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BioShock Infinite’s combat teaser reveals the violent action you can expect in Columbia

BioShock Infinite’s combat teaser reveals the violent action you can expect in Columbia

Extreme in-game violence is OK when the blood is coming from a bunch of white supremacists.

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BioShock Infinite is a violent game. The thing is — and this is possibly a spoiler — you’ll use your face-ripping, flesh-melting, eye-pecking weapons and powers to take out white supremacists. That’s game violence put to good use.

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In its latest trailer for the upcoming BioShock Infinite (due out March 26 for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360), Irrational Games is focusing on the first-person shooter’s combat. Like the original BioShock, the hero’s right hand is for his guns, and the left is for supernatural powers. Those magical abilities include flame projectiles and a murder of crows that attack your enemies. Of course, this time around the protagonist also has a dual-purpose melee weapon that players can use to ride an air-based rail system and/or rip the faces off of Columbia’s racist pigs.

Check out the trailer below:

BioShock Infinite is a followup to Irrational’s BioShock, which released in 2007. It stars Booker DeWitt, who is attempting to wipe out his debt by rescuing a girl named Elizabeth from a floating American secessionist city called Columbia in an alternative-history version of 1912. The aerial metropolis is populated by U.S. nationalists who worship the founding fathers and a “prophet” named Father Comstock.

The anticipated title explores racism, patriotism, and extreme conservatism.