ATOMIC HEART
Pre-order the stunning BioShock-like shooter
Robotic worms spin and circle overhead, a giant mutated plant threatens to turn us into mulch, and a cutscene shows a large portrait of Russian writer Chekhov floating about the remnants of a forest community. Mundfish’s Atomic Heart looks surreal and very, very good.
Though the developer has been silent for some time after missing the game’s late 2019 release date, pre-orders for the title have now opened on the official website (mundfish.com). The PS4 bundles offer everything from early access to the game to exclusive ‘Founders’ items so everyone knows how much you love it.
With pre-orders now live, rumours are circulating that Atomic Heart will release as early as April.
Why are we so excited? Because there’s a BioShock-shaped hole in our life that Atomic Heart’s blend of shooting, puzzling, and narrative-led exploration can fill.
MACHINE THINKING
The recent gameplay demo released to coincide with the pre-order offers reveals a game happy to play with physics and our sense of reality.
Set inside an abandoned science facility in an alternate Soviet Union, there’s more than psychotic machines lurking in the game’s overgrown and crumbling corridors. One sequence reveals how water is collagulating in the air, forming tunnels we can swim down. There are strong hints of Valve’s iconic Half-Life 2 in here too as you need to solve physics-based puzzles to progress. Sign up, comrade! Join us in Mundfish’s brave new world.
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THERE ARE STRONG HINTS OF VALVE’S ICONIC HALF-LIFE 2 IN HERE TOO.