Ken Levine, the major influence on the critically acclaimed underwater FPS that is BioShock, has put enough distance between it and himself as is courteously possible without actually saying, "Not with a barge poll".

He tells Gama, "I'm not working on BioShock 2. I make no claim to anything on BioShock 2, and I think it's important that that's their (2K Marin's) product, and their culture. Because you can't just clone a studio."

Levine not being on the project hasn't meant, however, that it's under-resourced. If anything the opposite is true, having had yet another development team added to it this month, despite having slipped into next year.