‘There are floating Soviet laboratories in the sky, home to a networked artificial intelligence which could signal the evolution of human consciousness a veteran USSR operative who can’t recall his past, and an army of rampaging robots designating the populace of Facility 3826 as enemy combatants after a software malfunction … Sadly, Mundfish isn’t able to weave these loose threads into anything functional.’ GameRant – 4/10 ‘ Atomic Heart front-loads its most fascinating concepts,’ reviewer Josh West wrote. GamesRadar+ had praise for the game’s big idea and concepts, but similarly felt disappointed by the messiness of the game’s story, and its failure to grasp its true potential: ‘That disparity is most evident in how the history of the world in Atomic Heart is interesting and sets up an intriguing conversation about the nature of free will and collectivism, but then the unlikable protagonist repeatedly prevents that topic from being explored.’ GamesRadar+ – 5/10 ‘There are quite a few parts of Atomic Heart that just don’t neatly fit together, and those disparities create an experience that often feels at odds with itself,’ reviewer Jordan Ramée wrote. It also noted Atomic Heart does little to endear itself to players, and that its storyline fails to do justice to a ‘cool premise’: GameSpot praised the game’s combat and soundtrack, but cited major disparities in its moving parts. ‘To put it the only way I feel I can, Atomic Heart is unadulterated, pulp schlock.’ GameSpot – 6/10 It’s got a self-referential, almost self-deprecating sense of humour that surprised me to no end and its nods to the games it so badly wanted to be – see any BioShock game – were so on the nose,’ reviewer Brodie Gibbons wrote. ‘ Atomic Heart is all at once the strangest, most off-the-wall, most bombastic game I think I’ll play this year. Our pals at Press Start Australia had a similar experience, but found the game’s performance, and its uneven narrative, held it back from greatness: ‘It certainly makes missteps, chiefly with an irritating leading man and a self-indulgent habit of using the same tired tropes it tries to make fun of, but this stern, super-powered, and stringently solo shooter has worked its way under my skin despite these flaws.’ Press Start Australia – 6.5/10 ‘ Atomic Heart is a deeply ambitious, highly imaginative, and consistently impressive atompunk-inspired attempt at picking up where the likes of BioShock left off – something it’s done with a lot of success,’ reviewer Luke Reilly wrote.
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