![]() I have hope a sequel could deliver on the fantastic premise and stellar world-building, but just like nuclear fusion, it’s an optimistic dream rather than an exciting current reality. The individual atoms and particles have wonderful potential, but their quantum connection to each other feels wholly missing thanks to their competing directions. ![]() Fingerguns-6/10Ītomic Heart is a solid yet over-indulgent first entry from a developer that maybe had more ideas than it could manage at once. Atomic Heart’s story, gameplay, and world design have promise, but the payoff is lacking across the board. It feels like P-3 and the player are getting double-crossed at every turn. P-3 will spend a lot of time questioning why doors are so hard to open or why he’s even doing a given task, and players will be too. However, given how unlikely such a monumental change like that would be, Atomic Heart is destined to be a one-and-done type of experience. ![]() Maybe if the gameplay evolved beyond its basic beginnings or if the story was - I don’t know, good - I might be willing to give it another go. But beyond its pristine setting and ass-kicking soundtrack, it’s largely forgettable. I admire the gusto with which Mundfish approached its debut game because it’s created one hell of a world to explore. Still, all the heavy metal shredding in the world isn’t enough to save the experience from its extremely poor user interface design and lack of basic accessibility features. Every moment of gameplay is packed with tense combat against haywire animatronics. Mundfish has managed to capture the thrill of over-the-top action taking full advantage of Atomic Heart’s 1950s setting and insane narrative. I have no doubt it’ll become some sort of cult classic among a particular type of FPS player. It’s unbelievably crass in one breath, then delivers a cogent summary of contemporary issues around AI the next. It will take your breath away with a setpiece one minute, then make you spend the next 10 fiddling with an annoying puzzle while the protagonist swears about how annoying this puzzle is. PC Gamer-78/100Ītomic Heart is a surprising, ambitious, deeply flawed game that at times feels close to greatness. Image via Forbes IGN-8/10Ītomic Heart is a highly imaginative, atompunk-inspired attempt at picking up where the likes of BioShock left off that makes missteps but definitely has the ticker to punch well above its weight. What we can tell you is that the reviews are quite a mixed bag, as you’ll see for yourself. And now that the game has finally arrived, does it measure up to the excitement we all had for it? Read on to find out what game critics are saying about Atomic Heart. This will inevitably lead to Atomic Heart being put into the same company as these classics. Among a list of claims being made against Atomic Heart developer Mundfish is that the studio used funds “from Russian enterprises and banks that were under sanctions and are systemically important for the Russian government.” We reported on this the day following the game’s release.īack to Atomic Heart, the game’s retro futuristic aesthetic and setting in an alternate-history 1955 Russian “utopian” automatocracy strongly recall classic shooter franchises like Fallout and especially Bioshock, as do some of its gameplay elements. It also has gravity-defying water, killer plants, zombies, and robots that have gone berserk thanks to the activation of secret combat programming.Like a certain other AAA game that came out in February, Atomic Heart has not been without its share of controversy, with the Ukrainian government calling for a ban of its sale in their own country as well as others. 20th century Russian science fiction readers saw this world as the ideal evolution of their society, much as the United Federation of Planets from Star Trek is the go-to model of a better future for many western sci-fi fans.įacility 3826, the setting of Atomic Heart, is an homage to the futurism seen in Soviet-Era science fiction novels like the " Noon Universe." The buildings and laboratories of this sprawling science city are sleek, brightly lit, and filled with anachronistic marvels like holograms, sophisticated computer networks, holograms, and different kinds of labor-saving robots. The novels and stories of the Noon Universe painted a picture of a 22nd century utopian Earth, filled with advanced technology that eliminated the need for most manual labor. The website for Russian developer Mundfish describes Atomic Heart as " an adventure first-person shooter, events of which unfolds in an alternate universe during the high noon of the Soviet Union." The use of the phrase " High Noon" isn't just a poetic flourish, but a likely a reference to the " Noon Universe," a science-fiction saga written from the 1960's to the 1980's by Russian Science Fiction authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (the same creator of the seminal novel Roadside Picnic).
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