Atomic Heart Review: Flawed But Full of Heart

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Күн бұрын

Atomic Heart is a fascinating game, yet some modern design trends weigh it down.
For a long time, I wasn't sure Atomic Heart was real. It seemed like all smoke and mirrors, and various gameplay demonstrations looked lacking. Stories of a messy development didn't help.
Well, I was proven wrong. Atomic Heart is very much real, and it's fantastic. Atomic Heart very much fills that Bioshock-shaped hole that's existed for the last decade. Russian Bioshock is the easiest way to describe Atomic Heart, but there's much more to it. The worldbuilding and art direction of Atomic Heart are second to none - standing out in a sea of sequels, reboots, and remakes.
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The combat offers a wide variety of tools to mix and match. Atomic Heart is a blast when it's firing on all cylinders and you fall into a groove. I wasn't sure about the open-world portions at first, but they did win me over with the sheer chaos that could occur during these sections.
As great as it is, Atomic Heart does fall victim to several trends that have plagued modern large-budget titles. The excessive amount of crafting items can feel like a chore. Atomic Heart contains one of the most egregious examples of too much banter and not giving the game room to breathe.
It's a shame some of these modern trends rear their ugly head because Atomic Heart is a standout in so many other ways.
I was able to put in 16 hours into Atomic Heart. About three quarters for the critical path, and a quarter for side content. I have not finished the game. The review guide says 20+ hours for the main campaign and 15+ hours for side content.
Thanks to the publisher Focus Entertainment for providing a review code for Atomic Heart a few days before the embargo lifting.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:40 Atomic Heart Presence and Intro
04:00 Worldbuilding of Atomic Heart
06:50 Combat in Atomic Heart
10:33 Level Design in Atomic Heart
12:16 Open World Sections
13:13 Stop Talking For Two Seconds
17:21 In Conclusion
Additional Footage:
• Forspoken
• Resident Evil Village
• System Shock Remake
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@BayaRae Жыл бұрын

The combat (and game in general) looks a lot smoother than I was expecting.

@darklegionnaire8304 Жыл бұрын

its not even on a series x it skips frames then i thought hell ill try it on my 4090 and guess what? runs the same. more than 3 enemies onscreen and hope you like early cod lobby lag. also turning is messed up, like you turn but it takes all your forward momentum away like its the most messed up turning in a game ever

@completelytransparent6320 Жыл бұрын

@@darklegionnaire8304 runs great for me and everyone else except you. the performance is a big talking point about this game as its so good especially inside. your a little lost

@waltuhgaming6523 Жыл бұрын

I feel like a lot of problems with the game couldve been fixed if they just made the game linear and not open world

@moosepotato4116 Жыл бұрын

Probably true for a lot of other games too.

@mravg79 Жыл бұрын

I’m playing it now, if it comes to mini open world (it is small and not very dense) I completed half of the polygons. I find it a decent change of pace move from place to place on the map, but the main quests are within the facility (corridor like style).

@SuperKratosgamer Жыл бұрын

@@moosepotato4116 yeah!

@christiangottsacker6932 6 ай бұрын

It is linear.. lol

@Usmvalor3 Жыл бұрын

Adding to the banter part. I don't wanna be cruel, but whoever overseen the game was in my eyes terrified we would get bored without dialog and would miss enviromental storytelling deets, if they would to swap some dialog with it. There's almost not a moment, for You to soak in the atmosphere which with all that yapping seems stuffy.

@oneeyeop-en6720 Жыл бұрын

Fanatic that nearly every reviewer thinks that Mike Gordon made the OST and ignores that most of the tracks arnt done by him, showing of "mike´s OST" with tracks done by Geoffplaysguitar. Quite reveling how well the marketing worked and how little reviewer seem to care, researching the Credits of tracks

@Bluehawk2008 Жыл бұрын

I definitely like the voice actor for the protagonist more in the Russian dub, he has a grit in his voice that matches the skeptical and sardonic dialogue better than the American actor, who sounds more like a flippant undergrad than an unsophisticated army officer.

@mightystu49 Жыл бұрын

There is a story reason for that, though.

@christiangottsacker6932 6 ай бұрын

Idk dudes a total boyscout and thats the point.

