It is easy to forget, but Bioshock 2 featured a surprisingly competent multiplayer mode, Bioshock 2: Fall of Rapture . Set during the New Year's Eve civil war that destroyed the city, players took on the role of citizens fighting for survival. It was a standard class-based shooter, but it was dripping with lore. You could play as a future Big Daddy, use Plasmids against other humans, and witness the city’s collapse firsthand. While the servers are largely quiet today, the inclusion of the mode showed a willingness to expand the universe rather than simply repeat it.
Set eight years after the events of the first game, BioShock 2 shifts the narrative focus from the fall of an objectivist utopia to the rise of a collectivist cult. Bioshock 2