Atlantic Express (Level)



"Rapture's fastest way to travel."

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The Atlantic Express is a railed system of transportation for Rapture that appears in BioShock 2. It replaces bathyspheres as the player's main mode of transportation in the game. It is also the name of the second level in the game, which takes place in a workshop depot of the Atlantic Express train system.

After Subject Delta leaves the Adonis Luxury Resort, he travels to the Atlantic Express Depot to meet Brigid Tenenbaum. From there he is directed by Tenenbaum to board the train waiting in the station of the Depot and travel to Ryan Amusements to meet up with Augustus Sinclair.

The Atlantic Express Depot
The Atlantic Express Depot consists of three spacious maintenance workshops. In the security office of the first one, Subject Delta is confronted by Sofia Lamb and attacked by her splicers in a manner similar to Andrew Ryan's confrontation of Jack at the end of the first level of BioShock. In the drafting office of the second depot, he gets an lengthy vision message from Eleanor Lamb, who gives him the Telekinesis plasmid. The third depot leads him to an elevator that ascends to the train station where Brigid Tenenbaum awaits.

New Weaponry

 * Hack Tool

New Plasmids and Tonics

 * Telekinesis

New Enemies

 * Security Camera
 * Security Bot

Audio Diaries

 * 1) Andrew Ryan - The Great Chain Rattles - On a desk in the workshop/office of Workshop 6A.
 * 2) Eleanor Lamb - Mr. Tape Recorder - Through the fan at the end of the Maintenance Runoff Pumping Station tunnel; Telekinesis required to obtain it.
 * 3) Prentice Mill - Just a Fad - On a desk in the upper balcony of Workshop 6B.
 * 4) Mark Meltzer - What Happened to the People? - Next to a mattress in a corner of Workshop 6B.
 * 5) Sofia Lamb - Ryan vs Lamb: Reality - In the storage room of the Railway Cafe.
 * 6) Sofia Lamb - Know the Beast - On a fallen filing cabinet in the Control Room.
 * 7) Gilbert Alexander - Improving on Suchong's Work - In an open drawer of a filing cabinet in the Manager's Office, immediately after taking the elevator upstairs.
 * 8) Brigid Tenenbaum - The Situation - On a bench in the center of the Train Station.

Trivia

 * In early builds of BioShock 2, the Switching Hub served as a holding off point until the player could reach the elevator. In the final build, this area only serves as a mad-dash to the elevator to escape enemies.

Atlantic Express