In these days where the FPS genre is drowning in multiplayer-driven, grey-and-brown, aiming-down-the-sights-of-467-barely-distinct-ACOG-scoped-machine-guns, military-chatter filled mush, it fills me with joy to see an FPS with no multiplayer, a vibrant and captivating world, interesting weapons/powers, and above all, a sense of wonder.

While I doubt it will usher in a bright new era of such games, it at least reassures me that the genre isn't a lost cause, and that an FPS can still be successful on the strength of a marvellous single player adventure alone.

Sign, Bioshock Infinite was the shooter we deserved AND needed right now :D

The reception does make me wish i could play it, or any of its forebears, but my 2012 laptop couldn't even get KOTOR to be entirely stable, and despite appearing onstage for Nintendo at E3 2011, Levine has done nothing to back it up.

Interested, but the combat isn't for me.

I'm also disappointed that they had to make it similar to Call Of Duty to sell.

How does it hold up to the original bioshock? That game is definately top 10 fps for me

Just be happy it didn't come out on the same day as CoD.

How is it similar to Call of Duty? (I've never played CoD so I'm curious)

Columbia is far prettier than Rapture. The atmosphere is less tense but the story is just as good. In Bioshock 1, you arrive after the downfall of the city, in Infinite you arrive in a thriving utopian city and then shit happens.

Sounds awesome - I'll buy it when it goes on sale for $10 on steam

The game as a whole, yeah. The gunplay on the other hand (which some might argue is the most important part of an FPS) is worse than CoD, Battlefield, Halo etc.