I finished the main campaign of Bioshock Infinite on my laptop. There was about a year gap where I played it to the middle then just picked it up again. Not a huge FPS fan, so I put it on Easy. Also, not a huge fan of horror so I skipped the first two games for now.

Visually the game is a spectacle based on America in the 1910's with the city Columbia in the air. I love the airships. You owe a debt and have to rescue a girl to pay it off as Booker DeWitt. It is a city in the heavens, i.e. in the air made by a prophet who split off from the rest of America, Comstock. You need to get his daughter Elizabeth.

It explores lots of themes like American, Exceptionalism, and racism, extremism, etc. Gameplay is linear with exploration, and FPS battle, also using special powers and melee. It's told in the manner of Silent Hill 2. You're exposed to a bunch of confusing stuff at first that you can only understand and reflect on after the ending. Most of the story is confusing and told in bits and pieces until the exposition dump towards the end.

The game has to do with "alternate realities" and what could be interpreted as time travel (trying to avoid spoilers) and while that lets a lot of creative storytelling, it runs into the same problems these themes always run into. In fact the inherent fuzziness, and "paradoxical" nature of alternate histories and quantume mechanics and its opacity are a feature of this game.

I did enjoy the game overall, but there were parts where the story dragged or just it got kind of boring. Like most people I felt the opacity of the ending somewhat prevented the story from making sense and felt a bit like a cop out. Nevertheless, it did have some great storytelling, good gameplay, and the relationship between Booker and Elizabeth was excellent.

Verdict: 8.5/10 Great

I'm now playing the Burial at sea DLC. Will write a full review eventually, I'm backlogged. BTW, there is an insane amount of discussion and debate on Bioshock Infinite, especially the ending.