LOS ANGELES — "BioShock" is returning to the sea.
An upcoming downloadable chapter of the popular video game "BioShock Infinite" will be set in the underwater metropolis Rapture, Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine said Monday.
The fantastical setting served as the moody locale for the original "BioShock" shoot-'em-up game in 2007.
The follow-up "BioShock Infinite" was released earlier this year and traded the 1960 dystopia of Rapture for the idealistic 1912 floating city of Columbia.
"Infinite" was the top selling game in March, according to NPD Group.
The two-part, story-driven chapter will be titled "Burial at Sea" and feature "Infinite" protagonists Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth mysteriously meeting in the submerged city in 1958 before its demise, Levine said.
"I just had this vision of Elizabeth dressed in that period looking like Veronica Lake or Rita Hayworth," Levine said. "I just said, I want to see that image. I want to see Elizabeth in Rapture."
Levine hinted that the downloadable adventure would marry the two worlds, explaining how the characters don't remember each other and how the all-important vigor powers made their way from Rapture to Columbia and became drinkable. He also noted that this version of Rapture would be livelier than the one glimpsed in "BioShock" and 2010's "BioShock 2."
