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Atomic Heart - Half Life with Russian Robot Clowns

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4 hours ago, Len said:

Getting Half Life, Serious Sam and god knows how many other vibes from that. Crazy business, high hopes.


Yeah. This one in particular felt like a sequel to Bioshock.

 

Still looks very intriguing though!

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1 hour ago, Quest said:

 

Looks great, although I felt the player feedback was lacking a bit. I couldn’t work out how they got the robot to reveal its weak points. Was it through attacking it or does it just happen after a set period of time? Oh, and the jump looked a bit puny.

 

Other than that though, it looks amazing. Really well art directed. I can’t wait to give it go.

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14 minutes ago, jonamok said:

NOMEP

 

The insta cut to black screen on death, while logical, just feels awkward. Otherwise looks good, and the sound of that thing is great.

Those little 2D animations that show how you’ve died on the death screen are great though. Little touches like that make it feel like a Labour of love.

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2 hours ago, JoeK said:

Well, I'm still not sure if the game will be any cop, but I'll pick it up because it just looks so damn pretty...

 

 

 

Genuinely looks amazing. 

 

If a bigger developer was making this then everyone would be talking about it. 

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8 hours ago, JoeK said:

Well, I'm still not sure if the game will be any cop, but I'll pick it up because it just looks so damn pretty...

It's on game pass day one, so no need to spend money to check it out :)

 

This looks great so far and I hope it's indeed a 7/10 or higher game like @Timmosaid. We used to get fun story-driven single player FPS games like this all the time - from FEAR to BioShock to Singularity to Bulletstorm to Metro... Fun solid action romps.

 

Nowadays it's mostly either a live gaas game, and/or a token add-on to the multiplayer as the real star of the show, and/or CoD influenced standard military fare. Until the next Metro appears this will hopefully be a solid and inventive fun experience.

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It appears I was wrong, this is about to be released, and on GamePass as well.

 

Although there's a little bit of controversy brewing which I think was going to be inevitable.

 

https://www.gamesradar.com/atomic-heart-dev-facing-backlash-on-statement-relating-to-russo-ukraine-war/

 

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Atomic Heart developer Mundfish is facing backlash over a statement on its stance on the Russo-Ukraine war.

Earlier today on January 16, Mundfish published several tweets from its official Twitter account. Follow-up tweets to the one below state that Mundfish does "not comment on politics or religion," and that the developer is "a global team focused on getting Atomic Heart into the hands of gamers everywhere."
"We do not, and will not, condone contributors or spammers with offensive, hateful, discriminatory, violent, or threatening language or content," the tweets from Mundfish conclude. Now, the tweets from the Atomic Heart developer are facing backlash from Twitter users, such as Remedy Entertainment developer Sergey Mohov just below, criticizing the studio for refusing to name the Russo-Ukraine war in its statement.

 

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As Mohov further points out in a follow-up tweet, the protagonist of Atomic Heart is a KGB agent in the USSR of the future, set in an alternate timeline where Russia outright defeated Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Mohov writes that for developer Atomic Heart to play the "non-political" card against a video game backdrop of this nature is nonsensical. 

At the heart of the discussion around Mundfish though, is the matter of whether or not the studio has accepted funds from the Russian government in development of Atomic Heart. This is a question that's been on the lips of many Twitter users over the past months, and has partially led to today's statements from Mundfish, but it's one that the developer has never explicitly commented on. While Mundfish's headquarters are in Cyprus, the company is Russian, and is understood to be linked to companies that have received sanctions as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.

 

Is this going to affect sales? Responses to the tweets in question suggest not.

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I hope it doesn't affect sales. I just want the game to be judged on how it actually is as a game - and I'm still not entirely certain how it'll fare in that respect. I think it'd be a very poor state of affairs when everyone in a country gets tarred with the same brush, and seeing as I'm not aware that all the enemies you fight are actually robots from Ukraine I'll happily let the game speak for itself. 

 

 

 

 

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If I were a Russian game developer, I'd probably think twice before making an overtly political statement around the release of a game I was working on. It's all well and good expecting people to do the right thing, but I'd also not expect people to put themselves and their families at risk.

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The developers are still based in Russia, correct? And people loudly and publicly criticising the government don't tend to fare too well, so I don't expect every Russian to come out and denounce the war where there is a credible threat to their safety.

 

I think it speaks somewhat to the privilege of those not living in Russia and the Ukraine to be making any kind of deal out of this.

 

As for taking Russian government grants, so what? I'd wager that process is so far removed from those wanting to wage war as to be inconsequential. It'd be like people criticising every grant awarded when Blair was taking the Uk into an illegal war as being tainted in some way.

 

Unless the devs came out and praised 'mother Russia' or something, then I think this is an unfair story to be running. 

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The developers are fucked either way here. They either don’t say anything and get criticised or do say something and get into a lot of trouble with the Russian government dictatorship if they do, even more so if they’ve been taking their cash.

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It's looking really good. 

 

Although the first thing I'll be doing is changing all the voices over to russian, because the idea of all these american accents in an altogether foreign environment seems right out of place.

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1 hour ago, MansizeRooster said:

If there's even a fleeting chance that a single penny from a sale of this game ends up in the Russian government's hands, then I'm going nowhere near this.

I think it’s on gamepass?

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