Today we announce BioShock Infinite.

That’s right, this is a BioShock game.

It’s a sequel.

But it’s also not a sequel.

- Ken Levine, Creative Director of Irrational Games

BioShock Infinite is set in 1912, prior to the events of the first two BioShock games, though it has little to do with the plot of the previous games. The primary setting
is a city suspended in the air by giant blimps and balloons, called "Columbia". Unlike the secret development of the underwater city of Rapture, Columbia was proudly boasted
by the American government when launched in 1900, centralized on the idea of American exceptionalism. Like Rapture, Columbia is considered a failed utopia, with signs present
suggesting a theocratic government taking control at some point, and similar racial-purification concepts such as nazism.

The main character is Booker DeWitt, a former, disgraced agent of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. He is hired by individuals, aware of Columbia's location, to invade the
air-city and rescue Elizabeth, a woman that was abducted as a girl and has been in the air-city since. Though he finds Elizabeth easily enough, DeWitt quickly discovers that Elizabeth
is central to the city's conflict, forcing DeWitt and Elizabeth to trust each other in order to escape.