Bioshock Infinite is one of my favorite stories. It’s deep, complex, thrilling, sobering, weird, tragic, horrifying, and subtly beautiful, and it’s told in a way uniquely suited to it’s sophisticated sci-fi premise.
It’s also a first-person shooter filled with dumb and gruesome violence.
For that (and other) reasons, this amazing story has gone largely unappreciated, despite the game’s popularity.
I hope to rectify that with Bioshock Infinite, Abridged, Explained. The first part of the project (Abridged) has been completed. I recorded a playthrough of the game and then edited that playthrough down to a movie-length 2 hours and 38 minutes. I omitted non-essential subplots and almost all of the combat in order to just tell the story.
That video is here:
In addition, I’ve divided the movie up into five acts:
These five acts will correspond to the five videos in the second part of the project, Bioshock Infinite Explained, which I am currently working on. The Explained videos will feature my commentary on the plot, themes, and character relationships in the story. It some ways Infinite is a difficult story, and I hope that my commentary will help people understand it.