The first story-based DLC for BioShock Infinite - Burial at Sea: Episode One – is almost here and BioShock fans have good reason to get excited: it's fantastic. More specifically? Well, for me it has four very considerable strengths*, so let's run through them.
Rapture – the underwater dystopian world introduced in BioShock – is one of the all-time great video game settings, and Burial at Sea takes us back there, and does so with style. What makes this return so special is we see Rapture in its heyday. Well, mostly in its heyday. Burial at Sea, you see, is set on December 31, 1958 – a significant date in Rapture lore, and a time at which its utopian façade is gradually coming apart and internal factions are gearing up for conflict.
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