From Joystiq today, it appears that the next BioShock post apocalyptic game will borrow heavily from Atlas Shrugged for its backstory and plot.

   "Julian Murdoch at Gamers With Jobs takes us on a tour of Quincy, MA's Irrational Games, the developers behind this underwater, art-deco opus. But it's not the usual tour of a game in development, but a tour of the motivation behind creating a intellectually sophisticated game inside the framework of a "kick-ass shooter." With hefty dollops of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's political ideology, on display not only in the game's story but in it's construction, BioShock roughly mirrors the plot of Rand's polemical Atlas Shrugged. Knowing that may not interest some of you, they're of course eager to remind everyone that it's also a "kick-ass shooter."

Read the rest and view screenshots here.  As shown in Lair, Gears of War, Resistance: Fall of Man, and Tetris, games are beginning to have much better plots than most Hollywood movies.  I will certainly have to check out BioShock when it arrives.