Bioshock Infinite (published in 2013 designed by Ken Levine) is a First person shooter game based on Imaginary city
called ‘Columbia’ built in 1893. It is a alternative historical city which is similar concept of previous game (Bioshock 1,2) where it placed hidden under water city. However it have very different architectural charters because Columbia is based on parallel universe of real history meanwhile Rapture(Bioshock 1 underwater city) more based on dystopian lost city.
Sky lines
Hooks
It is formed by floating buildings generated by over technology
steampunk machines underneath of lands. As a way of roads people use zip
lines called ‘Sky lines’ to transport shipment or people with
automatic magnetic hooks. In the game player have to use this line to move around the city and some times battle can be happen while player is on air which make game play more dynamic.
Zachary Hale Comstock
In the game Columbia shows pre-world war time of American extreme
nationalism which can be seen through liner story process as posters or
sculptures. In a story line there is only one government party(The Founders) ruling the city and on top of that they worship Comstock as a living god who is founder of the city. He uses religion and racism to rule the city which he made his citizen to become extreme Xenophobia. As a result white supremacy dominate city's culture greatly. It lead great depth in the gap between rich(white) and poor(foreigners) alternatively caused revolution.
Vox Populi(Voice of the people) is a opposition group against the founders and it mainly formed with foreigners. As the founders use blue as a primary colour for their military they use red which it is a symbolic colour for revolution.
This
imaginary city fascinate me as it is mixture of nearly impossible
materials with existing history. Floating 19th century steampunk city have
unusual impressive visuals to me. In fact it is a combination of new visual impact on me because it is totally different design where i came from. Beside of magnificent background I also like the story as it is heavily based on multidimensional theory like city itself.
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