@knowtheplan472 Жыл бұрын

I wonder how far into development the game was when the twins were created. Were they there from the start or were they a last minute marketing thing?

@tartoflan Жыл бұрын

I smell marketing

@alessandroofthemediterranean Жыл бұрын

Marketing

@pepp418 Жыл бұрын

absolutely marketing, this kind of fetishisation of lesbians is almost solely done for marketing purposes.

@maxwellsantiago316 18 күн бұрын

Lesbian fetish? They're the same being. Both of them have half of a brain of one woman who was the lover of the main character.

@anton8064 Жыл бұрын

Thanks you for playing and showing this video in Russian. I'm not really good enough in Russian to understand it, but it feels authentic.

@steelbear2063 Жыл бұрын

Your name is Anton

@goldenindustries Жыл бұрын

Atomic heart got me into learning Russian, so its cool being able to recognize some of the phrases without looking at the subtitles. Their voice lines are delivered alot better than the english ones IMO

@anton8064 Жыл бұрын

@@steelbear2063 I am from Croatia. I used to be fluent in Russian,. They speak it a tad fast here, so I can't really follow without subtitles.

@anton8064 Жыл бұрын

@@goldenindustries I turned on Russian for Metro Exodus, but the voice acting (specifically for the dad general) was so bad I switched bad to English. There is a certain gruff macho male voice that is so prevalent in Russian dubbing and I hate it. Glad the acting is good in Atomic Heart.

@sebs-shenanigans Жыл бұрын

With Calistos and Protocols and such somewhat stabbing my feeble little heart, the fact that you and GmanLives seem to have a more of less positive outlook on the game is definitely a piece of good news!

@creamboyfuengshwei Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised how much SkillUP tore it a new asshole. That dude is swinging like a pendulum

@jarlwhiterun7478 Жыл бұрын

More of less?

@Andriej69 Жыл бұрын

I'm genuinely surprised Gman has a different opinion than Skillup, either they paid only one of them, or Shillman was honest for once

@sebs-shenanigans Жыл бұрын

@@Andriej69 I do not quite follow, who this Shillman is, but I wouldn't necessarily jump straight into "they paid someone off" territory for now, before giving Blyatomic Heart a whirl myself. .

@Andriej69 Жыл бұрын

Shillman is just another mickname for GmanLives

@sukamadik5983 Жыл бұрын

I see you are playing the game in Russian like a true Gamer.

@RoboGuy2K Жыл бұрын

I'd like to play it that way myself but the subtitles look way too small

@KingJadInfiniteHope Жыл бұрын

it’s not that serious, everyone isn’t gonna play the game like that.

@frozenvoltz6739 Жыл бұрын

Considering Russia is very homophobic this comment is spot on.

@sukamadik5983 Жыл бұрын

@@frozenvoltz6739 Yup, everyone knows gamers are homophobic. That's why rule 34 is full of Gay fanart from countless characters, many of which aren't even canonically gay people in their games. It's just that rampant homophobia from GAYMERS 😂👍.

@sukamadik5983 Жыл бұрын

@@KingJadInfiniteHope WOW 😳, an you call yourself a Gamer. I hope you sense my subtle sarcasm this time around.

@Hugo_Tate Жыл бұрын

Can't wait to hear Mick Gordon's work in this. Also really love how this game seems to wear its influences on its sleeve. great video

@mravg79 Жыл бұрын

While the music is good, it is sadly a bit out of place. Sure it completely changes the tone and hits from nowhere with boss fights or fights inside facilities in certain point of the story on its own nicely done. But I might argue that sometimes it feels out of place or what is even worse starts playing when it should not. Example a part which music starts enemies are attacking fits the fight, fight is over music either cuts or fades way I moved a few steps music start with full impact I look around there is no reason for it to be playing move a few more steps a single enemy which I deal with in quickly music is still playing which confuses the player as it should indicate more enemies but there is not a minute later it cuts. So on this technical level they could have done a bit better job. As for the full game I liked it thought it was good with ok story more or less till the end I did not like the ending(s) which overall reduced the final score for the the as a whole.

@keaton3889 Жыл бұрын

The little fallout tutorial videos are so well animated and never cease to make me smile when I watch them

@Mankey619 Жыл бұрын

Atomic Heart looks nice and it’s story is a bit okay,but hearing this game in its Russian language sounds way more fun than its English dub version.

