and the relationship between humanity and robotics. The story also attempts to be thematically deep but ends up being about an ocean wide but a puddle deep when it comes to soviet utopias, A.I. It’s unfortunate too because a lot of care seemingly went into the aesthetics of the world and enemy designs. This made the story feel nonsensical, confusing, and worst of all: boring. Instead the game has a tendency to throw players into situations with little to no context without a “hook”. You were given just enough information that the intrigue of discovering more was enough to keep you playing. What made games like Bioshock work is that the storytelling in that particular game presented players with a hook and a dangling carrot of a mystery for them to uncover. Equipped with a polymer “glove” that allows him to wield powers such as electricity, it’s up to P-3 to set things right.Īfter a graphically impressive introduction, players are thrust into this world without any rhyme or reason. system that every single robot is connected together through. Players will take up the role of P-3, a no-nonsense officer sent to Facility 3826 to deal with robots that were once obedient going completely rogue and to figure out what the hell is going on with “the kollectiv,” an A.I. On the surface, Atomic Heart is another power fantasy immersive sim set in a dystopia gone wrong in the vein of Bioshock and Prey, but the game’s myriad of problems hold it back from being anything other than a footnote in an ever crowded spiritual successor landscape. Despite impressive showings and an alarming controversy, the game is finally here and in the hands of players worldwide. Atomic Heart from developer Mundfish is quite the conundrum in the way that I kept asking myself, “how did this go so wrong?” Announced all the way back in 2017, the game has had a long development cycle fueled by player hype and expectation over what the game actually was or what it was going to entail.

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