If there is one thing that is monstrously difficult to pull off in this day and age, it’s keeping something a secret.
Keeping secrets, however, seems to be a skill that Ken Levine and his boys at Irrational Games are very, very good at. Three years after releasing the original Bioshock, they have smacked everyone out of the blue by announcing a prequel, titled Bioshock Infinite.
There is a rather great trailer after the jump, and it will bring you straight back to the day that you saw the first CG trailer for the first BioShock. For those of you that can’t stream video, I have taken a whole bunch of screengrabs for you to check out until you can see it in motion.
Trailer, images and more after the jump.
Bioshock Infinite takes place in 1912, before the first Bioshock happened, in the floating city of Columbia.
Joystiq has a whole preview of the game up on their site, which you can view right here. But now, sit back and watch the awesome CG trailer.
And for those of you who can’t watch the video, here are all the screengrabs that I took, just for you!
While some people might groan at the strange idea of a Bioshock prequel in the sky (it sounds funny just saying it), I think this is actually looking pretty interesting. The change of tone from dark to light may prove to be quite different as well.
With Bioshock set under the ocean, the “time of day” was a constant, as it was always dark-under-the-water o’clock, but with Bioshock Infinity, it will be interesting to see if they include day/night cycles into the mix as well.
Bioshock Infinite will be releasing on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2012.
So then, now that you have seen the goods, let us know what you think.
Source: Joystiq
Last Updated: August 13, 2010
Moose
August 13, 2010 at 08:48
I think it looks awesome,actually sparks my interest now and a good direction for the company to take instead of just another undersea story,they should have gone for this instead of the second one.
Christo Le Grange
August 13, 2010 at 08:54
it is a nice twist…I’m loving it…first the Guild wars 2 trailer, now this…2 of the coolest trailers i’ve seen this year in a matter a week!
AC!D
August 13, 2010 at 10:04
I cant say im impressed after reading the Eurogamer preview. Electricity, telekineses and hurling crows ( Bee swarm plasmid ) at enemies just sounds like existing or variations on existing plasmids. The Frankenstein like monsters sound like Big daddy’s. The story is almost exactly the same except a country instead of a man builds the city. Even the enemies in the pics adopt a splicer like stance or animation. This seems like Bioshock in the sky. I cant believe Ken Levine has been working on this for 3 years and 4 by the time it releases. It seems like such a cop out and i would have prefered a new IP 🙁
west alabama dead beat
August 15, 2010 at 08:07
I loved System Shock 2, Bioshock and Bioshock 2. Needless to say I can imagine loving the crap outta this as well, although I think Bioshock Infinite is about the crappiest name anyone could have produced…. Ken Levine plz don’t be so lazy next time w/ the naming process, could have changed the name to AeroShock or something of that nature.