Ah c'mon! By 1910 blacks were already votin, interracial marriages were already happening, etc. Lincoln had already passed that 13th Amendment thing.

Also, not a great portrayal of our forefathers! They were used as symbols of hate!

I dunno man! Sometimes I'd like to think there is more to American history than racism and religious nuts. Who funded this game? MSNBC?

Movies have often criticized for trying to hard to be edgy or just being tasteless.

Bioshock Infinite didn't really seem as political as people made it out to be. Obviously the setting explores racism, worker and class unrest, taking advantage of religion and worship, extremism, and so on, but to me, the story seemed more about regret, redemption, and self-sacrifice.  Both Comstock's followers and the Vox Populi are portrayed negatively, and the story shifts to a much more personal focus during the second half of the game.

It's also important to understand that this is a story set in a fictional Columbia (a society that dislikes America and seceded from it), and it is Comstock and his followers that are corrupting the image of America's founders.

Yes they are, and so as many video games. The game shows how the problems of racism were at the time (with the fictional setting of Columbia), just because the game focuses on this issue (which is probably not the main one to begin with) it doesn't mean they are being over the top. It's like saying that The Great Debaters (a movie that touches very heavy racism subjects) is edgy and over the top because you see a black man being tortured by white people. 

They are both portrayed negatively and positively. When you enter Fintztown (I believe that's what's called) you see all this people dying of hunger. You understand why this people started the rebellion. The game shows both sides: 

1) The crazy Comstock followers who killed people and why the Vox Populi had to the things they do.

2) The crazy Vox Populi who killed innocent people who were just following a man, and never did harm to anyone.

If you are doing a game in that time period, it would take on exactly the overtones that it did, because the revivalism and racism seen in the game were a part of the cultural landscape.  And, with it looking at religious nationalism, it is natural for it to go in the direction it did.  The turn of the 20th century did have utopian overtones and belief in heaven on earth (or literally above the clouds).

I believe a big hook of Bioshock is it builds a world around a political ideology and takes it to an extreme.  You had the original Bioshock based around Objectivism, and the second was based around Utilitarianism.  Bioshock Infinite is based around religious nationalism.  When you do this, it ends up taking on political overtones, and done to more of an extreme, it is a critique of the ideology.  So, it goes into being political by basing a game around studies of it.  At least that is what got me interested in the Bioshock games.

I made mention of homosexuality, to show that if you change the subject matter, you are more inclined to get much greater criticisms and degrees of hatred towards the subject in question.  Like I made mention, there were individuals who posted a reply to an article that some Christians working on Infinite expressed reservations, and threatened to quit over the way things went, and the reply by people who knew nothing of the ending, was "f the Christians".  Change the subject studied, and you likely get the same individuals who would cheer them for threatening to quit.

What I do notice is the most vocal critics around Christianity are former Christians.  They leave the religion, but keep their fundamentalistic mentality and ire.  Leaving the religion really didn't make them any better.  Maybe they are more "correct" in their understanding, but still as obnoxious as they had been.

Also, commercial products WILL be altered if the offend the sensibilities of people.  Bioshock Infinite has artistic vision, but its purpose for being produced isn't artistic, it is business.  It is supposed to sell and keep Irrational in business.  Commercial interests will almost always tweak artistic integrity.  Sometimes, though, it can lead to really, really stupid works.  You see how the latest Red Dawn reboot got changed to North Korea, because having China as the enemy would cost sales in China.  This goes beyond art to totally ignoring realities of what likely isn't going to happen.

But she didn't kill him to stop him becoming a Christian leader, she killed him so that he wouldn't steal her childhood and make her into a mass murderer. The ending how it shipped borrows Christian themes with him being "baptised" in the river wiping away his sins in a literal sense in that his sins literally never happened. Nothing in the game says Christianity is bad just that nut jobs that use religion to manipulate and control people to further their own desires are just that, there are plenty of real world examples of that stuff happening using many different religions. Your homosexuality scenario really doesn't work the same way at all, and you can't stop yourself becoming homosexual anyway.

Maybe the original ending was offensive, but the current one is pretty damn tame. If anything your post is probably more offensive to homosexual people than the game is to Christians.

You gotta be kidding me.  By 1910 racism was over?  Segregation was still in effect, lynchings were not uncommon.  Interracial marriage was not legal nationwide until 1967. Segregation ended in the 50s. That's not to mention prejudices against many other groups, largely immigrants.  Bioshock Infinite touches upon that with the Irish, but it's downplayed in comparison to the issues with blacks.

Yes there is more to American history than racism, but racism is severely downplayed in many cases including a lot of our schools.  So it's good to adress it in art.