@jakstheoneandonly Жыл бұрын

It is night and day

@amongersus2893 Жыл бұрын

I’m very excited to play this tonight! Cant wait to hear the soundtrack as well I never thought I’d see this game come to light since the first couple trailers years ago popped out.

@StephenYuan Жыл бұрын

I played a little bit of this the other day. Going to try more today. It seems to me that the developers probably would have liked to go more in the immersive sim direction but probably couldn't quite get there. It's not easy to accommodate that kind of openness and player choice. This game already had a pretty long, tortured development cycle. Many people thought it would just be vaporware, would never come out. I imagine downgrading and simplifying some of the immersive sim style features was necessary, something similar to what ended up happening to Bioshock Infinite. It downgraded to an Fps to finally get out of development hell.

@Sergito800 Жыл бұрын

this game has lots of personality, and i swear im not only refering to tall robot mommies!

@Chozo_Ghost Жыл бұрын

If the devs wanted to leave something out of the game, it should have been Denuvo, not the FOV slider >.> At least there's ways to change the FOV using third-party tools, but Denuvo is a different story.

@gabrielt4305 Жыл бұрын

I'm no fan of Denuvo. But pirating a big issue for PC gaming, specially medium and indie teams

@RMMLz Жыл бұрын

I've been binge watching your videos. Amazing content. Can we expect a "Shadow of Destiny" analysis?

@PedroElPolako Жыл бұрын

I won't play it but damn is the art style good and Russian really makes a huge difference.

@junpei6180 Жыл бұрын

Aren't expecting it to be the next stalker or pathologic,but cool if it's cool,the Russian style and writing is very underrated

@anthonykarnes6804 Жыл бұрын

Style is great, the writing....a little rough

@steelbear2063 Жыл бұрын

@@anthonykarnes6804 I mean for a Fallout-esque game it's pretty good

@zZiL341yRj736 Жыл бұрын

Damn didn't think this game would get release.

@filipbodnar2947 Жыл бұрын

That used to be my favorite episode of "Just you wait", when i was young, the one with all the rabbit athletes

@naryanr Жыл бұрын

Under the Mayo mentions a whole litany of issues, hardly any of which are mentioned here.

@HighFunctioningMedium Жыл бұрын

Yeah there's a lack of specifics in many places, a lot of vague value judgments

@coltonwilkie241 10 күн бұрын

Under The Mayo is the same guy that complained about Sifu not having an easy mode and then got mad when they added an easy mode and it was *gasp* very easy! And his Ultra Kill videos are a special kind of terrible same with his Trepang video. Forgive me for not giving his opinions much merit.

@johnwilliams919 Жыл бұрын

Psa. Turn off voice dialog for a more immersive experience. (I turn it back on for cut scenes.) The first person that can mod out the hamburger helper glove wins modder of the year.

@brainc0la-_- Жыл бұрын

"Hamburger helper glove" waooooow. Too accurate.

@mattmas6628 Жыл бұрын

Bro u getting review copies now ?? U leveled up my man.

@KanaevM Жыл бұрын

"Crispy critters", huh... Honestly, I have no idea how to translate the original swear. It's "ёбаные пироги" which literally means "fucking pies". Just a swear without much meaning. From what I've heard in this video - Russian voice over sounds rather bad to me (a Russian), which is sad.

@NaumRusomarov Жыл бұрын

I'm not gonna lie, I'm desperate for new immersive sim games. If it's even 20 percent of what's shown in the trailers, I'll buy it. Hopefully the balancing and other stuff gets fixed later.

@SimplexPL Жыл бұрын

According to other reviews, this game is not an immersive sim. It's a shooter.

@andreadangelo2299 Жыл бұрын

CTRL ALT EGO is out laready and it should be on sale right now This seems much more of an action rpg with some powers like bioshoock, but Peripeteia should be out this year

@buttertoast1146 Жыл бұрын

@@SimplexPL no shit

@SimplexPL Жыл бұрын

@@buttertoast1146 No shit that no shit. I was replying to the guy who said " I'm desperate for new immersive sim game".

