![]() ![]() Robots featured heavily in Soviet science fiction, with film being particularly guilty of robophilia. In an interview with developer Mindfish’s CEO Robert Bagratuni, it’s made clear that Atomic Heart was mostly inspired by these Soviet sci-fi authors like the Strugatsky brother s and Stanisaw Lem. Naturally, this ended up making Soviet children want a robot friend – and writers want to exploit them. Space travel was everywhere in the USSR, like Pokemon in the 90s, going so far as to become the “unofficial religion”of the Union. This fascination with the stars pre-dates even the Russian Revolution: Pre-science fiction works about the vast reaches of space were popular in Imperial Russia. The Space Race led to a cultural fascination with space travel that spanned the world, and the Bolsheviks were no exception. For example, Skrunda-1 in Latvia remains as empty as Soviet TV programming. Around 41 of them remain populated today, now with the official term ‘Naukograd’. ![]() Even after the Soviet Union packed in it in 1991, these cities remained tightly controlled. The second was for cities you really couldn’t get in or out of. Conditions in these cities varied in Arzamas-16 (now Sarov), residents enjoyed higher wages and constant supplies of goods even as the USSR’s economy crumbled in the late 1980s.Ĭhelyabinsk-40 (later 65) became one of the most contaminated places on Earth, and is the birthplace of the third-largest nuclear accidentof all time. There were two ‘classes’ of these shut-off parts of the world: One was for cities you couldn’t get in or out of. Entire cities were built purely for research purposes throughout the 20 th century, mostly for nuclear technology and military bases. Details of the game remain unknown, but the variety of environments shown off implies that we’ll get to go on a rollicking adventure through scientific Hell-houses and robot paradises.Įlaborate research facilities are nothing new, but the Soviets went one step beyond. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, you can check it out at the bottom of the article. Atomic Heart is like a mix between Bioshock and S.T.A.L.K.E.R, promising tight close-quarters combat and trippy visuals. You play as a special agent, sent to the facility to find out why it’s gone dark. 3826 – a laboratory of horrors run by the yet-to-be-revealed Dr. I’m back in the U.S.S.RĪtomic Heart takes part during the ‘high noon’ of an alternate-history Soviet Union, in the top-secret Facility no. The game’s become one of my more anticipated titles simply because of this commitment to Socialist secrecy, but did you know that some of its more bizarre features are based on partial fact? So break out that Pepsi you bought with diesel submarine s, and get ready to ‘learn’ the (real) history behind the (fictional) Facility no. One of the most iconic video games ever made, Tetris, was designed by a Soviet computer engineer in 1984.Ītomic Heart, however, seeks to tap into the Communist Bloc’s history with robots, secret bases, and goddamn zombies, by way of beating them to death with improvised instruments. Soviet-made weapons like the AK-47 assault rifle and the T-34 medium tank remain in use throughout the world for their low cost and relative reliability. Communism remains a system of government employed by nations – one of which is a potential superpower. Cassette cartridges and various modifications will help you use the environment to your advantage and exploit enemy vulnerabilities.The Soviet Union collapsed nearly three decades ago, yet its legacy remains with us today. Use pieces and components with the “Chaika 3.0” device to create more than 30 types of melee weapons and firearms. If you are noticed either above or under the ground, the reinforcements from the nearest factory will come to kill you. Can you survive?Ī neural network named “Kollektiv” unifies ground-based and flying robots alike into a single hivemind. ![]() Uncover soviet secrets! But know that death hides in every corner. Find out more about the employees and their ways of life and work. Turn everything into a weapon: environment, objects, your own body, and even enemies themselves! Every fight will be different from the last.Įxplore huge research facilities and test sites. Use the varied arsenal of arms and special abilities of your polymer glove. Study the behavior of your enemies and observe how they relate to each other. You are Major P-3 and your task is to eliminate the consequences of a large-scale accident and prevent the leakage of classified information threatening to destroy the whole world. Atomic Heart is a first-person shooter developed and published by Mundfish.Ī global system failure happens at the Soviet Facility №3826 that leads machinery to rebel against the people.
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