![]() Not an action game with half-baked stealth elements, like the first episode this is a full-on, crouching in a corner, sneaking-up-on-enemies-from-behind, using-a-crossbow-to-knock-out-guards stealth game. Here's the first, most unexpected thing about Burial at Sea Episode 2: It's a stealth game. (Though we shall not, apparently, speak of BioShock 2, an underrated game that, at least in the timeline of BioShock Infinite, apparently never really happened.) The story is both BioShock Infinite epilogue and BioShock prologue, and while it manages the latter feat more ably than the former, it achieves both tasks with a surprising measure of success. Episode 2 is for the fans specifically, the fans of the first BioShock. If this all sounds pretty twisty and back-referency, that's because it is. Atlas has her, and will only release her and spare Elizabeth if she helps get their submerged wing of Rapture back up to the main city so that Atlas can launch the revolution that sets the stage for the first BioShock. Elizabeth is wracked with guilt over the fate of Sally, the little-girl-turned-little-sister she used as bait for Comstock in the first episode. In short order, Elizabeth has been forced to make a deal with the treacherous revolutionary Atlas-who, as we who played the first BioShock know, is really the villain Frank Fontaine in disguise. In a matter of minutes, everything that seemed to (sort of) make sense at the end of episode one has been turned on its ear, and it's off to the metaphysical races once more. Of course, picking up "immediately after" the first chapter doesn't really mean much in the multiverse of BioShock Infinite. Burial's second episode picks up more or less immediately after the events at the end of the ( generally disappointing) first episode, with Elizabeth finally completing the circle by going to the first BioShock's underwater city of Rapture and hunting down and killing the final Booker/Comstock. Spoilers follow for BioShock, BioShock Infinite and Burial at Sea Episode 1.īurial at Sea has long promised to let us finally step into the shoes of Elizabeth, the young woman who in BioShock Infinite alternated as sidekick, damsel in distress, sad woman in need of comfort, super-powered plot device, and eventually, harbinger of the apocalypse. This week, as I played the second, final episode of Infinite's Burial at Sea expansion, I felt like I got glimpse of that game. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Somewhere, in some parallel dimension, there's a BioShock Infinite that I liked a lot more than the one I played in this dimension. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content. ![]() Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection. ![]()
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