What starts as a promising noir detective story ends with a predictable and sloppy twist. If you paid attention during the game for Infinite, the clues are all placed well in advance in a heavy handed manner for this DLC. The ending of Burial at Sea is extremely telegraphed. We were led to believe we would get a grand look at Rapture before the fall, and the scope we got was so small it's not really worth it. I spent a lot of time roaming and looking at all the posters and listening to conversations, and I still beat it in under 3 hours. Even with a Motorized Patriot as a distracting piece.īurial at Sea's biggest problem is brevity. Such as the last battle- good luck using the rails there- out of the 5 times I hopped on to get away, I was snagged off immediately 4 of them. They could've given us a giant building to explore with a massive Skyhook system linking all the floors together, but no, we are given a couple of tiny enclosed areas where the rails are almost useless. Because this section of Rapture we are confined to is so sparse it feels shoehorned in. Then there's the Air-Grabber the renamed Skyhook from Infinite. There isn't enough salt or enemies to effectively lay traps and have a good time with the fighting. And while I thoroughly enjoy using the new Plasmid Old Man Winter and then microwaving splicers into exploding with the new weapon-Radar Range- it's disappointing because there's barely anyone to use them on. There are now respawning enemies,which should be a nice addition, but there just aren't enough to go around.

The rarity of finding ammo and salts is still around. Ryan gather up these human foreshadows into one place- a large group of them and then cut them off? We get to witness only a couple dozen of the first to crack- why haven't some of the ones displaying signs get herded into the mix?Īs for the combat- it is sadly disappointing. Or- if he could see what was coming, why wouldn't Mr. There are so few splicers there that it makes me question why bother? Just send in one or two people to mop up a few mad splicers. That leads me to my next thought- why would Ryan sink Fontaine's building when it was so devoid of people. This particular piece of Rapture, be it the original or a slightly different one, just feels empty. It just isn't enough to be as immersive as any of the main games themselves. Familiar name drops, seeing the already disturbed artist Sander Cohen beginning to crack, and the start of the populace becoming suspicious of Ryan only adds the slightest touch of depth that Rapture once held.

There are small conversational bits you can overhear about people questioning Andrew Ryan's choices. Wasn't this supposed to be a flourishing undersea paradise? Where the hell is everyone? Anyway- our view of pre-fall Rapture is severely limited, and it feels very small and underpopulated. My initial complaint about this game is that we don't really get to explore the pre-ruin Rapture. The chance to see him do it firsthand would make an excellent addition to his backstory.Burial at Sea Part 1 sees our already known, but slightly older Elizabeth (confirmed to be the one from Infinite) paying a visit to a new version of Booker DeWitt in what could very well be one of an infinite number of slightly varied versions of Rapture- which would explain things like the difference in how the Plasmids are used. As Booker told Elizabeth on the First Ladys airship dock, putting down uprisings was his specialty as a Pinkerton. This was Booker the Pinkerton showing through his Comstock facade. government had ordered Columbia to stand down, but Comstock insisted on crushing the rebellion in Peking. It was at this time that Comstock decided that it was best to cut ties and secede from the United States. The Boxer Rebellion did not shape Booker (or Comstock, as he was called then) personally, but rather shaped all of Columbia. Being given the opportunity to experience the events that caused Booker to start down the path to Columbia would give us even more insight on why a city in the clouds seemed like the best path of escape from his worldly troubles. That battle was a major turning point in his life, and would make a fascinating addition to the BioShock Infinite story. Booker DeWitt was scarred by the Battle of Wounded Knee until he turned to religion to wipe away his sins.

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