The beginning of the level.
A gift in the Plasmid Treatments wing.
- “Rapture's finest spa and getaway.”
- ― Advertisement
The Adonis Luxury Resort is the first level of BioShock 2. It is a Greek-themed, high-class resort area of Rapture where the upper-class citizens went to relax, receive Plasmid treatments, and ADAM-based rejuvenation therapy. This is where Subject Delta begins his journey through Rapture to find Eleanor Lamb, his former Little Sister, and has his first encounter with a Big Sister. Like the rest of Rapture, it has fallen into a state of disrepair and ruin. There is an abundance of underwater vegetation growing in the area, indicating it was flooded at one time.
History
A popular spa for the wealthy citizens of Rapture, Adonis Luxury Resort was a place where clients could take a break from work and unwind. Like the rest of the city, the place deteriorated with the ruined economy and lack of safety in the City. In the chaos after the Civil War, things got even worse and many of the resort's facilities became inaccessible.
The Vita-Chamber
This room contains a Vita-Chamber, used to revive Subject Delta. The Little Sister that revived him can be seen staring at him from a vent up a flight of stairs.
The Adonis Baths
The Adonis Baths seen from the main entrance.
A area with a very large and deep swimming pool, with pool chairs, locker rooms, and the generator for the Resort. The area also offered mud baths and a tanning salon, but initially the path towards these areas is blocked. The facility was once under the supervision of "Big Kate" O'Malley, in charge of the management and safety guidelines for the workers in the Resort.
Plasmids Therapy
Clients were treated to Plasmid-based rejuvenation therapies. An EVE dispenser behind the counter allowed the staff to recharge their powers during work.
Docking Platform
This Docking Platform is used for guests to access the resort. It is also Mark Meltzer's arrival point in Rapture, and marks the beginning of his journey through the city. Unfortunately, the bathysphere was destroyed some time after Meltzer's arrival.
Grand Foyer
Statuary in the foyer.
The Grand Foyer is the main lobby of the Adonis Luxury Resort. Connected to the Rapture Metro Station, the foyer was where guests checked in to the resort. It held a lounge area and bar for the guests. A grand staircase and elevators took visitors up to the guest rooms. The foyer is connected to Demeter's Banquet Hall, which provided elegant dining in the Resort. An indoor courtyard with ponds, a bridge, and benches provided a peaceful experience.
In the Grand Foyer, Delta witnesses a lone Little Sister harvesting a corpse, shortly before he first encounters and fights a Big Sister.
Demeter's Banquet Hall
Named after Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture, this area was once a lavish two-story dining area with an impressive view of the ocean through a large glass window. The area lies in ruins, with entrances and stairways down to the main floor blocked by rubble. The Banquet Hall becomes submerged after a Big Sister slices the window open after an encounter with Subject Delta.
Map
Station
Values
Bandito
Garden
Bank
Panel
Corpse
Vent
People Machine
Diary
Tonic
New Discoveries
Advertisement for the resort.
Neon sign for the Adonis Luxury Resort.
New Weaponry
New Plasmids and Tonics
New Enemies
- Thuggish Splicer
- Leadhead Splicer
- Big Sister
- Rumbler (seen only)
- Bouncer (seen only)
- Rosie (seen only)
- Miniature Turret (seen only)
Audio Diaries
- "Big Kate" O'Malley - Attention: Workers! - To the left of the pool room generator in Adonis Baths.
- Rachelle Jacques - Fitness - In the locked sauna room of Adonis Baths.
- Sofia Lamb - To My Daughter - In the women's restroom.
- Brigid Tenenbaum - Return - In the area with two Splicers in the water, on a bench to the right.
- Mark Meltzer - They Called it Rapture - Next to an open suitcase in the blocked entryway to the Rapture Metro Station.
- Andrew Ryan - Generation - On the counter of the Cocktail Lounge in the lobby where a Big Sister attacks.
