In exchange for his gambling debts being forgiven, the main protagonist of Infinite, Booker DeWitt, enters Columbia in order to retrieve Elizabeth, unaware that she is his long lost daughter Anna DeWitt. To prevent her from leaving Columbia, her captors employ a "siphon" which drains and limits her powers, and she is locked in a tower guarded by a giant mechanical bird called the Songbird. Elizabeth has the power to open "tears" in the fabric of reality she is able to view every event across all of the infinite timelines simultaneously and effortlessly open doorways to them, allowing her to access parallel universes. Elizabeth has been groomed in a controlled environment to take over the reins of the city once its current leader, Father Zachary Hale Comstock, dies. The game is set in 1912 on a floating steampunk city named Columbia which was founded on the principles of American exceptionalism. Her appearance and attire changes several times over the course of the game.Įlizabeth is a fictional character in Irrational Games' BioShock Infinite, the third title in the BioShock series. Robertson explained that Irrational was not afraid to leave the city of Rapture, or otherwise be tied to traditions from the original game.Elizabeth as she first appears in BioShock Infinite. ![]() The possibility brings new meaning to what both Levine and Robertson repeated at the BioShock Infinite premiere: There will be no "sacred cows" in the development of this game. So, will racism and xenophobia merely serve as a backdrop in BioShock Infinite, or will these themes be expressed overtly through the gameplay? BioShock's moral choice of whether to kill a possessed little girl is politically tame in comparison to asking players to deal with game characters based on their race or ethnicity. Immigration is the hottest of hot-button issues. civilians regularly patrol the country's southern border. In the fictional city of Columbia, all non-European immigrants must list their religious affiliation (mono- or polytheist?) in addition to cranial measurements, complexion and other data used in the study of eugenics (pictured above).Ĭould foreigners be the new Little Sisters in BioShock Infinite? Consider that in 2010, armed U.S. ![]() This tag, inconspicuously attached to bags given away at the BioShock Infinite premiere, further illustrates the racism at the heart of Columbia. And then I went to bed and went to sleep and slept soundly. And one night late it came to me this way – I don't know how it was, but it came: (1) That we could not give them back to Spain – that would be cowardly and dishonorable (2) that we could not turn them over to France or Germany – our commercial rivals in the Orient – that would be bad business and discreditable (3) that we could not leave them to themselves – they were unfit for self-government – and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was and (4) that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow men for whom Christ also died. ![]() ![]() I walked the floor of the White House night after night until midnight and I am not ashamed to tell you, gentlemen, that I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance more than one night.
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