Is Atomic Heart the Russian Bioshock – or a propaganda game?

Ballerina robots play a distinguished function in Atomic Heart. Their coiffure is paying homage to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

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For a very long time we have been skeptical whether or not Atomic Heart can be launched in any respect – already in 2019 Micha and Fritz doubted in our Worried Kids format that this “Russian Bioshock” actually exists, and if that’s the case, that it’ll ship what the primary trailers promised.

But now Atomic Heart has been launched, and even when it would not provide every part the trailers promised (for instance, ray tracing help remains to be lacking), the game positively unfolds its strengths.

But these are misplaced an increasing number of in the middle of the game, as a result of Atomic Heart leaves lots of potential to the left.

At the identical time, Atomic Heart is on the heart of an issue. The Ukrainian Youtuber Harenko Even earlier than the discharge of Atomic Heart, the Ukrainian Youtuber Harenko accused Atomic Heart of spreading Russian propaganda and serving to to finance the warfare in opposition to Ukraine. The Deputy Minister for Digital Transformation of Ukraine lately underscored these allegations and called for a halt to sales.

So there’s so much to speak about at Aomic Heart. And that is what we do: In the podcast Micha grabs the 2 check writers from Pointmmo and GamePro, André Baumgartner and Tobias Veltin to speak to them first concerning the high quality of the game after which concerning the accusations round it.

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In phrases of story, environment and gameplay, comparisons with Bioshock naturally counsel themselves. Micha, for instance, likes the story premise of Atomic Heart, as a result of it exaggerates a major pattern from the Soviet Union to the intense and eventually lets it tip over right into a nightmare. However, the game would not make sufficient out of this premise, and the story stays predictable.

We even have reward for the final environment and the event group’s consideration to element, however criticism for the boring fundamental character and the pressured humor. And oh, the “open world”. Of course, Atomic Heart shouldn’t be an open-world game, nor ought to it’s – however there’s an overworld that connects the areas.

And it is likely one of the worst worlds Micha ever needed to run by means of. Yes, run. Because combating is not sensible.

We then flip our consideration to the controversy and accusations in opposition to Mundfish. We recap what we all know to date concerning the financing of the game, and talk about how communism and particularly the Soviet Union are portrayed in Atomic Heart. That’s the place our opinions differ fairly a bit…

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