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Article title: 'BioShock Infinite' makes great art from America's racist past and political present

Article title: How BioShock Infinite Became One of the Most Controversial Games Ever

Article title: What Bioshock Infinite Gets Right About Racism

Article title: The Politics of 'BioShock Infinite' Are All the Worse When Revisited in a Heated Election Year

A selection of 10 interesting critical responses to the game

Speculative fiction - look back on lesson

How does the interactive game BioShock use its storyline and gameplay to raise big issues within society?

Some argue that Bioshock doesn’t touch on racial matters enough for it to be a big theme within the game.

‘new media remediates old media' p3 Parikka, JP. (2012) What Is Media Archaeology. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Cognitive dissonance is a feeling of discomfort that a person can experience when they hold two contradicting beliefs.

You have no choices. Whatever choices the player thinks they have is an illusion. Choices will have a small knock on affect later in the game but this seems to be a linear narrative. Dependant on some of your choices, where you go and how quickly you progress through the game the player can miss scenes where Elizabeth is being very interactive with the environment or you miss a piece of dialogue which further explains part of the story. The developers were aware that some players would see it but some would miss it and they believe that is part of the experience.