![]() ![]() The atmosphere is oppressive, unsettling even, and it hints at a more cerebral game than it turns out to be.Įnemies take a huge amount of punishment, and some of them can insta-kill you if you fail a quick-time event. You’re creeping through halls smeared with blood, past bodies wrapped up in electrical cables and high-tensile tentacles. For most of the early game you’ve only got a shotgun with limited ammo and an axe. The weird thing is, it takes an incredibly long time for Atomic Heart to get anywhere near the balls-out action game the trailers depict it as. This happens more than once.īefore long though, things go inevitably tits-up, and P-3 ends up having to fight through an experimental facility overrun by killer robots and plant-headed zombies. He’s the kind of guy who asks how something works and then shouts “Boring!” half way through the explanation. You can set his voice actor to Russian if you want to, otherwise you’ll be listening to a cocky, standard-issue US generi-soldier just being generally rude and unpleasant for hours on end. We also have P-3 being a dick to the glove for no given reason. In just the first half hour we have multiple tracking shots of the city, busy crowds that don’t feature again, various info-dumps, a little light pandering to China, and two interminable elevator rides, just so we can look at all the pretty. If Atomic Heart spent as much time telling its story as gazing lovingly into its own reflection the opening wouldn’t feel so uncomfortably drawn-out. Why you’ve come to Chelomey and where you’re going isn’t immediately made clear. Your character is a soldier whose life was saved by Sechenov, and who now wears a special Polymer glove, fitted with an advanced AI named Charles. Polymer leapfrogged humanity forward several decades in terms of technology, so Atomic Heart also has the 1950s retro-futurism made famous by Bioshock. ![]() ![]() In this reality, Russia won World War 2 when Sechenov developed the Polymer, a kind of all-purpose, might-as-well-be-magic technology used for pretty much any plot inconvenience you stumble across. It’s hardly subtle, and the atmosphere is undeniably familiar.Ĭhelomey is one of many floating cities designed by Russian visionary, Doctor Sechenov. It’s all so twee that you just know everyone you see will eventually end up skull-humped by the scores of robots walking among them. The opening hammers this home particularly strongly in a protracted cutscene where your American-accented Russian agent Sergey Nechayev, or P-3, enjoys a leisurely boat ride along the canals of Chelomey, a Columbia-esque city in the sky. It looks good on the outside, fits in with the upmarket crowd, will almost certainly turn a few heads, but beneath the well-dressed veneer, it’s an inelegant monstrosity that can’t keep its knuckles off the floor for long.ĭeveloper Mundfish wears its inspirations on its sleeves here, and at least at surface level Atomic Heart is equal parts Bioshock: Infinite and Fallout 4. Cassette cartridges and various modifications will help you use the environment to your advantage and exploit enemy vulnerabilities.įinally, you can watch the E3 2021 trailer from the player below.The best way to describe Atomic Heart is to liken it to a thug in a pinstripe suit. Use pieces and components with the “Chaika 3.0” device to create more than 30 types of melee weapons and firearms. If you are noticed either above or under the ground, the reinforcements from the nearest factory will come to kill you. Can you survive?Ī neural network named “Kollektiv” unifies ground-based and flying robots alike into a single hivemind. Uncover soviet secrets! But know that death hides in every corner. Find out more about the employees and their ways of life and work. Turn everything into a weapon: environment, objects, your own body, and even enemies themselves! Every fight will be different from the last.Įxplore huge research facilities and test sites. Use the varied arsenal of arms and special abilities of your polymer glove. Study the behavior of your enemies and observe how they relate to each other. You are Major P-3 and your task is to eliminate the consequences of a large-scale accident and prevent the leakage of classified information threatening to destroy the whole world. Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:Ī global system failure happens at the Soviet Facility №3826 that leads machinery to rebel against the people. Finally, you can watch the E3 2021 trailer from the player below. Atomic Heart will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC platforms. Mundfish has released the E3 2021 trailer for Atomic Heart. New images from Atomic Heart have arrived, and we also learned that the game will be available on Xbox Game Pass from day one. ![]()
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