“I’m a magnet for annoying bullshit,” he whines, as you start your fifth or sixth mission to find a thing to unlock a thing which you then use on another thing en route to the next thing. The developers also clearly know this opening act is boring as hell because P-3’s dialog mostly focuses on how much he hates having to find an endless array of canisters or keys to progress through unremarkable corridors and rooms. Mundfishĭespite promising an open-world adventure, the first few hours of Atomic Heart are linear, packed with a sequence of dull fetch quests interspersed with punishing battles. It’s confusing you never know if you’re gaining the upper hand, and given that stealth takedowns require as much luck as skill–and ammo is scarce–you can find yourself reloading your game to avoid being so wasteful. Still, shooting a standard android full-bore in the face with a standard shotgun sees them backflip and come back for more, showing little-to-no damage.
Guns are weighty and melee weapons pack a punch. You’ll need to master that dodge, too–strafing is painfully slow compared to forward motion, presumably to reflect real-life movement, but this is a poor decision given the intensity of combat, especially during boss encounters.įighting initially feels decent. Even on Atomic Heart’s standard “Local Failure” difficulty, it only takes a couple of entry-level baddies to get the better of you, should you mistime a dodge or fail to connect with a swift ax to the face. Ammo and consumables are in short supply enemies are resilient semi-regular safe rooms offer you save points and storage you have a slot-based system for the items you can carry and there’s more than your fair share of dystopian horror.Ĭrucially, it demands your full attention, because you’ll get pummeled into the ground if you lose focus. For all its surface-level comparisons to BioShock Infinite, Atomic Heart has more in common with the Resident Evil franchise. Stop trying to make fetch happenįrom the moment you drop into a bunker to avoid being mulched like one of many identical dead and questionably unarmed Soviet troops, the story takes a bit of a back seat as you learn the game’s core mechanics. So begins Atomic Heart’s badly paced tale of pseudo-intrigue. The USSR soon succumbs to a robot rebellion, where haunted-looking androids develop a mass taste for carnage across Facility 3826, the Motherland’s prime tech hub. You can't knock Atomic Heart's art direction.
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