Atomic Heart: A Promising Game Hindered by Bloat and Frustration

Atomic Heart Review

Atomic Heart is a game with a promising story and unique setting, but it ultimately falls short due to excessive bloat. While the game features interesting design elements and a strong player character, it stretches out its best and worst parts until nothing good remains.

The game's story follows Major Sergei Nechaev, also known as P-3, a special assignments officer assigned to assist USSR hero Dmitry Sechenov with the launch of Kollective 2.0. P-3 wears an AI-controlled glove named Charles that unlocks special abilities and gives him someone to talk to throughout the game. However, the story is muddled by confusing dialogue and constantly shifting allegiances, leaving players feeling unsure about what to believe.

Atomic Heart's gameplay features survival and stealth elements, an open world sandbox, and a wide variety of weapons and combat abilities. However, the game's attempts to do too much lead to an equal amount of filler. Activities like finding new weapon blueprints and training grounds are infrequent and quickly become uninteresting. The combat, while featuring a variety of guns, abilities, and enemies, lacks impact and feels repetitive. Boss encounters all use the same abilities and reward the same style of combat, making them feel like carbon copies of each other.

Despite its shortcomings, Atomic Heart has some solid bones and unique design elements that make it worth playing.

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Taken on: February 20, 2023

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