BioShock Tilt-Shift Gives Rapture A Beautiful New Angle
A talented BioShock fan has captured Rapture at an isometric angle, giving fans an amazing new perspective of the iconic underwater metropolis. The series' first two installments let players explore the objectivist utopia after it has been reduced to a bloody, leaky and dystopian disaster. Last year a fan made a pixel demake of Columbia from BioShock Infinite, and the tilt-shift view of Rapture manages to capture the series' other fantasy city.
As portrayed in BioShock and BioShock 2, Rapture is a once-great underwater city that has been ravaged by a bloody civil war. Originally intended as a place for the world's greatest scientists and artists to live without persecution, political upheaval and a reliance on gene-splicing led to a violent revolt. BioShock Infinite leaves Rapture behind and brings players to Columbia, a flying city based on American exceptionalism, but its Burial at Sea expansion returns to Rapture prior to its civil war. Last year YouTuber Flurdeh created an isometric tilt-shift view of Zelda: BOTW, but the creator's alternate view of Rapture is perhaps even more amazing.
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Recently posted to YouTube by Flurdeh, the tilt-shift view of BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea gives fans a beautiful look at Rapture before its fall. The game'sportrayal of Rapture in its prime is extremely glamorous, with performance art and dazzling technological innovations gracing very inch of the city's richer areas. Meanwhile, the sunken region of Fontaine's Department Store recalls the dark and dilapidated environments found in the first two games. The new isometric angle manages to illustrate both the beauty and horror of Rapture and its
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