Playing BioShock Infinite while Mom watches         Comments (5)
really didn't grasp any of the themes that Bioshock Infinite
wants to point out to. It's a first person shooter, the gameplay
requires you to shoot and kill your opponents in all kind of
gruesome ways as you escape the grand paradise of Columbia. It's
impossible to change the fundamental mechanic of this genre. As
you already said, in its early stage the game becomes a critique
of religious extremism, ultra-nationalism, jingoism and racist
bigotry. Then comes the long awaited Revolution fueled by the
class war that was already ensuing in Columbia between the Vox
and the Founders, a rebellion that was expected to bring a
better life for the oppressed but it brought even more suffering
and bloodshed. This event is more of a reconstruction of the
communist and anarchist movements that spread all around the
world and culminated in the 1917 marxist revolution in Russia
and we all know bad it went. The main plot of the game however
is filled with conc