Burial at Sea - Episode 1

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 1 is the first part of the story-driven downloadable content of BioShock Infinite, which was released on November 12, 2013 for $14.99 USD on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows PC and OSX.Irrational Games announces Burial at Sea - Episode 1 Release Date on Twitter It is also included with the BioShock Infinite Season Pass, BioShock Infinite: The Complete Edition and BioShock: The Collection. This campaign puts the player in the perspective of Booker DeWitt in a new story, taking place in the city of Rapture right before its fall.
==Plot==
===Overview===
In the city of Rapture, Booker DeWitt is a well known private investigator, handling his clients' dirty work, when not drinking and gambling. On the eve of 1959, a mysterious woman by the name of Elizabeth asks him to investigate the disappearance of a young girl named Sally. Elizabeth's intentions are vague and she is unwilling to reveal any vital information, saying only that Sally is alive and elite artist Sander Cohen may have information regarding her whereabouts. The duo journey to Cohen's at High Street, but are denied entrance to the club. Needing the masks specifically crafted for the club's exclusive party guests, Booker and Elizabeth search the nearby shops. With Elizabeth distracting the shopkeepers, Booker is able to retrieve the required mask and the two are welcomed into Cohen's party.
===Storyline===
As they enter the Garden of the Muses, Cohen is working on his latest piece of "performance art." However, it falls short of the obsessive artist's high standards, and he disposes of the models. After the "light show," Booker and Elizabeth confront Cohen about Sally. He expresses his suspicion of Elizabeth's intentions but agrees to reveal Sally's location if Booker and Elizabeth dance to inspire his 'muse'. Faced with no other options, the two waltz. It is only moments before Cohen once again finds an error and shocks them unconscious. However, he does keep his end of the bargain: he drags them to a Bathysphere, claiming it will take them to Sally.
When Booker and Elizabeth awake, they notice the Bathysphere is headed away from the city and down to the seafloor where Andrew Ryan had recently sunk Fontaine's Department Store. Via shortwave radio, Cohen reveals that Sally is residing in the Housewares building, and Booker and Elizabeth must get to the tram to reach it. This is found to be done only with the help of an Old Man Winter Plasmid. When the two arrive at the main building, they are immediately attacked by Splicers Ryan imprisoned in the now isolated department store. After defeating numerous enemies, Sally is found lurking in the ventilation system. The two close up all but one vent to trap Sally, and then they increase the vent temperature to force her out. Sally starts screaming due to the heat and flees to that one vent exit.
Afterwards, when Booker attempts to pull her out, he discovers she is now a Little Sister (as he feared). Booker is shocked, and when he aggressively tries pulling her out again, she calls for her Bouncer Big Daddy, who then attacks Booker. Booker and Elizabeth engage the Big Daddy and manage to defeat him, allowing Booker to attempt to reason with Sally, but to no avail. Booker, struggling to recover her, recalls his previous memories that were "hazy" to him before. In a flashback, Booker is revealed to actually have been a regretful Zachary Hale Comstock, who worked with Robert and Rosalind Lutece to take Booker's daughter, Anna, but (in a universe alternate to that of the Infinite story) ended up killing the child by accidentally having her head cut off instead of her pinkie finger when the portal closed in his fight to take her. Booker (Comstock) comes to, remembering he had the Lutece twins move him to Rapture through their Tear device so he could forget and get away from his troubles. The Lutece twins appear and criticize Comstock, saying he could never accept the consequences of his actions. As a side effect of going to Rapture through the device, he lost his memories of being Comstock and failing to steal Anna and resumed his life of being a Private Investigator as Booker Dewitt. This Comstock has no knowledge of the Infinite Universe. He could not know her origin or suddenly realize it. He is a different Comstock entirely.Ken Levine discusses BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 1's ending on Eurogamer Elizabeth, infuriated by Comstock's attempt at kidnapping her when she wasn't his true child, doesn't accept Comstock's apology and instead tells him he will be sorry. The player can hear the Big Daddy getting up, having survived the earlier ordeal. It then impales Comstock with its drill from behind. In his last moments, Comstock looks over at Elizabeth who glares at him mercilessly, covered in his blood. The screen cuts to black, thus concluding Episode 1 and setting up the story for Episode 2.
===Main Characters===
*Booker DeWitt/Zachary Hale Comstock
*Elizabeth
*Sally
===Locations===
*Market Street
*High Street
*Fontaine's Department Store
*Housewares
==Gameplay==
===Overview===
This new campaign features the city of Rapture rebuilt from scratch with game mechanics and the Unreal Engine 3 used for BioShock Infinite. It includes new weapons, new Plasmids (similar to Vigors), new Gears, and Tears. The first half of this first episode focuses mostly on the exploration of the business streets of Rapture and its story while the second half focuses on combat mechanics close to that of the first BioShock game, with scarce resources and tighter spaces as opposed to the larger, open areas of the main game.Burial at Sea Recreating Rapture Video Interview on IGN
In comparison to BioShock Infinite, Burial at Sea - Episode 1 also features stealth execution to instantly kill (or in two strikes depending on the difficulty) an unaware enemy at full health. Also similar to the original game, locations feature more optionally explorable areas, containing loot, ammunition and even new weapons and plasmids. Some new puzzle mechanics requiring Plasmids are also introduced, such as casting Shock Jockey on short-circuited switches to unlock doors or creating ice bridges using Old Man Winter to enter new areas.
