The DLC takes place in an alternate Rapture, with Booker and Elizabeth meeting for the first time, right before all hell breaks loose.
Booker is still a detective in this world, and is approached by Elizabeth to help track down a missing girl called Sally. She’s just one of many missing girls across the city, and I’m guessing it’s something to do with the Little Sister program.
Vigors have been replaced by Plasmids, Elizabeth handles in the same way she did in Infinite, and surprisingly even the Sky Hook has returned. It’s now called the Air Grabber, and sits along side a range of new weapons and tools Booker will use in his quest.
Speaking with IGN, lead level designer Andres Gonzales said, “We rebalanced everything to be more toward resource management and stealth, which changes the way that the encounters play. It’s more player-initiated. You hear enemies off in the distance. Because these are BioShock Infinite systems, tweaked to create the experience of the original BioShock, it’s sort of a hybrid of the two. We had to create the environments to support that gameplay.”
Ken Levine added, “We substantially changed the awareness system from Infinite to this, so it felt more like BioShock 1. It took a fair amount of work. There were things about the AI that just worked so differently. We just bit the bullet and said, ‘if we want it to feel like BioShock 1 we’re going to have to make all these things happen.’ If it didn’t feel like Rapture, it would just feel like a coat of paint. We knew we didn’t want to do that.”
The DLC will cost $14.99, and you can check out the trailer below.