So, I finished Bioshock Infinite this week. That’s a video game if you didn’t know. This is Lloyd if you didn’t know.
It was a good game. It was fairly short as far as video games go and altogether well done. I purchased it a few months ago when it was on sale for $9.99 and my students who have played it have been pestering me to play it so that we could talk about it.
The game is set in 1912 and the music for it is just great. There are phonographs that you walk by that play songs from the turn of the century as you walk by them, loud speakers in public squares that have period music playing. Even a barbershop quartet tucked away in a little corner.
But as you get further into the game, some of the music changes. Here are a few samples:
It actually works really well with the story line of the game too. Here’s the final song at the end of the game: