Levine: "We Never Thought of Infinite As BioShock 3"
by Nicholas Taylor, posted on 20 August 2010 / 1,431 Views
When speaking to VG247, Ken Levine, creative director at Irrational Games, told them that he never thought of BioShock Infinite as part 3 of the series, but as a completely new game. When speaking to Keza Macdonald at gamescom, he said that Irrational would rather make a fresh start than look back at previous games.
“We never thought of it (Infinite) as BioShock 3, as a follow-on to BioShock 2, but at the same time it is totally a BioShock game. We look at BioShock games differently, as the guys who created it,” he says.
“Here’s why we believe this is a BioShock game: it’s set in a world that’s ridiculous and fantastical and over the top, but still connected to the human experience very much. It feels like it could be a real place. The second thing is that you have this suite of powers so that you drive how you play the game, as much as you can.”
He goes on to explain that “For us, that is a BioShock game. Everything else – the location, Big Daddies, Little Sisters, all those things that seem so iconic – that is underneath what I mentioned in the hierarchy, in terms of what’s important to make BioShock game. I think it was never just about Rapture. It’s about a certain dynamic that we wanted to continue to explore.”
“If we had made something that had those components and wasn’t a BioShock game, I think people would be asking us, well, why isn’t this called BioShock? It feels so similar. And that’s our mission – to make something that feels familiar but which is different at the same time.” he finishes.
BioShock Infinite is set for release in 2012 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
