BioShock Infinite: Heavy Hitters bosses

George Washington... First president of the USA, national American hero and now evil killer robot in BioShock Infinite. Irrational Games has today lifted the lid on the 'Motorized Patriot', a Gatling gun-toting mechanised George Washington who you'll encounter in BioShock Infinite's floating cloud city of Columbia.

Revealed to be one of BioShock Infinite's so-called 'Heavy Hitters', the Motorized Patriot is one of many taxing bad guys who'll stalk the streets of Columbia, providing a stiff challenge for the game's hero, Pinkerton agent, Booker DeWitt.

Speaking to Kotaku, BioShock Infinite Director, Ken Levine revealed a little bit about the Motorized Patriot's background. "His job is to sell people on the vision of Columbia. The Founders have this extremely grandiose vision of what their mission is, and the Motorized Patriot's job is to go around and sell that vision—at first."

Naturally, everything goes to hell in handbasket, big time Rapture-style when the Patriots are weaponised with miniguns. "Also, the Vox Populi can hack them," explained Levine. "Later on, you'll come across Motorized Patriots who are sort of dressed up in Vox Populi colors, with different heads put on, representing one of their heroes. And they're working for the Vox Populi, spouting their propaganda."

As you may know, the Vox Populi are one of Columbia's antagonistic factions, a ruthless resistance group fighting against the Founders. Levine was also quick to distance the Heavy Hitter from BioShock's Big Daddies. "There's gonna be a lot of interesting things in the game that I think remind people a lot of BioShock, but we're not really trying to sort of match anything nose for nose," he said.

BioShock Infinite is coming on October 16th, 2012 in North America and October 19th, 2012 in Europe.