Has anyone read the book? I've started playing BioShock and that's the first thing I thought of. Then the guy helping you is named Atlas, and that pretty much confirmed it for me...heh.
Ken Levine's said in all of his interviews that the works of Ayn Rand are the key focus of the BioShock story. Bioshock takes place in a world where objectivism was tried, and failed, partly due to issues in the philosophy, and partly because it wasn't followed closely enough. Atlas, Fontaine, Andrew Ryan, etc. all have names based on Rand or her works. For the record, Ken Levine, who wrote the story, has also mentioned that he has a 'useless Liberal Arts degree', and therefor most likely covered Rand and her philosophy in university.
Good ol' Yahtzee Croshaw agrees "The bad guy might as well just be Showdown in a waist coat with a copy of Atlas Shrugged." http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1394-Zero-Punctuation-BioShock I do so love his reviews... ~Krelian
Well I remember seeing this picture in the beginning: From there you could read the phrases on the wall and notice the other things while you were taking the journey down. By that point the book entered my mind, then yuo met Altas on the radio. I'm guessing anyone who has read the book will see the similarities in the first 3-minutes of gameplay.
