Sci-fi gunplay and powers combo and Dead Island’s melee combat take center stage, but there is also a weapon crafting system reminiscent of Fallout 4 that plays a huge part in the game’s progression. In playing Atomic Heart, you can almost feel the games that inspired its developer breaking through.
Mundfish’s art direction team must have worked overtime on this and it shows.
Things like the spiral masses of polymer that can be swam through as whispers of the past echo in your ears, and the metal tentacles that stick out of walls to suspend corpses in their grasp inspire wonder and fear in equal measure. The level of environmental detail and the way they are used for storytelling is fantastic. When you actually gain control of Major Sergei Nechaev, nicknamed P-3, the protagonist of Atomic Heart, things pick up very quickly and begin to get interesting. "The level of environmental detail and the way they are used for storytelling is fantastic." This shows up a few times throughout the game, but its worse at the beginning. By that point, I was fifteen minutes into the game without any kind of real gameplay outside of walking and interacting with various things.
But these sequences went for far too long for my liking. Everything is visually breathtaking, without a doubt. The rest of the opening was comprised of several, long cutscenes where the game takes its time to show you its gorgeous world and sumptuous graphics. I literally felt like clutching my head, screaming, and running somewhere quiet. This sequence happens only in the opening (you don’t deal with groups of humans for the rest of the game), but it left a pretty bad taste in my mouth almost immediately. However, your first foray into Atomic Heart is also marked by walking through a crowd and being bombarded with a cacophony of conversations, all seemingly happening at the same time. That much is clear from the game’s spectacular opening. The designs of the world, people, and robots you encounter are breathtaking, and the graphical fidelity on display is very impressive. Of course, it’s easy to imagine that this largely new, untested studio would believe it has something to prove.Įverything up to and even slightly after the title card drop is dedicated to introducing you to Atomic Heart’s world, and it is every bit as visually impressive as the trailers would have you believe. Atomic Heart is the studios’ first major game and one that is also incredibly high profile, with seemingly the entire games industry anticipating it. The developer’s need to “wow” or shock you is palpable throughout the game, and while some of it works, some of it comes across as strained. " Atomic Heart, for better or worse, is a game that is obsessed with spectacle."Ītomic Heart, for better or worse, is a game that is obsessed with spectacle. Does that mean Atomic Heart isn’t worth your time? However, while the gameplay is solid, the game falls short in other areas.
And after playing the game, I can tell you that those comparisons are mostly accurate. Immediate parallels were drawn between Atomic Heart and many other modern shooters, citing the “utopia gone wrong” narrative and complex combat that makes use of both weapons and special powers. For the past four years, various story trailers and gameplay overviews have conveyed to us a project that is a wildly ambitious technological showcase, while also being narratively and mechanically dense.
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