![]() ![]() "Obviously I don't feel the game is racist - you have to look pretty far past the very clear meaning of things to think that. ![]() Levine has read all this and is ready to defend his work: BioShock Infinite presents a veneer of intelligence." "BioShock Infinite seeks not to make any meaningful statement about history or racism or America," wrote Golding "but instead seeks to use an aesthetics of 'racism' and 'history' as a barrier to point to and claim importance. BIOSHOCK INFINITE RACISM FULL"I've insulated myself from any games writing on Infinite until now so as not to bias myself," explained Alexander "but it's the Quentin Tarantino school of social issues - present a world full of prejudice so you can feel progressive, 'adult' for using racial slurs. Leigh Alexander and Dan Golding wrote the most high-profile responses: After earning high praise from the enthusiast press, blogs and essays starting calling BioShock Infinite racist and pretentious. Typically, a game with guns comes out and everyone either likes it, thinks it's ok or doesn't like it. More so than with any first-person shooter of the last fiscal, the response to BioShock Infinite has been mixed. I'd much rather work on something where we set a really high goal and almost get there, than do what we've done before - do it in our sleep." "I'm very happy with the choices we made and I think the game is a lot of different things to different people. Even if they're frustrated because they would have preferred something different, it's better than debating whether a gun should have had higher DPS (damage per second) on it, or something. "The fact people are debating which thematic element we chose to pursue is something I view as a positive. "It's not often you get asked about how the ramifications of racial bias were pursued in a game," he explains. Has anything changed? Levine is optimistic: ![]() Now, in mid-2013, the Democrats are busy rolling out their plan to fight global warming and Infinite has sold 3.7 million units. This was last November, before Obama won a second term, and when BioShock Infinite was still six months from release. "Exhaustingly the same" was how Ken Levine previously described American politics to me. ![]()
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