![]() ![]() ![]() This brings us back to the idea of the game as a game. Secondly in terms of story and themes, what are we really learning here? That racism is bad? That religious fanaticism is bad? A huge amount has been talked about the Bioshock: Infinite story but the elephant in the room is that if the story is written before you even install the game then it is a bad story. on a mechanical level this is the sort of thing that was done better in Half Life back in 1998. The mechanics, the arbitrary limitations, the repetition of it all. That the actual game part of the game has been relegated to the fringes of the experience is evidenced by just how below-par the combat actually is. ![]() That’s the stuff you do to pad the running time out. It tells us that the story is written and the game, that bit that you’re paying for, the bit that really anything calling itself a game ought to be focused on, that’s just filler. Everything takes place in a series of arena battles, with the plot occurring in the times between them. You will start to receive emails from The New Statesman.įirst, and most obviously, it’s a first person shooter and it’s a conspicuously bad one. SUBSCRIBED THANK YOU Thank you for subscribing. ![]()
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