![]() It's your job to find out what's happened and put an end to the chaos. Robots are out of control, once-dead creatures walk again, and traps have been set to ensnare any who enter. On arrival it's clear that everything is, to put it mildly, royally 'frell'ed. You play Major Nechaev, a mentally unstable KGB special agent codenamed P-3, and the government has sent you to investigate a manufacturing facility that's fallen silent. Robots have been mass-produced to help with agriculture, defence, timber production and simple household chores-and now they're starting to rebel. all these innovations are submerged in the atmosphere of communism, confrontation with the imperialism of the West and all the other inherent political and social aspects of the time.” As Mundfish CEO Robert Bagratuni told IGN, the USSR still exists in this reality, "but a technical revolution has already taken place: robots, the Internet, holograms have already been invented. The devs say the story is a bit like an episode of Black Mirror-if the show were set in a warped version of the Soviet Union sometime between the '30s and '60s. (Image credit: Mundfish) What's the story? The premise? Its combat is a mixture of shooting and melee with improvised weapons, and the scarcity of ammo means you'll want to sneak through some areas, too. Looks fun! What is Atomic Heart?Īn alternate reality Soviet-era first-person combat game with killer robots, clown-themed torture chambers, and grandmas trapped in flowing molecular gloop. There's lady androids with impaling each other with unicorns to some unfathomable end? I don't know! I just watch things and write words.Īmid the maelstrom of things meeting violent ends, there are lots of combat options on display-all sorts of powers from the player's left hand, like telekinesis and ice jets, with equally varied weaponry in the right, including pistols, electrified rifles, and a pitchfork that's also apparently a big pair of scissors. There's a massive, rolling Soviet death robot. And by pulpy, I'm including the many and various ways living things are pulped throughout the duration. With this latest gameplay footage, Atomic Heart continues its. Here's the latest Atomic Heart combat trailer Whenever Atomic Heart hits, it'll be a day one release for Xbox Game Pass, and hopefully Game Pass for PC too. While the release window was originally set and later confirmed as being in late 2022, a recent announcement that Atomic Heart would now be published by Focus Interactive described the game as "initially planned for 2022." Similarly, its Steam page has changed from an explicit 2022 release date to the more vague "this Winter." The implication seems to be that we should expect Atomic Heart in 2023. It's unclear whether that'll be in 2022 or 2023, as Atomic Heart's release plans have been very fluid the last few months, to say the least. When is Atomic Heart's release date?Ĭurrently, Atomic Heart is set to release this winter. But what do you actually get when you mix all of those influences together? Here's everything we know about Atomic Heart. Its inspirations are varied: you'll spot flashes of Metro, BioShock, Nier: Automata and Stalker in its art and gameplay, while the world is a product of both Russian sci-fi and the experiences of the Mundfish dev team, some of whom grew up in Russia. It quickly became one of the most anticipated games we know the least about. Next to nobody had heard of Atomic Heart before it dropped a disturbing, explosive trailer in May 2018.
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