- Sammy Fletcher - Escape from Rapture - On a corpse in a crashed bathysphere during the first ocean walk.
Burial at Sea - Episode 2
The Adonis Luxury Resort was one of the locations suggested to be attacked whenever Atlas and his followers manage to escape from Fontaine's. A map of Rapture shows that the resort is located close to Olympus Heights, or may even be a part of the district.
Gallery
Behind the Scenes
- The graffiti on the plaque directly across from the Vita-Chamber where Delta first awakens reads "Fallen, fallen is Babylon." This is a reference to the Bible passage Revelation 18:2, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird."
- This level holds several references to the first two introductory levels of BioShock, The Lighthouse and Welcome to Rapture:
- When exiting the Vita-Chamber room, glowing Little Sister eyes can be seen peering out from a vent, before quickly vanishing. The same scene was present in the Lounge outside the bathysphere station in Welcome to Rapture.
- The player also has an opportunity to try out Electro Bolt on Splicers in water, simulare to the one found in the Welcome center in BioShock.
- Before climbing the stairs towards the lobby, the player can see a Rosie outside the window in the hallway, using its Rivet Gun to seal a leak on the window's frame. A similar sighting was present during the descent to Rapture in the original game, with a Rosie doing maintenance inside a glass tunnel above the path of the bathysphere. Those are some of the few occasions in which a Big Daddy can be seen using its equipment to complete maintenance instead of fighting (i.e. using Rivets to secure damaged components).
- When walking on the ocean floor after the encounter with the Big Sister at Demeter's Banquet Hall and past the wrecked bathysphere, the tail of Jack's plane, Apollo Air Flight DF-0301, can be seen lodged on rocks above the path.
- Some of the aquatic fauna encountered during the walk on the ocean floor were present during the descent to Rapture in the original game, such as a giant squid and a whale, the later being referenced by a skeleton under which the path goes.
- During the first level, you will come across the only Rapture Metro station in BioShock 2.
- The player can also spot advertisement for the Kashmir Restaurant, which is located in the Welcome Center.
- During the scene in which the player witnesses a Rumbler attacking Splicers, it is possible with noclip and god mode (console commands on the PC) to pass through the glass and deal with an otherwise "unreachable" Little Sister. She is guarded by a Rumbler (be warned, this enemy is very strong, especially on Hard). Enable god mode and noclip through the display, and deal with the Rumbler. Once he falls, adopt/harvest this "extra" Little Sister. As such, the player can use the Little Sister detector and she will point to a body in that same hallway, but if the player attempts to harvest from it, she will disappear. There is a vent right in the area where she can be rescued or harvested.
- The only partially-accessible Rapture Metro Station in the game is found on this level. The player can't reach the actual broken bathysphere, but it is viewable through gates and features many useful items scattered around it.
- An article from Game Informer #204 mentions that the flooding sequence was originally built as throwaway work for an early proof of the "Capture the Big Sister" concept demo. It proved too popular and iconic to be removed from the game.
- In Game Informer #204, 2K Games mentions that Adonis Luxury Resort was the last level created, the first being Dionysus Park which was redone during the course of the game's development.
- During the first underwater walk outside to the Atlantic Express, the player will notice that part of Garry Schyman's musical track, Ten Years Later, was slightly altered and extended from the original. Part of the track will continually play, until reaching the wide view of Rapture, which will automatically cue the climax of the track.
- If the player looks up during the panorama view of Rapture, they will see a large head of Andrew Ryan's statue lurching above their right, and the large letters below are those from the Hotel Monseñor facing sideways.
- This level is the only one where every type of Big Daddy in the main game can be seen, except for the Elite Bouncer.
- In Deco Devolution: The Art of BioShock 2, this level is known as Prelude. The game files actually refers to it as "prelude2," as another introductory level was originally planned before being scratched. It would have featured a playable scene set during the 1958 New Year's Eve Masquerade Ball, similar to the game's introduction cutscene.