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Levine Likens BioShock Infinite Factions to Occupy Wall Street
Article by James Cottee - Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:58pm - 3 Comments

Complex.com has uploaded a new video interview with BioShock Infinite mastermind Ken Levine, in which the veteran video game developer talks about the pop-culture and historical influences that inspired the dystopian flying city of Columbia.

Recorded at last weekend's New York Comic Con, the interview reveals how the works of comic pioneer Jack Kirby inspired the look of the original BioShock, and how David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick inspired Infinite. What's more, Levine touches on the current political divide in the United States, and how the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street protesters mirror the factions in his game, in a case of life imitating art:


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