Oh Sweet Jesus Christ. The game by the creators of the original Bioshock has been revealed: Bioshock Infinite. Retarded title, whatever. What is it? It’s Bioshock atop a floating city, as opposed to an underwater haven. What is it? Absolutely fucking gorgeous, and epic. I don’t think any other game could have me geeking out like this, the original Bioshock being one of my favorite games of all time.

Kotaku:

Levine began explaining the game to his audience. Infinite is set in the early 1910s. Its main setting is Columbia, a city that floats on balloons and drifted across an ascendant United States, showing the accomplishments of a post-Civil War American ready to express its idea of excellence.

“Something terrible happens,” Levine said, establishing the stakes and the mystery. Columbia proves to be something worse than a beacon of prosperity. “This is not a floating world’s fair. Columbia is a Death Star.” In the lead-up to the events of Infinite, Columbia is embroiled in an international incident of unspecified horror and then disappears into the clouds. Our character, a “disgruntled former Pinkerton agent” named Booker DeWitt, is contacted by a mysterious man who knows where Columbia is. In that city, DeWitt is told, is Elizabeth, a woman who has been raised there and who the man wants rescued. DeWitt accepts the mission, which will be ours as a player: to rescue Elizabeth and, with her super-powered help, get out of the patriotic-turned-violent Columbia.

So it seems to be another deconstruction of American ideals and the forces behind them, this time in a different although seemingly thematically similar place. I cannot fucking wait. Oh jesus.

Hit the jump for the trailer.

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