Irrational has today announced the first DLC packs for BioShock Infinite. The first DLC, Clash in the Clouds, will be available today but the big news is that the second DLC, Burial at Sea, is the first of a two-parter and sees players return to the underwater city of Rapture – the setting of BioShock 1 and 2.
Clash in the Clouds is a wave based arena mode that makes the most of Columbia and Infinite's combat system. The pack will be available on Steam at 12:00 EST/17:00 BST today and will go live on the Xbox Marketplace and PlayStation Store during the regular weekly updates. The expansion will cost $5.
Burial at Sea Episode One will be released later this year with Episode Two coming sometime later. Burial at Sea is set on New Year's Eve, 1958. This is date commonly seen as the beginning of the end of Andrew Ryan's experiment. The first section will be played as Booker but interestingly the second sees players take on the role of Elizabeth.
Speaking to Eurogamer Levine said "We have a bit of a different approach to some people to DLC. When we started this, we really tried to listen to the fans, and to us the fans were clearly saying to us, look, we want the A team on the DLC, we want the same team who did the actual game.
"We don't want it to be stuff that's on the disc, we don't want it to be stuff that some marketing guy came in and said 'leave that aside'."
Explaining Irrational's work process Levine said "So basically the day we finished – literally, pretty much the day we finished Infinite, we went to work on the DLC, starting pretty much from scratch on the game content."
While Clash in the Cloud is "a sort of compromise between timeliness and scale" Burial at Sea is "a bit of a love letter to the fans."
Levine went on to describe the Burial at Sea DLC saying "So it's a two-part experience… The second part has a slight twist to it. You play Booker obviously in the first one, but we were listening to the fans and we know how they feel about Elizabeth, and we decided we wanted to shift things around a little for the third one, so the player character in the third DLC, you get to play Elizabeth, and the gameplay is quite different as her.
"She's not the tank that Booker is, and we'll see how all the story's coming together."
You can see the trailers for the DLCs below, courtesy of Eurogamer.
