Atomic Heart has a very wry and self-aware sense of humour. The guys who made the Metro games were able to find talented English-speaking Russian voice actors and Atomic Heart really, REALLY needed the same treatment.
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The problem is the main Russian voice actors sounded flat to my (non-Russian speaking) ears, but the English voice actors (who did a better job with the comic timing) were mostly American or British and it is just ridiculous to have a game set in the Soviet Union where everyone sounds like they’re from Los Angeles or London.Įven the English language voice actor for your character has a very obvious “American Action Movie Hero” accent and while their performance is good, it’s incredibly jarring and completely wrecks the suspension of disbelief regarding the whole “Soviet World Of Tomorrow!” vibe – along with the fact your character looks like a lumbersexual barista rather than someone you’d find on a Soviet Armed Forces recruiting poster exhorting the proletariat to take up arms against fascists. Upgraded combat abilities can have some pretty spectacular results when properly employed. The developers specifically suggest playing the game with Russian audio and English subtitles, which certainly is a more immersive experience (and how I played the game, as a result). The level design is also excellent, as are the puzzles – I found them just difficult enough to make you think, but not difficult or obtuse enough to be frustrating.Ĭombat was well done too, with the combination of melee weapons, firearms, energy weapons, and Polymer abilities leading to some enjoyable encounters – for example, unleashing chain-lightning on enemies before double-tapping the nearest with a Makarov pistol then hacking another one in twain with an ersatz machete. I really liked the variety in the levels – your adventure across Facility 3826 covers everything from marble-lobbied government buildings to farms to a theatre with robotic performers to science labs and more. The comparisons to Bioshock are not only justified, but the game itself leans into them quite openly – I’m not going to list them all here, but you can see them for yourself in the official gameplay video. The developers have absolutely nailed the Soviet Retro-Futuristic aesthetic I absolutely believed if the Soviets had somehow invented robots and computers in the 1930s the result would be quite similar to what we experience in Atomic Heart.
The game has a range of weapons and sci-fi powers available to you. This is so obviously an idea with terrible and sinister implications that it will be no surprise at all to you, the player, that someone in the facility activates the robot’s combat mode, whereupon they proceed to kill everyone – which is about the point where you show up with a fire axe, a 12-gauge, and a multifunction AI glove named “Charles”.Ĭharles lets you access various skills known as “polymers” (the game explains it) but they allow you to do things like shoot lightning from your glove (extremely useful and your major skill throughout the game), move objects via telekinesis (which is how you loot containers, drawers, bodies, etc), and set enemies on fire. It’s a literal parade of red flags as foreshadowing. The Soviet Union is about to unveil a human-robot neural interface known as “Kollectiv 2.0”, allowing humans to control robots with their thoughts. You play Major Sergey Nechayev, codename P-3, who is a sort of special forces agent-slash-troubleshooter for a Soviet scientist named Sechenov, and arrives at the utopian Facility 3826 on a sunny day in 1955.
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In a nutshell, Atomic Heart is a cross between Bioshock and Half-Life – featuring special guest appearances by Fallout and Portal – set in an alternate version of the Soviet Union circa 1955, where thanks to the wonders of Soviet Super Science (widely regarded as considerably less evil than Nazi Super Science, although still not without its issues) the USSR is enjoying a golden age full of robots, computers, and advanced biomechanics. Welcome… to the (Soviet) World Of Tomorrow! I’m quite fond of Soviet firearms and consumer goods, because their rugged simplicity appeals to me – along with the fact that you can buy Soviet wristwatches and cameras on eBay for very reasonable prices regular readers of my writings here may have even seen pictures of my Poljot Strela cosmonaut’s watch or my Vostok Amphibia diving watch as illustrations in previous stories. Atomic Heart combines two of my many interests – in this case, retro-futurism and the Soviet Union.
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