case, that game is Bioshock Infinite, which marks the return of Ken Levine and the Irrational Games studio to the franchise they created in 2007.
After last night’s mindblowing introduction to BioShock Infinite, Evan and I sat down with the Ken Levine, you know, the guy behind the original BioShock to chat about his new baby. Be sure to check out our preview and the teaser trailer here.
Word has been abuzz that Irrational Games–the development studio centered around creative Ken Levine that made the 2K Games best-seller BioShock–would be announcing its long-brewing new game very soon. Of course, anticipation has been high.
Once again we’re transported back to Rapture, but 10 years after the events that transpired in the first “BioShock” story and we find ourselves trampling through the underwater city as a Big Daddy. I won’t give away any of the story or plot lines because without them, “BioShock 2” is more or less the same [...]
