Bioshock Infinite's Motorised Patriot is evil robot George Washington with a gatling gun

I didn't think I'd find myself writing that headline when I woke up this morning. There are big ideas behind the Bioshock games. The wars for Rapture and Colombia are battles between ideologies fought with bullets, each set in a fascinating, twisted dystopia. Never mind all that, though. No matter how smart your game is, there's always room for evil robot George Washington with a gatling gun.

Update: There's a video! See the motorised patriot in action below.

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Killing a motorised patriot will drop his massive weapon, called a Pepper Mill, worthy loot for a dangerous foe. "These are enemies that are used to not just be more powerful, but to augment the abilities of the more traditional BioShock enemies," Levine told G4TV. "You're going to come across them in certain areas of the game, and they're going to provide a really unique challenge."

"Unique challenge" is right. I don't recall fighting an evil robot George Washington with a gatling gun before, but games are mad, so it may have slipped my mind. Here's some concept art of the Pepper Mill and, below that, some concept art of the motorised Patriot, which would make a great Doctor Who villain.

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.