The Glade 4.0

For anyone who can shed any light on the storyline, I'd appreciate it. I didn't finish the first game, but I've heard from friends what happened. They said that Andrew whatever his name is died and the main character floated to the top as all the little sisters were saved. They then said Rapture was basically destroyed or at least left in ruin.

So if that's true, I'm really confused about what's going on in this one. You start out in 1958 (at the beginning of Bioshock 2) where there's a cutscene of you (the big daddy prototype) getting shot in the head. Then you wake up 10 years later (which is baffling enough, but I'll forget about that for a minute). From what I understand, the first Bioshock took place in 1960, 8 years before Bioshock 2. So now that it's 8 years later, there's still little sisters and other big daddys, along with the new big sisters who are basically adolescent little sisters that have developed into freakishly agile and strong creatures.

If the little sisters were all saved, why are they still here 8 years later?

If you get shot in the head, why do you wake up in 10 years just fine?

If Rapture is in ruins, why does it look just fine when this game starts 8 years after the first game?

If little sisters were saved, how are there big sisters?

Or, were my friends just a little foggy when it comes to the storyline for the end of Bioshock 1? What really happened at the end of Bioshock 1? This whole storyline is a bit out there, so it's easy to get confused if you don't remember the first game too well.

They may have gone with the bad ending as canon to Bioshock 1 - the one where you start killing the Little Sisters out of lust for ADAM, and then hijack a nuclear weapon..

The game starts with the plane crash, and quickly becomes about stopping Andrew Ryan, who is the "bad guy." Fontaine guides you around what you're doing, and you get a little information here and there from different sources and such as to what happened: Andrew Ryan was attempting to stop a smuggling ring and basically triggered a civil war in Rapture.

About three-quarters of the way through the game you find out the truth; you're basically the genetically engineered child of Ryan, created by Fontaine; who turns out to be the guy that was running the smuggling ring. You have various codes implanted into your brain, so that when they're said to you you'll do things. One of these is the phrase "would you kindly" which when you find this out is pretty crazy, as Fontaine has been saying it to you throughout the whole game as he's guiding you along.

Depending on whether you save or kill the little sisters, you'll get one of two endings. Both are short, and you can probably find them on youtube without any issue. In the good ending, you escape rapture with the little sisters (some of them at least, it's unclear if you've saved them all or not). In the bad ending, you take over for Fontaine, leaving Rapture with the splicers. Neither has Rapture being destroyed.

No twists, which is fine. Lack of end boss was kinda lame, but the actual ending was much better.

One level where you play as a little sister, the flashes between what they see and the real world are staggering.