Abandoned, save for an army of killer robots that is. It puts us in the shoes of a KGB agent known only as P-3 as he explores an abandoned manufacturing facility.
The game takes place in an alternate reality 1950s Soviet Union. Ammo is said to be quite scarce, and there'll be stealth as well, so it doesn't sound like we'll be going around with guns blazing this time. The world is on the verge of the greatest event. In the Soviet Union of the future, in 1955, science reigns supreme. The trailer literally ends by saying it'll release in "#ber," and seeing as none of the four mounts with that suffix have a prefix of seven letters, it's easy to see that the devs are just being coy.Ītomic Heart is set to be a game predominantly about shooting, albeit with some melee action. Welcome to Atomic Heart, a close world action RPG. The game is set to release in the fourth quarter of this year, although we aren't sure which month. Atomic Heart, an upcoming open-world, first-person action RPG from the developers of scrapped VR game Soviet Lunapark has just given us a better look at its story, as well as a release window. We all love a good nightmarish, alternate history story, don't we? We don't? Fine, be like that. You read that right the developers are teasing the actual launch month.
The game will be coming ber 2022, to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series XS and Windows PC. Janu.Atomic Heart gets a holiday release window alongside story trailer Developer Mundfish shared a new trailer for the upcoming open-world action RPG Atomic Heart to reveal the game’s release window. "Sci-Fi Shooter Atomic Heart in Development Hell: Report". "Atomic Heart Developer Q&A on NVIDIA RTX/DLSS, PvP Regions, Simultaneous Console Release and DLC". "Atomic Heart Has the Coolest Trailer of the Year, But What Actually Is It?". ↑ "What do we know about Atomic Heart?".The report stated that development had been rebooted as of August 2018, and it resulted in a gameplay downgrade. In January 2019, a report was published on gaming forum ResetEra that cited anonymous sources within Mundfish who reported about mass layoffs and incompetency at the studio. DevelopmentĪtomic Heart uses Unreal Engine 4 and implements Nvidia RTX and DLSS technologies in the GeForce RTX graphics cards. The main protagonist is a mentally-unstable KGB special agent called P-3, who is sent by the government to investigate a manufacturing facility that has fallen silent, only to find out that the machines have gone rogue and bioengineering strange experiments. A believer in a collective consciousness, Sechenov plans to launch the most advanced iteration of the "Collectiv" on his 55th birthday in 1955. This results in the automation of much of Soviet labor and the development of a proto-Internet called the "Collectiv 1.0" linking these robots, vastly increasing productivity and scientific advancement by the end of the 1940s.Ĭoncurrently, scientist Dmitriy Sechenov develops the 'neuro-polymer,' a programmable module based on living tissue. Advances in robotics in the 1930s enabled the USSR to defeat Nazi Germany in 1941, though with a much more severe loss of life. Plot SettingĪtomic Heart takes place in the Soviet Union in an alternate 1955. Quick-time events are also featured in the game. Ammo in the game is scarce and there is a sneaking option.
Weapons can also be upgrades via a mechanic called 'casettes'. There is a crafting system where the weapons can be pieced together from metal parts that can be detached from robots or taken from household appliances. The combat in the game consists of shooting and melee swinging with improvised weapons. A screenshot of the interface, with a makeshift weapon on screenĪtomic Heart is a FPS video game with action role-playing elements.