Product Description:
This Premium Edition of BioShock Infinite is teeming with ardently crafted collectible items: a Handyman board game figurine, a Murder of Crows keychain, and a lithograph poster-all designed by the same Irrational Games artists who created BioShock Infinite. This edition is a must-have for any BioShock fan, featuring exclusive in-game gear, a digital soundtrack, and an art book that offers a look at the making of the game’s unique art style.
Indebted to the wrong people, and with his life on the line, hired gun Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia. Forced to trust one another, Booker and Elizabeth form a powerful bond during their daring escape. Together, they learn to harness an expanding arsenal of weapons and abilities, as they fight on zeppelins in the clouds, along high-speed Sky-Lines, and down in the streets of Columbia, all while surviving the threats of the air-city and uncovering its dark secret.
Product Details:
- The City in the Sky - Leave the depths of Rapture to soar among the clouds of Columbia. The flying city is a beautiful and vibrant world that holds a very dark secret.
- Unlikely Mission - Set in 1912 former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt must rescue a mysterious girl from the sky-city of Columbia or never leave it alive.
- Tear Through Time - Open Tears in time and space to shape the battlefield and turn the tide in combat by pulling weapons and other resources out of thin air.
- Vigorous Powers - Throw explosive fireballs and shoot lightning as devastatingly powerful Vigors surge through your body to be unleashed against all that oppose you.
- 1999 Mode - Open your own Tear to 1999 to experience the design and balance that hardcore gamers enjoyed back in the 20th century.
Customer Reviews:
An Amazing Game... By Susan Miller
To sum it up, this game is amazing. Absolutely amazing. It's fascinating. It's truly gruesome. It's fun. It's unique.
The series itself is mysterious and this game is no different my friends.
This game is a masterpiece. You have to love a game that is built not to please everyone, or to appeal to the biggest demographic of the lowest common denominator. Bioware Infinite is about a development team trying to realise their creative vision. This is a very fun shooter, but by no means is it the kind of shooter that is going to inspire thousands of hours of shooting. So in some sense it is not a stella shooter, and it isn't trying to be one.
This game is not competing with Call of Duty. Nor is it a role playing game. The roles are all set. It's fairly short, its mostly linear, and its rather simply a game that focuses on Story. In many ways it is thus a pretty short, linear and LIMITED game. It's more or less a single session story-game. But WHAT a story! It's great! Bioshock Infinite creates a small world but it builds it with huge passion and care. It has so many philosophical angles and social issues oozing out of every pore, it will definitely give gamers things to think about.
The graphics are so mesmerizing, I almost forget to move on with the game play. The setting, the story, the way Elizabeth interacts with you--I am stunned and in awe--This game was fun without being frustrating in combat and challenges-- PERFECTION--PURE PERFECTION.
The mechanics are the same with some refinements but nothing mind blowing..and that's ok. The wheel didn't need to be reinvented.
Pros: -Beautiful artistic graphics and memorable soundtrack. -As atmospheric as the original Bioshock. -One of the darkest stories I have ever seden in a videogame. -Mind-boggling ending -Elizabeth is the best AI partner in gaming history. -Skylines feel like rollercoasters in the sky, don't get queazy! -Combining vigors in combat is pure ecstasy. Cons: -Handyman fights can get tedious. -Some glitches where you can get stuck in terrain etc. (fairly rare) -Elizabeth can be a little annoying sometimes with her over eagerness in and out of combat. -The game ends....14 hours for my first playthrough.
Ultimately this is an absolutely outstanding game; a new benchmark for game developers to strive for... have no hesitation if you are considering wether or not to buy this game... this is pure art expressed masterfully. It's short though but it is sweet. Every once in a while a game comes out that blows your socks off. This game goes above in beyond in all areas. Superior story telling, combat, atmosphere, music. You feel immersed in the world and unable to quit playing. The details in the areas show the care given by the development team. This game was not rushed and will serve as proof to what games can accomplish. This game accomplishes what Half-Life did for its time period. I think Ken Levine said it best when referred to games as a better medium than movies and books because you pilot them. You get to participate and experience them. This is nothing short of a masterpiece and should be purchased by everyone.
Normally I would never give a game 10/10, but Bioshock Infinite ticks all the boxes. Just like the first game did. Infinite has exciting gameplay, with various ways to approach encounters. You have Elizabeth there to help. She gives you ammo, salt and health when you need it. She can also open rips in the world to give you the edge in combat. The graphics are amazing, mixed with excellent use of lighting and sound. the world is truly amazing. I love the way that it is specifically a different experience to the previous games. There you are stuck in Rapture, a claustrophobic, dark and broken city. Here we have a huge open beaming world, with light. It's still terribly evil though All that aside this game is absolutely amazing and If a game is better than this in the next 2 years I will be very surprised. GOTY for sure.
