The Liz Squad took that as a sign their work was on the right track. So much so, in fact, that when later videos showed Liz in different clothing or with a different hairstyle, the outcry over the changes was swift and harsh. Fans and players clamored for more and seemed to form a bond with the wayward young girl. When Elizabeth was again revealed to the world in videos displaying her personality and emotional range, she was an instant hit. “What made the Big Daddy work was the emotional impact it had on the player. He was referencing characters from “BioShock” who are painted as both deadly monsters and loving companions to the “Little Sisters” they protect. “She’s the extension of what we were trying to do with the Big Daddy, which is more to me about an emotional resonance than a combat experience,” Levine said. He postponed the game from its original release date of March 2012 several times, specifically because Elizabeth wasn’t right. Levine said that demo of the game showed what Elizabeth could do from a narrative standpoint, but that he still wasn’t comfortable with how she behaved.
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But gamers who already loved the expansive, altered-reality world of the series first met her in 2011 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the world’s largest video-game gathering. The realistic look and feel of Elizabeth didn’t fully come together until within the last year. If she doesn’t work, everything else we’ve been shooing for is meaningless.” “It was making her real because she is the game. “The biggest challenge of this entire game wasn’t the skylines and it wasn’t the open world,” said writer Drew Holmes. In video-game terms, that meant creating someone the player would connect with emotionally but who would also be useful to them during gameplay. “We wanted a character that would be absolutely central to the narrative. “We kept coming back to having a partner in the experience and as we looked out onto the field of partners that existed (in other games), the air gets pretty thin,” Levine said. The game portrays their journey together from a futuristic city in the sky into the post-Victorian world of 1912.īuilding off the successes of “BioShock” and “BioShock 2,” creative director Ken Levine wanted to further ramp up the player’s emotional involvement in the game. But she’s also been locked away from the rest of that world since birth.Īs Booker DeWitt, a former Pinkerton agent, the player must rescue, or kidnap, Elizabeth away from her predicament.
In the game’s story line, the teen Elizabeth has the ability to change the world around her. “If Liz Squad, or Elizabeth herself, needed something from the development team, then she got what she needed.” “Once the creation of Liz Squad became official, we had what was called The Liz Hammer,” Jeffries said. So devoted was Irrational to creating a companion character like none other that they built an entire team of developers from different areas of the company with the sole purpose of making Elizabeth “real.” “Almost everyone in the office was saying out loud, ‘We should just cut her.’ How on Earth do you begin to deal with this (type of) character who nobody has had any experience with?” There was a lot of internal opposition to her,” said Amanda Jeffrey, a designer with Irrational Games, the publisher behind the wildly inventive “Bioshock” franchise. “When I first started working on her, she was horribly broken. Her creators were so concerned about getting her just right that she almost never happened. When the highly anticipated “BioShock: Infinite” hits stores on Tuesday, a naive 19-year-old with special powers and book smarts – but little true grasp of the complexities of the world around her – will meet a gaming public that’s been awaiting her debut for years.Įlizabeth may be the most talked-about video game character who’s not controlled by the player since “Portal’s” wry, sarcastic killing machine, GlaDOS.
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