Bioshock Infinite

[Typhoid]

This just seems cheap and uninspired.

I think you're looking too far into it.

I mean, if you remove the whole "How USA is today" thing from it, it makes for a pretty good horror scenario.

A floating city [that also happens to be a floating warship disguised as a city] broken off from the rest of the world because it's too politically extreme, now the citizens of that city are completely weary of outsiders because of previous campaigns [and you happen to be an outsider in the game] and are at a constant civil war with eachother over power, corruption, and ideology.

And I mean, hell - the idea of the game is still relatively similar. A failed utopia that is not on solid land is now over-run with corruption, super powers, freaks, and giant scary monsters.