Board Thread:General Pixel Gun 3D Discussion/@comment-25159055-20140709203354

Atlantis was an island that had been sunken.

The Atlantis map doesn't appear like it was, at any time, actually meant to be on the surface - if would if it were based on the island. Instead, I think the "Atlantis" title is just to avoid copyright, as I believe the title of Atlantis is public domain.

Instead, it seems to be based off of Rapture from the BioShock games. It has the same style, and while an Atlantis based off the island would have an ancient greek theme, an Atlantis map based off the games could have many themes, all of which based off of 20th century America. I believe Burial at Sea Episode 1 was during the 1950s, while Episode 2 (along with BioShock 1) are during the 1970s - now, we see american World War 2 propaganda on the map, implying it to be based off of the 1940s. We could assume that it is early 1940s, but at the same time, not all propaganda items are taken down once they become irrelevant. Some are simply forgotten where they were - so this could be from the early 1940s to even the early 1950s! With this in mind, in BioShock, Rapture had begun construction in 1946 and was finished in 1951.

I'm not saying Atlantis is Rapture, but Atlantis is totally Rapture. 