The railway infrastructure Bagratuni touched on makes me think of Metro, which is another game for our already towering pile of speculative influences. So, Atomic Heart is an open-world first-person shooter set in an alternate Soviet Union where some seriously strange stuff’s going down. As for whether this is a shooter: in some places it is, it depends where you can find ammo.” The key infrastructure elements are connected by railways. At the same time, the huge infrastructure of Plant 3826 and its underground facilities are spread all over the map. The world of the game is in fact the entire Soviet Union-a vast circle, the borders of which reach the Arctic in the north, Altai mountain in the south, and with plains, lakes and much more in the middle.

“We want to enable players to choose the sequence of actions themselves instead of limiting them to a linear path.

We also live-blogged the show as it happened right here.“Atomic Heart was conceived as an open-world game,” said Mundfish CEO Robert Bagratuni. James spoke to Mundfish back in February this year where they discussed both the comparisons to certain classic first-person shooters as well as the tech underlying Atomic Heart's world.įor more of the latest news and trailers, check out our Game Awards 2022 hub. It's all very reminiscent of Splicers and Plasmids. The protagonist, meanwhile, possesses an experimental polymer glove that gives you access to an expandable arsenal of magic powers. That said, BioShock still seems a relevant touchpoint when it comes to Atomic Heart's story, which features a floating city and humans who modify themselves to be smarter and stronger via 'polymer injections'. It's all a reminder that developers Mundfish refer to Atomic Heart as an 'action RPG', suggesting Diablo and its ilk are as much a relevant point of comparison as BioShock. Each trailer is more bombastic than the last though, with this newest one featuring quick cuts, swarms of enemies and huge explosions. Here's the new 'Arlekino' trailer, which features more backpedalling than a Serious Sam game:Ītomic Heart initially seemed like it might be reminiscent of Stalker and BioShock, with a striking world to explore filled with creatively-designed monsters to fight via thoughtful first-person combat.

There is a new trailer however, shown tonight during The Game Awards, and it continues to convince me that Atomic Heart won't be short on spectacular setpieces. It's still coming out on February 21st, 2023. It's still a Soviet-inspired first-person shooter about battling unsettling robots in an alt-history 1950s. There's no real news to report about Atomic Heart.

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