{"id":31065,"date":"2012-01-19T15:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31065"},"modified":"2012-01-19T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T13:52:57","slug":"bioshock-infinites-hardcore-1999-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31065-bioshock-infinites-hardcore-1999-mode","title":{"rendered":"BioShock Infinite&#8217;s hardcore &#8220;1999 Mode&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who found BioShock to be lacking in the challenge department, never fear, Irrational Games has got you covered: introducing 1999 Mode for BioShock Infinite.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re confused, the premise is simple &#8211; BioShock creator, <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21043-Ken-Levine\">Ken Levine<\/a> is an old-school gamer, and he wants those of you who are brave enough, to experience BioShock Infinite in that old-school way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to give our oldest and most committed fans an option to go back to our roots,&#8221; said Mister Levine.<\/p>\n<p>1999 Mode will challenge gamers to actually consider everything they do in the game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgrades will be permanent;<\/li>\n<li>Respawning will be restricted;<\/li>\n<li>Weapon, power and health management will be more demanding;<\/li>\n<li>The words &#8220;Game Over&#8221; will likely smack you in your face because modern gaming has made you weak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember games being hardcore in 1999 &#8211; I was too busy avoiding puberty &#8211; but the year saw some awesome game releases, so if BioShock Infinite is trying to reach back to that gameplay era, this should be awesome.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kkl6HrlP1zw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party like it&#8217;s 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":29479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[283,2059,21,281],"class_list":["post-31065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-bioshock-infinite","tag-hardcore-mode","tag-headline","tag-ken-levine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31066,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065\/revisions\/31066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}