BioShock Infinite Game Review

The 13 Biggest nitpicks of BioShock Infinite

Our tiniest gripes with BioShock's grand sequel

The air up there

Cloud heights range anywhere from 500 ft to 30,000 ft. Judging by the duration of Booker's rocket ascent, we're guessing his altitude upon landing on Columbia's steps was somewhere in the middle. We'll say 15,000 ft, to be safe. As anyone who's taken a rocket to extreme altitudes such as this can attest, one does not simply step out from a pressurized cabin and breath in the cool, elevated air. In fact, without any form of acclimatization, one usually loses their breakfast and/or ability to function real quick.

We won't even get in to the science of living high above the clouds on buildings that bob up and down at unsettling speeds. That's a topic reserved for people more scientifically minded than us. Suffice to say, humans can live in some pretty harsh altitudes and conditions, but it usually takes time to get used to such climates. One theory is that Booker's initial baptism into Columbia was a scientific process meant to adjust his lungs to Columbia's air. But what about his initial visit to the Welcome Center? Booker should have been painting those pretty walls with his lunch and desperately scrounging for an antacid.