There you are, then. Sparkly.
Developers Mundfish dropped the trailer during Nvidia’s CES 2023 showcase, where they also announced DLSS 3 support for 33 upcoming games, including Atomic Heart. That should mean a nice framerate boost for anyone with an RTX graphics card.
It’s always hard to tell how a game will play until its beneath your fingers, but Atomic Heart looks like a hell of a romp. It’s set in a world where the Soviet Union thrived thanks to newfangled “polymer injections”, which is as good an excuse as any to let you blast lightning out of your hands and chuck enemies about with telekinesis. It all adds up to an intriguing combination of unprecedentedly-Russian aesthetics with BioShock-like plasmid powers. I want to spray weird white goop at robots and I’m not ashamed to say so.
Hardswaremen James interviewed Mundfish last year, when they said they’re aspiring to “reinvent as many aspects of game design as possible” in the hopes of not creating a BioShock clone. I get the impression they don’t like people saying BioShock as much as they do when they look at Atomic Heart, but come on, it’s got weird arm powers and an outlandish, ostensibly-utopian floating city.
We’ll get to admire more ray-traced robots for ourselves real soon, when Atomic Heart comes out on February 21st.
