![]() ![]() Peace & Love to everybody” PR statement to avoid any potential association with the invasion of Ukraine. As the trailers gained popularity, they issued a very milquetoast “We don’t comment on politics. In short, though I recommend giving it a watch, Harenko claims that, in contrast to previous reporting, the company only began to present itself as an international company in 2022, erasing any visible connection to its Russian roots and its original HQs in Moscow. The debate over the game started after an Ukrainian YouTuber, Harenko, published “Please, Don’t Buy Atomic Heart,” a video denouncing both the links of the studio to Russian state apparatus and the content itself with its apparent glorification of the USSR and its standard videogame sexism. ![]() Mundfish, the studio behind Atomic Heart, is Russian, but currently headquartered in Cyprus. Bring in the shell-shocked Lisa Simpson gif again! But the controversy has been, as it usually is with videogames, about politics. The reviews have been good to middling, it seems to be an OK if not generic game, the mid-century Soviet aesthetics being the standout element. Also, with 100% more sexy femme androids. Beat for beat, the narrative is almost an exact copy of Bioshock but set in a Communist regime instead of a Libertarian one. It’s not just the mechanics, the mid-century sci-fi aesthetics, and being in a collapsing totalitarian regime. The storyline is… well, I don’t wanna sound pedantic, but it’s Bioshock. The game is set in a retrofuturistic vision of Soviet Russia, set in an alternate history where the USSR made enormous technological strides in robotics, energy, and computing.
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