Focus Home Interactive Atomic Heart (PlayStation 5)

Beautiful looking FPS with fun combat and puzzles with a cool story all set in a robot filled world.

Atomic Heart is one of this year's biggest surprises, and if you like games like the first Bioshock you should definitely give this one a go.The story is pretty good, but a bit predictable at times. However, the real star of the show here is the game's lore which you discover by reading through people's emails, and by listening to audio logs which you will find scattered throughout the world.The graphics, art style, music are all absolutely amazing. The game is oozing personality, and is an absolute treat to look at and listen to. But I'm gonna be honest and admit that I did hate the protagonist's cringy attitude and catchphrase, which you will probably too, but I decided to stick with it and he ended up growing on me. At one point the game explains everything about why the dude is like that, and I guess I decided to cut him some slack. He also does get a lot less annoying as the story progresses, so that helps. Some people say the writing is bad, but that's like saying that King Joffrey from GoT is a case of bad writing because everyone hated his guts. Maybe not every single character in a videogame is supposed to be likeable right off the bat.To get this out of the way, the game is not "pro Russian propaganda", and any propaganda featured in the game is actually only relevant in the context of the game's world and story, and is used for world building purposes, similar to how a game like Wolfenstein isn't pro Nazi propaganda.The gameplay is really solid, but Atomic Heart is one of those games that intentionally nerf the player's default skills to begin with. To give you an example, at the start of the game you unlock a dash mechanic that you're supposed to use to dodge incoming attacks, but the default version of it has no iframes, so you're going to dodge and still get hit half of the times, until you upgrade the ability and unlock iframes. This is similar to how the dodge feels useless at the start of the game in Lies of P. Weird design choice, yes, but trust me, it does get a lot better.Throughout the game you will be collecting resources/materials used to craft weapons, weapon upgrades, consumables and ammo, and to upgrade your abilities. The game has a bunch of different weapons, both melee and ranged, and the protagonist's glove can also use abilities like electrocute, freeze or mass telekinesis, similar to the plasmids in Bioshock, which means that you can play the game however you like.For example, I played using mainly the AK47, Shotgun, chain electrocute to stun groups of enemies and lower their defense, and mass tk which I was using to lift groups of enemies up into the air, then slam them on the ground. But you can freeze them, spray them with polymer gel and set them on fire with incendiary ammo, blow them up with the rocket launcher, disintegrate them with the railgun, get the shield ability and destroy them with melee weapons. How you play is up to you.After the first few hours of the game you're put in what people have called an "open world", but honestly, that's not a very accurate description of what it is. It's basically a larger, and more open area that you can freely explore between the game's story missions, but it's also walled off with these laser barriers from the rest of the island, which makes it very linear, as it limits you to only a few locations that you can actually check out.Whenever you check your map, you can actually see the entire island with all sorts of points of interest, so for a while I thought the laser barriers would disappear as I progress through the story, and the island would open up for me to explore, but that only happened once or twice when the game wanted to guide me down this very specific linear path. This almost makes me think that the devs had initially planned for the entire island to be explorable, but had to cut it out of the final game for some reason.I platinumed the game and did 100% of the DLC as well, which took me about 60h in total. I played both the campaign and the dlc on the hardest difficulty setting, which was fairly challenging at first, but got progressively easier later on. The DLC was a lot more challenging, and when I finally started getting comfortable with the new weapons, abilities and enemies, it ended, so that was a bit disappointing.I saw some people complaining about the enemies being bullet sponges, but I never felt that way. I would 1 shot most of the weaker enemies with a shotgun blast to the face, but some of the larger/stronger enemies will take more shots. For comparison, enemies take far more shots to kill in any of the Fallout games, The Division or even FF16 (despite there being a stagger mechanic).There's also a new game plus that's locked into the hardest difficulty level, and that gives every enemy in the game a different coloured aura with a specific buff. There's a bunch of different ones, 6-8 in total I think, and each colour has a different effect, like enemies with a red aura will move faster, enemies with a purple aura don't take damage from abilities, orange aura only takes damage from melee weapons etc.Atomic Heart is a flawed game, there's no doubt about it, but it's also a good, fairly challenging and really fun videogame to experience. Objectively, the game is an 8/10, but for me personally it's a solid 9/10, and I can confidently say that I enjoyed it a lot more than Bioshock Infinite or Prey 2017 (which I found dull and not a very good immersive sim). And I hope there's gonna be a sequel.Try it out for yourself. It's a really good time.

Buen juego para la pley título recomendable y entretenido

Arrivato in tempi brevi imballato nuovo, ho voluto acquistarlo ma ancora devo giocarci...per molti è stato un bel gioco per altri no..ero curioso...

It’s a good game if you want a Soviet Like Terminator type game but in a Cold War state. It’s pretty good story, great Graphics, around 90+ Gigs, but it’s a pretty decent game for a role playing game.