Although the action borrows most heavily from BioShock, its 1950s post-WWII aesthetic is reminiscent of Fallout. The gameplay loop is tried-and-true: explore a facility overrun with enemies, upgrade your weapons and magic-like powers and uncover shocking truths. True to the genre, the mission gets increasingly complicated as society plunges further and further into chaos. Gamers control special forces operative Major Sergei Nechaev (aka Agent P-3), who is deployed to clean up the mess alongside Charles, a powerful experimental glove with artificial intelligence. Things take a quick downward turn when a prison-colony scientist manipulates the artificial intelligence network, “Kollektiv 2.0,” to turn the legions of robots into aggressive killing machines. In true communist fashion, the Soviet goal is to use these robots to create a post-labor world. In the case of Atomic Heart, it’s set in 1955, in the hypothetical scenario where the USSR wins World War II thanks to its scientists’ development of a liquidized programmable module called Polymer, which leads to breakthrough advancements in the fields of energy and robotics. They also love to get gamers thinking about the morality of scientific advancement. These sci-fi shooters have some common elements: an immersive, imaginative historical fiction setting, pseudo-science magical powers and a story with lots of twists. 21, and players are already calling it “BioShock in the USSR.”Ītomic Heart has big shoes to fill, and in my opinion, it mostly manages. Atomic Heart was released on Tuesday, Feb. So while we all wait for BioShock creator Ken Levine’s new game Judas to launch most likely in 2025 – seriously – or for Cloud Chamber Collective to deliver some sort of news about the fourth BioShock game beyond rumors and speculation, fans of the genre have to make due with what they can get their hands on. It’s been ages since there was a new System Shock, BioShock has been absent for a decade following the disassembly of developer Irrational Games, and Arkane Studios’ excellent Prey (2017) seems to have been a one-off. There’s a particularly compelling brand of science-fiction first-person shooters out there, and they don’t come often.
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