The BioShock Infinite<\/em><\/a> gameplay demo video Irrational Games wowed press with behind closed doors at Gamescom has been posted to Xbox.com and Xbox Live for an exclusive 24-hour period, and of course it didn’t take long for the video to find itself on YouTube. Here’s the video, plus five screenshots. [Update]<\/strong> YouTube version replaced with the official video in higher quality.<\/p>\n<\/embed><\/p>\n[nggallery id=1430]<\/br><\/p>\nThe footage is highly impressive, almost too good to be true if you ask me. For a game this early in development (it won’t be ready for release until 2012), it looks way too polished and scripted to be 100% raw gameplay footage. I can’t help but think of the infamous Killzone 2<\/em> unveil trailer from years ago said to be gameplay but was later confirmed to be a target render. Is this something similar, or could it actually be real, live gameplay?<\/p>\nEither way, I already find myself even more excited for Infinite<\/em> than either of the first two BioShocks<\/em> — and the first two BioShocks<\/em> are already two of my favorite games this gen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BioShock Infinite gameplay demo video Irrational Games wowed press with behind closed doors at Gamescom has been posted to Xbox.com and Xbox Live for an exclusive 24-hour period, and of course it didn’t take long for the video to find itself on YouTube. Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184,309,682,2,23,49,74,59,21],"tags":[6149,2305,2193,6081,696,6102,697,6079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/embed><\/p>\n[nggallery id=1430]<\/br><\/p>\nThe footage is highly impressive, almost too good to be true if you ask me. For a game this early in development (it won’t be ready for release until 2012), it looks way too polished and scripted to be 100% raw gameplay footage. I can’t help but think of the infamous Killzone 2<\/em> unveil trailer from years ago said to be gameplay but was later confirmed to be a target render. Is this something similar, or could it actually be real, live gameplay?<\/p>\nEither way, I already find myself even more excited for Infinite<\/em> than either of the first two BioShocks<\/em> — and the first two BioShocks<\/em> are already two of my favorite games this gen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BioShock Infinite gameplay demo video Irrational Games wowed press with behind closed doors at Gamescom has been posted to Xbox.com and Xbox Live for an exclusive 24-hour period, and of course it didn’t take long for the video to find itself on YouTube. Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184,309,682,2,23,49,74,59,21],"tags":[6149,2305,2193,6081,696,6102,697,6079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The footage is highly impressive, almost too good to be true if you ask me. For a game this early in development (it won’t be ready for release until 2012), it looks way too polished and scripted to be 100% raw gameplay footage. I can’t help but think of the infamous Killzone 2<\/em> unveil trailer from years ago said to be gameplay but was later confirmed to be a target render. Is this something similar, or could it actually be real, live gameplay?<\/p>\nEither way, I already find myself even more excited for Infinite<\/em> than either of the first two BioShocks<\/em> — and the first two BioShocks<\/em> are already two of my favorite games this gen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BioShock Infinite gameplay demo video Irrational Games wowed press with behind closed doors at Gamescom has been posted to Xbox.com and Xbox Live for an exclusive 24-hour period, and of course it didn’t take long for the video to find itself on YouTube. Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184,309,682,2,23,49,74,59,21],"tags":[6149,2305,2193,6081,696,6102,697,6079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Either way, I already find myself even more excited for Infinite<\/em> than either of the first two BioShocks<\/em> — and the first two BioShocks<\/em> are already two of my favorite games this gen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BioShock Infinite gameplay demo video Irrational Games wowed press with behind closed doors at Gamescom has been posted to Xbox.com and Xbox Live for an exclusive 24-hour period, and of course it didn’t take long for the video to find itself on YouTube. Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184,309,682,2,23,49,74,59,21],"tags":[6149,2305,2193,6081,696,6102,697,6079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The BioShock Infinite gameplay demo video Irrational Games wowed press with behind closed doors at Gamescom has been posted to Xbox.com and Xbox Live for an exclusive 24-hour period, and of course it didn’t take long for the video to find itself on YouTube. Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184,309,682,2,23,49,74,59,21],"tags":[6149,2305,2193,6081,696,6102,697,6079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vgblogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}