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Atomic Heart
Atomic Heart is an adventure first-person shooter, events of which unfolds in an alternate universe during the high noon of the Soviet Union. The principal character of the game is a special agent P-3, who after an unsuccessful landing on enterprise "3826" is trying to figure out what went wrong.
Details
- Released
- February 20, 2023
- Developer
- Mundfish
- Genres
- FPS · Shooter · Action · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Open world
- Publisher
- Focus Entertainment
- Platforms
- PC · PS4 · Xbox One · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
How it plays
Time to beat · 3 player times (IGDB)
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Atomic Heart Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Atomic Heart was made with love, talent and a great deal of cynic humor poured into the game.
A beautiful, flawed, and deeply weird Soviet Westworld.
Set in an alternate reality where the Soviets won World War 2, Atomic Heart relies on amazing audio and visuals paired with unique mechanics to make up for its predictable story. Full of robots and unexplainable abilities, find out if this dystopian RPG is for you.
Atomic heart does a lot well, but some decisions just don't sit right.
Atomic Heart wants to be BioShock, but the tone of its narrative rubber-bands in quality. It's hard to tell which parts are poorly written, and which are intentionally comedic. By contrast, the environmental and character designs are excellent, which makes it worth pushing through the rougher sections. Atomic Heart is a spectacle, and it's got more highs than lows.
Atomic Heart is a bit of a surprise. It's not perfect and the open world is an unneeded dilution, but when you're in the story missions it's always entertaining, despite occasionally dragging things out a little. It can be a bit strange, but it's the self aware kind of strange that can be a bit charming. And the robots are pretty great.
Controversy aside, Atomic Heart is a robust first-person affair, albeit one that revels in glorified Soviet iconography and Wolfenstein-esque alternate history weirdness. The difference is, there's no ambiguity in shooting Nazis – here, however, you can’t help but have a sense of unease while playing.
We live in a complicated world. Well, maybe we always have, but the links between the entertainment we enjoy and the political or moral entanglements of its creators have more and more become an issue. Some cloudy skies are hanging above Atomic Heart and Cypress-based developer Mundfish. Denied allegations of Russian data mining, possible funding from Russian investors, and the seeming unwillingness of Mundfish to outright condemn the invasion of Ukraine have created controversy. Is any of this true? Should these allegations stop you from playing Atomic Heart? Do your research and decide for y...
The story plays out like a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced popcorn atrocity, the upgrade shop might as well be Travelex given how many currencies it juggles, and the performance is less than optimal. Atomic Heart is an exercise in excess. It has some clear strengths, like its first in class art direction and gunplay, however these are far outweighed by the game’s faults.
And really, unless an extensive photo mode is added in a future update, I don’t see myself ever booting up Atomic Heart again. I admire the gusto with which Mundfish approached its debut game because it’s created one hell of a world to explore. But beyond its pristine setting and ass-kicking soundtrack, it’s largely forgettable. 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. However, given how unlikely such a monumental change like that would be, Atomic Heart is destined to be a one-and-done type of...
