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#ATOMIC HEART SCREENSHOTS UPGRADE#

Next to the traits that offer you extended health and catlike reflexes you can upgrade your skill tree with elemental damage, your robotic opponents having various weaknesses and strengths. The good news is that you have a great amount of freedom to modify your arsenal, upgrade it through various materials you collect and freely play around with the abilities of your character. The munition, just as your inventory space is limited so you are being challenged, especially on higher levels of difficulty, to be creative. With the exception of the bosses, most robots are rebuilt by flying drones so, eliminating them just gives you a short breather to figure out the puzzles and your way forward. Too bad some of the game mechanics feel like fillers and do not really add value to the experience. Atomic Hearts encourages you to explore not just the game world, but also the gameplay options.

Due to the setting of the game you cannot really eliminate the robots that are trying to kill you, and you will be constantly challenged to find creative and fast ways to reach your objective. The gameplay itself is an interesting mix of puzzles, platforming and exploration.

Throughout the entire game you feel like the soldier you are controlling is no more than a jarhead with some survival skills. The relation between your hero and his companion AI, housed in the wonder glove, is presented through dialogues that lack finesse and more often than not prove to be fillers. Most of the plot twists are foreseeable and the character development is almost inexistent. After the first 30 minutes you will be surrounded by dead bodies and murderous robots, your only trusted companion being an AI driven glove.Īs good as the build-up is, the way the story itself unfolds can be chalked down as disappointing. Without giving away too much about the story we can say that if something looks too good to be true, it always is.

#ATOMIC HEART SCREENSHOTS FULL#

The new neural implant takes a step even further allowing people to become savants and geniuses in a matter of minutes.Ītomic Heart starts full of hope and color, and by gradually revealing what lies behind the curtains of the floating city you will discover the bloody price, humanity has to pay for this advancement. At every step you will stumble upon robots that take over all chores, big and small alike, thus freeing mankind to pursue science and art. Strolling through streets in the boots of Major Sergey Nechayev, codenamed Agent P-3, you will feel like the hero of an immersive sci-fi novel, where technology that we still dream about in the present is already available in the Soviet Union of the ‘50s. It is a world that starts out as alive and bustling and then slowly shows its true colors. The designers managed to build a world that you want to get lost in, where you want to explore every corner and wonder at the ingenious way technology was integrated into the daily lives of a world marked by communist landmarks. But if there is anything that dystopic games have taught us is that there is always a price to pay.įrom the very first scene when you peacefully cruise down a small boat in the middle of an idyllic city you will be enveloped by Atomic Heart’s fantastic atmosphere. This ideal is very similar to the premise of Atomic Heart, a game long awaited by Bioshock fans.Ĭonsidered by some the bastard child of Bioshock and Metro, Atomic Heart presents an alternative universe where the Soviet Republic overcomes the struggles of mankind through technology and ushered in an era of growth never before seen. People are so happy with their lives that they do not need the weekend to take their thoughts off their work, and as such the work week extends into seven days. Monday starts on Saturday is a term coined in one of the novels by the Strugatsky brothers and describes an ideal where both science and supernatural are harvested by scientists for the betterment of mankind.

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