Return to rapture.

• Author: Suderman, Peter
• Position: Briefly Noted - Bioshock 2 - Brief article

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What happens when you cross Ayn Rand with Halo? Try Bioshock, a 2007 video game that allowed players to explore the art-deco underwater city of Rapture while blasting away at biomodified drug addicts. That game's antagonist was Andrew Ryan, a declamatory Randian cult figure who built the city on an individualistic ideal.

Bioshock 2, the newly released sequel, returns players to the city, but this time it's under the control of Sofia Lamb, a socialist who has made genetic experimentation the basis for a violent religion. That premise...