In fact, if you're angling for a nice, pithy summary so you can go back to your no-doubt terribly important professional life you certainly aren't procrastinating from right now, Atomic Heart is Russian bootleg knockoff BioShock. The game's politics are a little hard to pin down, to be honest, since the characters keep having these long philosophical arguments over the flaws in the current regime and the nature of free will, although I don't know if that's out of a genuine desire to explore political philosophy or just to complete the comparison to BioShock. So let's crack off with this assuredly completely politics-free review.Ītomic Heart is set in an alternative mid-20th century where Russia is the greatest and most powerful country ever, and communism rules and capitalism drools- Well, fucking so much for that! And this isn't even going into how the plot centers around an upcoming plan to link everyone's minds in a sort of science-fiction super-communism, and obviously, things go awry when all the murdering starts, but I don't think any of it was communism's fault. Well, perhaps not there are plenty of people in Russia who are just as disappointed by the sagginess of Putin's man-tits as anyone else, and assuming a game has some political bent just because it comes from Russia would be like criticizing Tomb Raider for refusing to address the British government's complicity in Irish sectarian violence. First, we had to take a stance on systemic transphobia because we wanted to play the twatty wizard game for twatty wizards, and now we're playing a game from Russia, so I guess we have to make clear our stance on the war in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin's saggy man-tits. Things have gotten awfully political lately around this silly computer game review show. This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Atomic Heart.
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