It’s been some time since anybody has taken a strong shot at recapturing that authentic Bioshock spark. Atomic Heart, an upcoming ‘adventure FPS’ from Moscow-based studio Mundfish is perhaps in with an opportunity. Within, an elegantly lower trailer that includes at the very least 4 distinct manufacturers of illicit super-science, rampaging robots, undead clowns and a horse made out of blood-tentacles.
Set in an alternate earth, Atomic Heart places you within the footwear of a authorities agent, despatched in solo to research simply what has gone fallacious at a Soviet analysis facility. The reply, if the trailer under and System/Bioshock-standard cliche is something to go by, is all the pieces. Violence ensues. So a lot that even the blood doesn’t know what to do – a few of it even appears to be pooling on the ceilings.
Some gorgeous structure, excitingly off-beat robotic designs, and all method of bizarre experiments gone awry. Even the peek we get at a boss battle in opposition to a bulbous mine-spewing droid seems to be enjoyable, and charmingly animated as well because the machine lands head-first from a soar, legs spinning within the air above it. The peek on the weapon-crafting system that means that you can go so far as customising the decals in your weapons additionally has me intrigued.
While the trailer itself is spectacular, the blurb on the Steam web page for the sport and on the developer’s own site does have a bit of little bit of second-language twang to it – not incomprehensible by any means, however you may virtually hear the thick Russian accent behind the English textual content. Hopefully a lure that the sport itself manages to keep away from falling into.
Mundfish aren’t fairly able to slap a launch date (outdoors of ‘2018 listed on its Steam page‘) on Atomic Heart fairly but, however space-goggle spinoff Soviet Luna Park VR is due out someday this month. It seems to be like a considerably sillier co-op journey by the world of Atomic Heart, although no much less blood-drenched.
