Bioshock Infinite DLC News: Irrational Games Previews Buried at Sea DLC Starring Elizabeth (Video)

Bioshock Infinite's developer Irrational Games recently released their entire DLC plans for the game, and the highlight was the announcement of the Buried at Sea two part DLC that will put players in the role of Elizabeth. She arrives at the setting of the first two games of the series, the underwater city of Rapture, and will explore the city in the DLC. Amanda Jeffrey, a level designer for Irrational Games, spoke to IGN about the DLC, and revealed that the developer has gone to great length to make Elisabeth play differently than main protagonist Booker:

"With the player getting the opportunity to see how Liz is experiencing the world through first person, we have to be ever so careful to not betray what the player has already experienced of Liz in Infinite and what they're going to experience of Liz in the first part of the DLC...That's always foremost in our mind, because Liz is such a different character to Booker, and if we were to just put Booker in a dress, then that would be the most awful betrayal of what we're doing for Liz, and players would just feel like it was a cheap way out, and that's not something that we want to do. So we don't have all of the answers yet for it, but we are very, very, very much aware of all of the dangers that we need to try and avoid."

While Booker was more capable in traditional combat roles, such as getting into gunfights and being more physical, Elizabeth will have a much more subdued method of combat that relies less on brute strength and using the opponent's weakness and the environment to her advantage. This may even require players to avoid combat altogether in some areas of the game:

"Elizabeth has to take things more from the side view. She needs to be kind of thinking in a roundabout way of how to deal with her enemies. And, sometimes, that might mean completely bypassing the enemy entirely, because she doesn't need to. It may mean, in another situation, using the enemy's strength against them. There's all of these different kinds of ways of being more thoughtful, and - I hesitate to say it - almost more feminine way of approaching a problem, where there's all of these people and, to be very brutally honest about it, they have the advantage in strength. But Elizabeth has the advantage in smarts. So, how that pans out and how that plays in the environment, I'm awfully excited to do. It'll be fantastic."

This strategy makes more sense of Elizabeth, after all it is hard to imagine her going toe-to-toe against a Big Daddy in the way that Booker could have. Look out for more Bioshock Infinite DLC news, including when to expect Buried at Sea to be released, right here.