![]() Songbird begins pursuing Booker and Elizabeth the moment she escapes from her room, destroying a huge portion of her tower in the process. The Songbird as the guardian of Columbia. Songbird's only weapons are the metal talons mounted on its feet and knuckles, but its immense size, strength, and speed allow it to effortlessly obliterate people, vehicles, and even structures. Green eyes indicate friendliness towards a person or object of focus, namely Elizabeth orange indicates awareness but indifference to Songbird's surroundings and red represents heavy hostility, chiefly towards Booker. Songbird's mechanical features are similar to that of the Big Daddy, with color-changing eyes to indicate its mood. This created a successful pairbond between the creature and Elizabeth, and it would protect her fiercely - On the other hand, Suchong erroneously believed that DNA, in particular, a hair sample, was the cause of the pairbond, and attempted multiple times to figure out how to replicate the Songbird's pairbond with his own Big Daddies. In the end, the bond between Songbird and Elizabeth was established by a freak accident - Songbird escaped the laboratory and accidentally crashed into Elizabeth's tower, forcing Elizabeth to repair its breather. Attempts to psychologically indoctrinate the prototype were not successful, so Fink left it abandoned in his old laboratory. In the end, a crude prototype was assembled, connected to a breather. At first, multiple experiments were done with animals, such as gorillas and dogs, to create a successful psychological pairbond with Elizabeth. Much like the Big Daddy, the Songbird is a combination between a machine and a human. Yi Suchong of Rapture via Tears, experiments were made to create the beast. In actuality, Fink managed to gain the design's blueprints from the Big Daddy. The Songbird was created by Fink Manufacturing and like most of Jeremiah Fink's technology, it was based on designs discovered through a Tear. 6.1 Concept, Prelaunch, and Promotional Images.She wasn’t mute, for instance.ĭon’t downplay yourself Levine – Big Daddy may be mute, but I still have bittersweet memories of a little girl desperately urging that undersea titan to murder me.ĭo you remember Big Daddy and Little Sister interacting with Rapture’s environment in ways above your standard apathetic AI? Let us know in the comments. But of course the content bar for her was infinitely higher. All those things were the very rough training grounds for Elizabeth in the sense that she had to be present and observable and not breakable. You don’t know if the player is going to get in the way. Sometimes they interact with objects off a script but you don’t know where it’s going to happen and you don’t know when it’s going to happen. Levine then went into further depth, while elaborating on how these AI traits ended up benefiting, and working their way into Elizabeth: Because most of the time when you see an AI either they’re doing nothing or they’re just coming at you guns blazing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Big Daddy and the Little Sister were a very very rough prototype of that AI who is just around you in the world that you can observe, who aren’t scripted. Ken Levine explains how the disturbing duo serve as the groundwork to Elizabeth: It’s easy to miss the connection at face value, but Levine attributed the studio’s work on Big Daddy, and Little Sister as a prototype to BioShock Infinite‘s (far easier on the eyes) Elizabeth. ![]()
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