Soviet shooter Atomic Heart will be released on February 21 for PC, PS and Xbox – Games – News

Atomic Heart, an action-adventure RPG set in an alternate Soviet Union in the 1950s, will be released on February 21 next year. It is a violent game where the player has to compete against a network made up of many robots.

Atomic Heart it can perhaps be described as a retro-futuristic adventure game where a lot of shooting and fighting is required and where role-playing elements are also present. The game takes place in an alternate reality: the Soviet Union of 1955. Advanced robots defeated the Germans in 1941. In part due to the many casualties of the war, automation accounts for much of the workforce required. A technical revolution has already taken place; Internet already exists Robots gradually begin to rebel and are distributed in a coordinated way via a neural network. As a player, you take on the role of an unstable KGB agent who must investigate a factory that has been closed due to an accident. It is important to survive here and to contain the consequences of the accident.

The trailer is a succession of fast and short action scenes with a lot of violence. These include mutated scientists, masked Soviet soldiers, and hostile robots. The player has to fight a lot, with melee and firearms available, as well as superhuman abilities coming from the special combat glove. According to Russian developer Mundfish, anything can be used as a weapon and you need to pay close attention to the environment and what the enemies do. Partly for this reason, every fight will be different, according to the study. Weapons are also upgradeable and hacking allows the player to enter structures undetected. The latter is not an unnecessary luxury; if you are discovered above or below ground, reinforcements will come from a nearby factory.

Atomic Heart was announced in 2018 and appears to have been inspired by games such as those in the Wolfenstein, BioShock and Stalker series. The game is displayed Steam is in the Windows Store and comes out on PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles.