Clockwork Revolution's similarity to BioShock Infinite is "unintentional"

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The trailer for the recently-revealed Clockwork Revolution has a lot of similarities to BioShock Infinite, but Microsoft says it's "unintentional." 

On June 11, Microsoft revealed Clockwork Revolution on behalf of Wasteland 3 developer inXile during the Xbox Games Showcase 2023. The Steampunk-influenced FPS looks really interesting, especially to Twitter user @Butmac, who claims they produced the BioShock Infinite trailer "a little over 10 years ago." 

According to @Butmac, there's a lot of comparisons to be made between the two games' trailers. As you can see from the tweets below, Butmac does seem to have a point. There's several instances in the Clockwork Revolution trailer that are reminiscent of BioShock Infinite's - everything from locations in the game to characters, and even particular shots. 

This doesn't necessarily mean that developer inXile copied BioShock developer 2K Games though. In fact, in a statement to IGN, Microsoft told the publication that: "Any similarities are unintentional," and that "players will be able to fully customize their own main character in the game." We'll have to wait and see just how similar Clockwork Revolution plays when it releases sometime in 2024. 

If you missed all the excitement yesterday, here are some of the biggest announcements we got during the Xbox showcase. We'd be surprised if you hadn't heard about Star Wars Outlaws by now, the Ubisoft Star Wars game looks extremely promising and is set to also appear at today's Ubisoft Forward. We also got our first proper look at the new Fable game by Forza developer Playground Games as well as Payday 3 and Like a Dragon 8: Infinite Wealth. 

Find out what else we've got to look forward to soon with our upcoming Xbox Series X games list. 

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After studying Film Studies and Creative Writing at university, I was lucky enough to land a job as an intern at Player Two PR where I helped to release a number of indie titles. I then got even luckier when I became a Trainee News Writer at 12DOVE before being promoted to a fully-fledged News Writer after a year and a half of training.  My expertise lies in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, cozy indies, and The Last of Us, but especially in the Kingdom Hearts series. I'm also known to write about the odd Korean drama for the Entertainment team every now and then.  

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