For every cynical Party Apparatchik in the Eastern Bloc, there were genuine believers in the promises of socialism, that the sacrifices and secret police of the present would give way to a glittering future of peace, plenty, and freedom. The developers of Mundfish, by designing the hi-tech game environments of Atomic Heart, have tried to tap into those 20th century hopes for a working socialist future, while not glossing over the corruption and wretched governance endemic in the real-world Soviet system. Behind the veneer of brazen propaganda, politicians and business magnates in the West broke into cold sweats over the possibility of Communist infiltrations and uprisings. Related: Stalker Franchise History Explained (& What It Means For STALKER 2)īack during the height of the Cold War, though, the outcome of the ideological battle between the U.S.A.
From a present perspective, it's easy to assume this outcome was a historical inevitability. Source: Mundfish, Popular Science, Aeon, The Atlantic, Timeline, Atomic HeritageĪtomic Heart is planned for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and is expected to release in 2020.The Cold War ended with the 'victory' of the United States and the fall of the Soviet Union, which collapsed under a combination of economic mismanagement, the drain of wars and disasters like Chernobyl, and the mass uprisings against an oppressive one-party state unwilling to reform. Next: Russia Wins The Space Race In Apple TV+'s For All Mankind Trailer The footage and stills of Atomic Heart paint a similar picture of a technologically advanced, yet culturally stagnant society for all the killer robots, computer networks, and floating water, Facility 3826 is still festooned with crimson banners and propaganda posters of chisel-jawed workers. The unique visuals of Atomic Heart poke fun at the way people in the long-gone Soviet Union used to see the future but they also act as a warning for modern viewers, a reminder of the horrors that can be unleashed when science is distorted by ideology and unbound by morality. The pre-apocalyptic America players see at the start of Fallout 4 is a future of sleek rayguns, robot butlers, and nuclear cars, shackled to a society that seems stuck, Pleasantville-style, in the 1950s.
Developer updates and gameplay footage paint a picture of a USSR with space travel, advanced robots, and internet networks, along with mutated abominations, a protagonist with psychokinetic powers, and other dangers unleashed by scientists with large budgets and no accountability.
The setting of Atomic Heart,is an alternate world in which both real and fringe Soviet science bore fruit. Witness the crackpot agricultural theories of Lysenko, the University of Leningrad's research into psychic powers, and the clunky T-26 robot tanks used in the Soviet Union's war with Finland. Other times, it meant that charismatic cranks with pseudo-scientific theories or inventions were given budgets far larger than they deserved. Sometimes, this hamstrung genuine technological innovations – like computer scientist Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov's attempt to create the Internet thirty years early. They used their sensor to measure the magnetic fields created. Led by Takayuki Iwasaki at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the team based its device on the fluorescence of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamonds.
Scientific and technological progress in the USSR was often at the mercy of secret police and paranoid Party bureaucrats more concerned with ideology than reality. A diamond-based sensor that maps out the subtle electrical currents inside the heart has been developed by researchers in Japan.
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