Atomic Heart
The approaching FPS gameAtomic Hearthas often been compared to theFalloutseries . There ’s a sound reason for that : just as theFalloutseries satirizes the high-handed attitude mid - century Americans had towards radiation and atomic major power , Atomic Heart’svisuals , options , and unsettling enemiesdraw hard from the bombastic and sometimes horrifying scientific endeavors that ingest place in enquiry labs and " science cities " on the other side of the Iron Curtain .
Between the secret constabulary , purging , famines , wars , and economic stagnation , there were citizens of the Soviet Union who were genuinely affirmative about the future of communism , with scientists and author dream up scientifically advanced utopias that would make the Federation ofStar Trekjealous . The developers of Mundfish Studios , many of whom grew up in former Warsaw Pact countries , have refer several Greco-Roman Soviet - geological era science fabrication stories as source of inspiration for the retro - future ofAtomic Heart .
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Creators like Stanislaw Lem , the Polish writer ofSolaris , and the Strugatsky brothers , whose novelRoadside Picnicinspired theSTALKERfilm andS.T.A.L.K.E.R.video games , seem to have in particular influenced the visuals ofAtomic Heart . The eerie environments ofAtomic Heart ’s Facility 3826 seem to pay up court to the Zone seen inRoadside Picnic , an abandoned domain filled with baneful , reality - warp anomalies . The float clumps of exculpated liquidity in the biz also contain a resemblance to the blueish water supply on the alien world ofSolaris , a fluid that resist all known physics . For all the fictional homages , though , the biggest influences onAtomic Heartare the real - spirit scientific excesses that took station in the Soviet Union of old .
Top Secret Science Cities
The premise ofAtomic Heartrevolves around a KGB agentive role send off to investigate Facility 3826 , a top - secret internet of metropolis - sized enquiry center and factory scattered across an alternative - account Soviet Union . The perils players bump in the biz – orca robot , bio - weapon system , snake god – are fantastical , but the concept of hidden research cities is very much genuine . Naukograds – literally “ Science Cities ” – were closed communities obscure from the world at bombastic , built by Gulag labour and for good staffed with scientist working on nuclear applied science , biological war , spaceflight , and other military pursuits . Many of these fold city are still running today under the current Russian Federation , sealed away from the outside existence …
Psychics, Sputniks, and Robo-Tanks
Scientific and technical progress in the USSR was often at the clemency of secret police force and paranoid Party bureaucrats more concerned with ideology than reality . Sometimes , this hamstring genuine technical innovations – like computer scientist Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov ’s attempt to create the net thirty years early .
Other time , it signify that charismatic cranks with pseudo - scientific theories or inventions were hold budgets far larger than they deserved . Witness the crackpot agrarian theories of Lysenko , the University of Leningrad ’s research into psychic powers , and the clunky T-26 automaton tanks used in the Soviet Union ’s war with Finland . The setting ofAtomic Heart , is an alternate populace in which both genuine and fringe Soviet scientific discipline eager fruit . Developer update and gameplay footage paint a picture of a USSR with space travel , advanced robots , and net internet , along with mutated abominations , a protagonist with psychokinetic power , and other dangers unleashed by scientist with gravid budgets and no accountability .
The pre - revelatory America players seeat the start ofFallout 4is a futurity of satiny rayguns , golem Samuel Butler , and atomic cars , shackled to a society that seems stuck , Pleasantville - style , in the 1950s . The footage and still ofAtomic Heartpaint a similar exposure of a technologically advanced , yet culturally stagnant guild ; for all the sea wolf robots , computer networks , and float water , Facility 3826 is still festoon with reddish banners and propaganda posters of chisel - have words worker . The unique visuals ofAtomic Heartpoke fun at the manner people in the long - gone Soviet Union used to see the future but they also act as a warning for modern spectator , a monitor of the horror that can be unleashed when skill is distorted by political orientation and unbound by ethics .
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rootage : Mundfish , Popular Science , Aeon , The Atlantic , Timeline , Atomic Heritage
Atomic Heartis planned for PC , PlayStation 4 , and Xbox One , and is expect to release in 2020 .
