BioShock Infinite

book User's Guides to Popular Culture How to Play Video Games

by Mark J. P. Wolf

Abstract: World-building and environmental storytelling are critically important design strategies for creating product differentiation in a gaming marketplace that is saturated with first-person shooters. In granting players the freedom to explore an immersive and richly textured America that never was, Mark J. P. Wolf argues that BioShock Infinite invites players to consider how this alternative, fictional world reveals certain truths about our own reality.

This essay may be found on page 75 of the printed volume.