![]() But the influence runs far deeper than aesthetic. The game’s influences are numerous – Westworld, Fallout, Arkane’s Prey – but the one that looms above them all is BioShock.Ītomic Heart’s narrative-focused opening is like a communist version of Columbia and the grandeur of its sprawling research institute, a utopia gone wrong showcasing the best of retro-futurist Soviet robotics, makes for one breathtaking vista after another. Atomic Heart is a highly imaginative, atompunk-inspired attempt at picking up where the likes of BioShock left off that makes missteps but definitely has the ticker to punch well above its weight. This is one of the oddest big-budget games I’ve played in a long time, filled with as many good ideas as bad ones, like it’s been made without a filter and everything went in. You’ll gaze into the eerie, porcelain face of an android and marvel at how well the aesthetic captures this unsettling world of humanoid robots, and then be grossed out by a vending machine begging you to “squirt your polymer in me”. ![]() ![]() ![]() A lot of Atomic Heart will leave you grasping for purchase, as it freewheelingly veers from enormous set pieces to endless fetch quests, as critiques of Russian exceptionalism rub up against a protagonist who calls robots “fat turds” and a script written with the help of a swearing thesaurus. ![]()
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