It just felt so restricting and simple aka consolish. Hard difficulty wasn't even hard, while the hardest part in the game was finding and saving ammo on the later part, so I could continue oneshotting everyone with headshots by using the carbine rifle. Shooting just wasn't fun - It felt so weird and clumsy form the first moment. Hence the differences in opinion over the game.īioshock infinite works overall as a game very good. For people that stop to revel in that kind of detail, the game will likely be much more meaningful to them. If you're the kind who just runs through and anything you cannot interact with, pick up, or shoot is to be ignored, then I think you'll miss most of the charm and immersiveness of this game. It also shows testing results as she grows older, which ties into her powers as revealed later. There's even a tampon from her menarche (her first menstruation), showing how they had been doing additional testing of different sorts. They didn't just put in some generic jars to say it holds blood, etc. Or also in her tower when you see the info about the experiments they have done on her. Later in the game when you get a coded note from her, it actually works with that cipher. For example, in Elizabeth's tower there is a chalkboard showing her creating/decoding some kind of cipher.

Even things that might just be backdrops turn out to have some kind of further connection. But I must say that the attention to detail in the Bioshock Infinite world is incredible, and things you miss the first time you may only see the second, third, or fourth time through. I can't say because I never played Half-Life.

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