In the final game, 1999 Mode is a fairly standard ultra-hard difficulty that has very few of these aspects, retaining only a mild monetary cost for death. This would have transformed the game into something like System Shock 2, complete with the player choosing a class at its outset, and being unable to remove the Nostrums/Gear that they equipped, making every choice a major commitment. Perhaps the biggest casualty of the game's final stretch of development was Levine's ambitious plans for 1999 Mode. Other major changes included the reworking of Nostrums into Gear, which were set to be Infinite's version of Gene Tonics, as well as additional weapons, enemies, and levels left on the cutting room floor. This was replaced with a more generic mana pool system in the final game. For example, originally, the player would pick up individual Tonics by exploring the world, with each bottle being a single use. Over the years, director Ken Levine and others have acknowledged that BioShock Infinite experienced significant design troubles during its lengthy development. Similarly, the fact that Booker is limited to carrying two weapons at a time (one of the all-time worst design conceits in FPS history) means that you're usually stuck using the same guns over and over, even when you'd prefer to try something new. Elizabeth's tear powers are somewhat interesting at first glance, but they basically boil down to giving you either cover or resources, and it gets old fast.
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Sure, there's the Skyhook traversal system, which allows the game's gunfights more scale and verticality, but it's not used to its full potential. While there's nothing wrong with changing the mechanics of a series, Infinite doesn't add much to replace them. Infinite removes several other staples of the immersive sim genre, including the ability to hack objects-there's no Pipedream-inspired minigame here. Infinite also lacks the research camera system, a key non-combat mechanic of the original two games, and an important part of their identity. Not only does it have fewer Vigors than both previous BioShock entries had Plasmids, it replaces the Gene Tonics system with a generic Gear system that allows for much less customization than in BioShock 1 and 2.
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The FPS part of this so-called " FPS RPG" series is tuned to max, and the RPG part is nearly cast away entirely. Though ostensibly intended as the true successor to the original BioShock, Infinite simplifies the mechanics of the "immersive sim"-inspired series to the absolute minimum. The by-the-numbers nature of BioShock Infinite is perhaps most apparent in its moment-to-moment gameplay.
Once you go beyond the social media furor and the thwarted expectations, you have a game that ultimately failed to live up to the identity of its own series-and one that deserves neither the seemingly-bottomless stores of love and hate that some still heap on it. It continues to garner polarized reactions 10 years later, perhaps to an alarming extent. When it released in March 2013, it generated enormous fanfare, inspiring strong stances from both excited series fans and those who felt let down by the final product. If you're reading this, odds are that you have some opinion of BioShock Infinite, and it's likely to be a passionate one. Below, we reexamine the game with modern eyes, in the context of its place in the series as a whole. BioShock is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, March 26, 2023.
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