This downloadable content utilizes a weapon wheel similar to the one used for Plasmids/Vigors, allowing the player to carry all weapons instead of replacing them.
===Enemies===
*Early Splicers
**Thuggish Splicer
**Leadhead Splicer
*Support
**Turret
*Heavy Hitters
**Frosty Splicer
**Bouncer
===Weapons===
*Air Grabber
*Carbine
*Hand Cannon
*Tommy Gun
*Radar Range
*Shotgun
===Plasmids===
*Bucking Bronco
*Devil's Kiss
*Old Man Winter
*Possession
*Shock Jockey
===Gear===
*Evil Eye
*Surprise Element
*Ticket Puncher
*Better Mousetrap
*Magic Bullet
*Roar to Life
*Death Benefit
*Filthy Leech
*Quick-Handed
*High and Mighty
===Items===
==Videos==
==Gallery==
===Concept and Promotional Art===
Burial at Sea - Episode 1 Banner Early Design.jpg|An early design for the banner, featuring Booker holding a different gun.
Main street concept art.jpg|Concept art for Market Street.
Atlasmoodpiece.jpg|Concept art for pre-fall Rapture.
Pneumo lines concept art.jpg|Concept art for the Pneumo Lines.
Elizabeth burial at sea concept art.jpg|Different concepts for the appearance of Elizabeth.
Air grabber concept art.jpg|Concept art for the Air Grabber.
Preefallrapture.jpg|Concept art for pre-fall Rapture.
ConceptBuildingBaS.jpg|Concept for the buildings of Rapture.
RaptureSavingsBank.jpg|Concept for businesses and buildings.
StoresInBaS.jpg|Concept art for stores, likely to be used for Market and High Street.
BaSpreConceptSS.jpg|Concept for the streets of Rapture.
Burial at Sea-Episode 1 Conclusion Storyboard.jpg|Storyboard for the Episode's conclusion.
ElizabethNewRaptureOutfit-480x329.jpg|Elizabeth's new outfit for the DLC.
BSIDLC-BurialAtSeaEp1 Banner.jpg|Art banner from the official website.
BSIDLC-BaSE1-BurialAtSeaEpisode1.jpg|Elizabeth is waiting for Booker while contemplating the city.
ZATK3Bb.jpg|Elizabeth in the DLC's trailer along with Booker using Devil's Kiss.
Little Sisters Market Street Prelaunch.jpg|An early version of Market Street.
20131004120128-lestempsperdu_web.jpg|Elizabeth near an early version of Le Temps Perdu.
===In-Game Images===
Marketwhale.png|The Prime of Rapture.
20131004120143-lizhallway_web.jpg|Elizabeth at a hallway.
Les Temps Perdu Waiter.png|The Houdini waiter.
Burial at sea Cohen.jpg|Sander Cohen invites you to dance.
BaSE1 High Street Cohen's Booker DeWitt & Elizabeth Electrocuted.jpg|Elizabeth and Booker getting shocked.
7mpk.png|Nearing the department store prison.
BioShockInfinite 2015-10-25 15-03-37-697.png|Insanity takes many forms.
BaSLady1.png|A prisoner who didn't make it.
AirGrabberExecute2.png|The Air Grabber in action.
Burial at Sea Splicer Firing Tommy Gun.jpg|A Splicer firing a Tommy Gun.
Splicerhorde.jpg|Splicer assault!
BaSE1 FDS Jack Frost's Village Elizabeth & Frosty Splicer.jpg|Elizabeth and the Frosty Splicer.
BaS1 CircusValues VendingM.png|The familiar Circus of Values.
Need to Know Theater.png|A Need to Know Theater.
BioShockInfinite 2015-10-25 15-36-44-911.png|Behold the turncoats.
BaSE1 Housewares Toys Bouncer Attacking Booker With Drill.jpg|The Big Daddy is coming for you.
80ZHC.png|Comstock revealed.
BaSE1 Housewares Toys Robert & Rosalind Lutece.jpg|The Luteces appear in Rapture.
Drilled.jpg|A fatal end.
==Behind the Scenes==
*The inspiration for the cover art comes from the French poster of the 1942 film noir, This Gun for Hire.
*The scene where Comstock is impaled by a Bouncer from behind is a homage to the Splicer being killed in a similar way in the first trailer of BioShock.Ken Levine on Twitter
*Some of the heads used for the Splicer models were updated models of the Waders Splicer from the original BioShock.
*All weapons in Rapture are identical to those in Columbia, with the exception of the Carbine (which functions more like the Burstgun), Tommy Gun, and Radar Range.
*Even though Burial at Sea - Episode 1 uses BioShock Infinite's engine, some content from the previous games in the series are also reused, such as various posters, Rapture's Public Address Announcements, sound effects, and even models such as television sets or jukeboxes.
*Technical artist Spencer Luebbert designed a new shader network to get the clean and glamorous reflective surfaces for the architecture of Rapture.Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Irrational Games talk about rebuilding Rapture on YouTube
==References==
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Category:Burial at Sea - Episode 1 DLC