Atomic Heart: this post-apo USSR-style BioShock has bad news
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- 02 Jun 2022
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Perhaps this name means nothing to you and yet Atomic Heart has been more and more talked about since its announcement in May 2018: it must be said that its inspirations are obvious and directly drawn from great tenors like BioShock or Fallout , all with premium plastic. Except that…
Russia, Death + Robots
Apparently, Atomic Heart has earned a small reputation since its first appearance four years ago: its universe takes place in a universe where the USSR has survived thanks to the use of avant-garde robots; the very people… who went mad and ended up destroying everything. The result is a Soviet world, destroyed and ultra-dangerous in which the hero will evolve with shotgun blows but also with powers directly inspired by BioShock plasmids : in short, a mixture of genres rather tempting for many.
This open-world FPS developed by Russian studio Mundfish was supposed to be released this year on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series and Xbox One (even with an Xbox Game Pass release) but fate has finally decided otherwise: it will be for 2023. And the reasons are quite obvious: the conflict in Ukraine has considerably slowed down the construction site, the developers being fully impacted by the sanctions of the various countries applied to Russia.
A paused development
It was the Polish site XGP who was able to get hold of this information, revealing in passing that the design of Atomic Heart was simply put on hold about a month after the start of the events in Ukraine. Today, Mundfish continues to pedal in semolina and therefore preferred to delay her baby until next year.
Some will say that the developers are no longer there: not only was the game announced in 2018, but we learned that the game's screenwriter had been working on the script for… more than seven years . Read More…
