Journey to the Surface (Part 1) — BioShock: The Collection eGuide

Exit the Ride Cart Garage and methodically work your way along the ride’s winding path, stopping to search each of the exhibits for items, money, and Audio Diaries. You’ll encounter the occasional Leadhead Splicer, but they are few and your bullets should be many. Descend the steps on either side of the “Oppression” exhibit to find a Health Station and an El Ammo Bandito vending machine in a small corridor below.

Turn into the room on the left, just as Sinclair instructed. Don’t let the flickering lights frighten you, since the only thing in here beside you are the heads of some puppets. Listen to Sinclair as he fills your head about ADAM and what your options are—you can rescue her and receive less ADAM (with the potential for more later on) or you harvest her for maximum ADAM. Approach the vent in the corner of the room and opt to either rescue or harvest the Little Sister.

Safe

Contents: 22 Dollars, 20 Anti-Personnel Rounds, 5 Heavy Rivets.

Leave the ride corridor behind and enter the Puppet Workshop on the left. Cross the room filled with tables of puppet heads to the stairwell in the rear and stop to hack open the safe lying on its side. No Splicers bother you here, so take your time and concentrate on the task at hand. The nearest Bot Shutdown is down the stairs beside the safe, so get running if you trigger an alarm!

Little Sisters: The Choice is Yours

As you may have sensed by now, this is the big moral dilemma in BioShock 2, just as it was in the original. What to do with the Little Sisters? These seemingly benign little girls carry ADAM within them and ADAM is the currency used to purchase additional Plasmids and Plasmid and Tonic Slots. Harvesting the Little Sister nets you large quantities of ADAM—160 units to be exact—but what kind of Big Daddy would you be if you were to sacrifice those who trust you completely? Assuming you escort the Little Sister to both gathers, you stand to gain a total of 240 ADAM from each Little Sister by harvesting them. (Of course, after you rescue four Little Sisters you will receive the Proud Parent Tonic, which gives you 280 ADAM for choosing to rescue your ward).

On the other hand, what would Tenenbaum, or better still, Eleanor, think of this behavior? Choosing to rescue a Little Sister only earns you 80 units of ADAM, but has the potential to earn you other rewards from the Little Sisters as a sign of gratitude in the future. Clearly how you approach the Little Sisters in Rapture has a severe impact on not only how many Plasmids you’ll likely acquire, but also on your relations with them.

It’s best to harvest all of the Little Sisters (after completing all of their gathers) during your first playthrough of the game so that you not only get to experience one of the story endings, but can acquire all of the Plasmids and tonics and unlock as many Achievements/Trophies as possible. This also helps you decide which Plasmids you enjoy using the most. Then, on a second or third play-through, try to complete the game without harvesting any of the Little Sisters. This makes powering up your character much more difficult early on, but earns you a different story outcome and access to some rather unique tonics later on.

Buy the Incinerate! Plasmid at the Hall of the future

Now that you have enough ADAM, you can purchase the Incinerate! Plasmid. This item allows you to melt the ice blocking the train station bulkhead and get back to finding your Little Sister, Eleanor Lamb. The Gatherer’s Garden that sells Incinerate! can be found in the Hall of the Future.