I will update along the way if anything changes like I do in my other reviews.
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My Rig: Rig: Intel i7-2600k @3.40 GHz, with 16GB of RAM, GeForce GTX 580 GPU (SLI)Horrible Collector's Edition- Not worth the additional investment. By Timkins
THIS REVIEW IS BASED OFF OF THE $80 VERSION'S CONTENT ONLY AND DOES NOT INCLUDE THE GAME'S REVIEW YET. REVIEW WILL CHANGE ONCE GAME FINISHES INSTALLING IN 50 YEARS OR HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES.
The package arrived today and I was excited to pick it up! The previous Bioshock's CE (Collector's Edition) was outstanding and as an avid collector, I was looking forward to add this alongside my other CEs. Upon receiving the package, I was immediately shocked at how small it was. Opening it up, I was greeted with disappointment at how small the box was. It was no different than a typical game DVD and only about twice as thick. This was already a bad sign as I expected the contents within to be bigger as shown on both the Bioshock Infinite website and the initial picture on this product page.
Indeed, everything proved to be more than underwhelming. The game case was the same as a normal edition and didn't even come with separate CD folders. The 3 CDs were stacked on top of each other. No real manual either but that's to be expected from every company these days, unfortunately. So let's move on to the real stuff. The art book. Smaller than the DVD case but that's how big it looked in the advertisement. I liked that the outer cover was made of cloth, like a hardcover book. The content however was boring. The insult came at the last page, which was an advertisement for *another* art book, this one made of leather and looking much more impressive, not to mention thicker. I'm not trying to sound entitled or pretentious here. I didn't expect the pages to be made of gold or anything, but I definitely expected more effort put into a Collector's Edition rather than the bare minimum.
Moving on! A plastic envelope accompanied the book. I opened it up and lo and behold, I set my eyes upon the lithograph- except it was anything but that. It was a tiny slightly thicker-grade paper postcard, as opposed to the larger sized version that is clearly seen on the product advertisement. Not to mention, it fails in all regard to even fall under the proper definition of what lithography even means. Dictionary.com- look up lithography. It sure doesn't mean "Cheaply mass produced image copied on a piece of paper." I didn't expect a canvas medium masterpiece or anything but this is just all sorts of false advertisement!
Next up. Keychain. What's to say? Cheap plastic, but whatever. No real qualms. At least the size was as expected.
And the last piece. The Handyman figurine. Can I even call it that? Mine is a hunk of melted looking plastic, the size of a quarter. It doesn't even come CLOSE to resembling what you see on the product page or even worse, the game website. Displaying this would be utterly shameful in my opinion- it just looks that terrible, if you're able to even spot it. I don't know what they were thinking. This is supposed to be for some board game? Yeah, definitely not buying that.
What about those 3 coins you see in the center of this product page? I thought those looked neat. Well too bad, because they don't even exist. That's right, those are apparently the digital powerups that I acquire in the game, despite having completely different images.
This was the most atrocious Collector's Edition that I've invested in. No, I didn't get the stupid looking Songboard. 70 more bucks for something that is probably no bigger than the box itself? You have to be kidding me. This version wasn't even worth the additional 20. This is how bad it is: Duke Nukem Forever's Collector's Edition (Which I believe cost a little less at initial release- I didn't buy it but unfortunately my brother did) was better than this garbage. Is this product going to share the space of say, Blizzards vastly superior Collector's Editions? Not a chance.
So what about the game itself? Great question! You see, the game came with 3 DVDs which intrigued me, considering most PC games just come in 1 these days, not to mention this being a Steam-required game. I stuck the first disc in and the installation began... at a snail's pace. I could seriously download the game more quickly. Suddenly, the installation stopped without a prompt to even stick in Disc 2 and it began "downloading" on Steam. I tried sticking in Disc 2- nothing happened. There wasn't any way to resume installation so I don't even know why the hell there are 3 discs in the first place.
Still downloading though. The game itself might be the next best thing this planet needs but considering the utter failure that I've witnessed so far, I won't hold my breath. Once I actually play the game, I'll change my rating to include the gameplay but so far, my money would be better invested in a couple pizzas and beer.
1/5 BASED OFF OF THE $80 VERSION'S BOX AND CONTENT ALONE AS COMPARED TO OTHER GAME PRODUCTS OF EQUIVALENT WORTH.The game is AMAZING, this "premium" version isn't. By Chris
I'd hate to have to give this 2 stars, but it is the premium edition of the game, and not the game itself. What's so bad about it?? For one the lithograph isn't really a lithograph, it's like they went online looked for a picture and printed tons of them on white paper, cut them, and stuck them in the box, the book is practically a pamphlet to buy an even better artbook with more art. Like i said the 2 stars is for this edition, the game itself is 5 stars. Buy the game itself not this sad excuse of a premium edition.
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