Bioshock Infinite was a smash success for Irrational Games when it was released in March, and the game is a contender for game of the year along with The Last of Us and Grand Theft Auto 5. However, some gamers have complained that the title's DLC content has been slow to come since the game's March release. In news that should sate those concerns: Irrational Games has announced the three parts of the game's season pass content to IGN, and the first part of the DLC will be out Tuesday.
Clash in the Clouds is the first DLC pack for the game, and is out Tuesday on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Steam for $5 for those without the season pass. Clash in the Clouds takes players back to Columbia, adding four new challenge maps to the game, each with special Blue Ribbon Challenge objective for completion. Each map has players take on 15 waves of enemies, and will come with leaderboards to keep track of the top scores. The DLC also comes with Columbia Archaelogical Society, an in-game museum that players can explore to see behind-the-scenes content for Bioshock Infinite.
The rest of the game's DLC will be a two part episodic package called Buried at Sea, and will bring players back to the underwater city of Rapture the night before the city falls. The first episode will have players take the role of Booker, who will ingest Plasmids instead of Vigors. The second episode will allow players to play as Elizabeth for the first time, and will have a unique feel and playstyle different from what players are use to playing as Booker. Both parts of Buried at Sea will cost $14.99 individually. Bioshock creator Ken Levine explained the new DLC to IGN:
"It's really a story of Booker and Elizabeth again, but set against the backdrop of pre-fall Rapture, and to have an extended period in pre-fall Rapture without combat, where you're just living in the space, like you got to sort of live in Columbia at the beginning of the game. Which nobody has ever been able to do before, with those systems and that technology. My favorite BioShock quest is actually in that part, with no combat. He meets an old friend from BioShock 1. Not a very nice friend, but a friend. And in the second half, it takes place in a department store, a Fontaine department store that's been shuttered and sunk to the bottom of the ocean by Ryan after he takes over. All of Fontaine's cronies are put into that department store, so that place has gone to hell. It's very traditional BioShock 1. They're all spliced up down there. They're all crazy. You get this mix of pristine Rapture and a very traditional Rapture experience, in a pretty organic story."
Look for more Bioshock Infinite DLC news as Irrational gets ready to release Buried at Sea and players begin Clash in the Clouds.