P3 spends most of the game talking to his hand, where a glove he wears contains "Charles," his AI companion. But P3 doesn't care he's a dude with a hankering for dropping his catchphrase "crispy critters" and getting down to business with a gun. If the idea of sticking something onto your head to connect to others seems like a red flag, it probably is one. The Polymer tech is part of an upcoming neural network that'll connect all of the Soviet Union and maybe more parts of the world. P3 is an ignorant asshole who spends most of the game blindly doing whatever he is told, under allegiance to the head doctor and creator of Polymer and much of the USSR's technical advancements. And again, even giving Mundfish some presumption of innocence because, of course, not everyone in Russia is pro-Russia and the invasion of Ukraine - I still couldn't get it out of my mind.īack to the fictional stuff, you play as Major P3, a terrible character who annoyed me as no one has in years. And I couldn't help but think that whilst Ukrainian developers like Frogwares struggle to work effectively between attacks on their homeland, a Russian developer in Mundfish has released a very mediocre alt-history game about robots invading and killing innocents. You will hit a point in Atomic Heart, however, where a Russian villain is talking about invasions of other countries, and it's impossible not to think about how Russia is currently invading and killing innocents all over Ukraine. I'm willing to give the team something of a pass as they could be looking out for or protecting themselves as an entirely Russian-based team living in Russia, a country with strict policies regarding anti-war and anti-Russian sentiments. There's surface-level stuff here, but even that is interesting since developer Mundfish has previously stated they don't do politics in their games. Which, when making a game about the alternative history USSR is one of the dumbest things you could say.
MISS ATOMIC HEART FREE
Is communism bad? Is communism good? What is free will? Was the Soviet Union good or bad? There's nothing here you haven't seen before, and for a game set in Russia and alternate history Soviet Union, there's little in the way of meaningful to be said here you wouldn't have seen anywhere else. I guessed where the narrative was going a couple of hours into Atomic Heart, and you probably can too. Getting through the pre-long drawn out 30 minutes it takes to properly start Atomic Heart: the robots have killed many innocent people, and the USSR wants it hushed up so they can continue to sell their robots to the world. However, when the innocent robots designed to perform chores produced by the USSR and sold around the globe go haywire, you're tasked with investigating the incident at Facility 3826. Set in an alternate history, this one sees the USSR living in the clouds, marvels of the world, and having come drastically further ahead in technological advancements than the rest of the world. Most prominently, the narrative is an array of cliches and is led by the most unlikable protagonist in a game I've played in years. It wears the inspirations on its sleeve, and although it isn't always a bad thing, Atomic Heart only manages to get the world design to be somewhat as interesting as Rapture's, but a miss-fire regarding everything else. Atomic Heart wants to be Bioshock very badly.
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