After a gorgeous intro aboard a flying city, the first of many BioShock series influences, irritable special agent P-3 (that’s you) and his snarking AI-powered glove (that’s your hand) are deposited into one of the massive science complexes that made this USSR even more of powerhouse than it was in reality. It’s the debut game of just one, Mundfish, and as a first attempt it’s impressively ambitious. Of course, Atomic Heart was not made by several teams.
For a shooter set within an alternate history Soviet Union, it could perhaps have used some more central planning.
It’s a fascinatingly chaotic medley of ideas, and a rare FPS that lacks even the slightest whiff of battle pass-peddling live serfdom, but those ideas so often fail to gel that it can feel like a game made by several different dev teams. I’ve played a lot of strange games, but never one that lurches between greatness and bafflement as hard or as fast as Atomic Heart.
A Soviet sci-fi adventure with arresting visuals and occasionally excellent shooting, marred by uneven balancing, undercooked ideas, and an unlikeable protagonist.
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