@Kreuzrippengewoelbe Жыл бұрын

@@SimplexPL Name immersive sim that's not a shooter. Inb4 thief.

@steelcurtain187 Жыл бұрын

Great review my friend. You have me excited for sure

@6vitamin 5 ай бұрын

"Nu Pagody" or I guess "...just you wait" (iirc) is an old Soviet cartoon that I still remember and love. And although I only spent a couple of hours with the game (hoping for an RTX update) I made sure to rip the HD episodes from the game files.

@Hugo_Tate Жыл бұрын

16:30 granny Nukem

@chriscangelosi9438 Жыл бұрын

Does it come with a magnifying glass for the subtitles 🤣

@Chofyta Жыл бұрын

I watched a streaming and my problem is that combat is not that intense as it seems in the trailers and at the beggining u spend like 4 hours of gaming in the SAME PLACE, which rooms looks identical. BUT The Visual and Music are INSANE ♥, the "heavily inspired" on Bioshock is there of course, but somehow they managed to create their own identity around that.

@mightystu49 Жыл бұрын

The combat gets incredibly intense later in the game (or if you set off alarms a lot)

@cypherice3834 Жыл бұрын

I actually really liked the crafting inventory aspect. Played on hardest difficulty and this kept me on my toes and conservatives throughout. The more rare components really feel specialized and being able to dismantle weapons and get the resources back allow for varied options and made getting new blueprints feel very significant. Also feel it justifies the open world and bosses more because of the loot associated

@choi13a Жыл бұрын

Pumping out quality content

@mravg79 Жыл бұрын

Based on a few reviews with English voice over, and your. I have to say that p3 seems to be more tolerable and sounds a bit less like an a-hole in Russian. The things like voice tone, intonation can change how we perceive the character and while he still might be unpleasant person it might be less annoying. Also game have option to put any voice over and any subtitles on consoles. Yeah this should be standard, sadly many console games lock player to console language which is just stupid.

@ORLY911 Жыл бұрын

Will def get this sometime it looks fantastic. Been wanthing a Shock sorta experience for a while.

@lando8913 7 ай бұрын

Whats the 0451 thing about? I've seen that in a couple videos.

@bobothetransdimensionalhob2659 2 ай бұрын

its a reference to what i believe system shock where the first keycode is just 0451

@AniShikima Жыл бұрын

I'm very much looking forward to playing this game, pre-ordered a few weeks back.

@kingrobotnik6950 Жыл бұрын

So wait for sale or get immediately cuz I’ve seen some stuff and it looks fine but I don’t know if it’s support the company, $60 fine.

@planescaped Жыл бұрын

I am amazed this game was not a hot mess on release what with all the prerelease mutterings.

@coltonwilkie241 10 күн бұрын

The prerelease mutterings being a very small group of people complaining about nothing.

@slinky4452 Жыл бұрын

At least you’re playing in Russian so you don’t have to hear crispy critters every 5 seconds

@ghost5487 Жыл бұрын

is it just me or does the melee attacks remind me of dead island?

@MontyZander Жыл бұрын

The only review I need

@BoulderPunch Жыл бұрын

It's had a variety of opinions, others bring up good points. It's polarizing to say the least.

@InternetNinja100 Жыл бұрын

have you played prey 2017 ?

@LangLikesGames Жыл бұрын

Man 2023 is gonna be great for games.

@Treem0re Жыл бұрын

Ayyy I'm also still rocking a 1070 in 2023

@secretsecret6381 Жыл бұрын

I am russian and in my opinion russian voice acting comes off as over the top in a bad way tbh, borderline cringey. Hehe, bunny on the display of the lock on 17:26 is a Robo-bunny from "Well, Just You Wait!". He used to scare the shit out of kids.

@_Your_Wifes_Boyfriend Жыл бұрын

@@johnnycab8986 that's because humans perceive their native language in a different way.

@ForumBlackwolfdave Жыл бұрын

the english voiceover sounds like anime dub garbage so I would rather take a bad russian dub over it.

@bbbbbbb51 Жыл бұрын

That's sad. The short snippet he showed of the English voice acting gave me the same feelings.

@steelbear2063 Жыл бұрын

@@bbbbbbb51 We Russians talk in a relaxed manner, and our voice actors tend to "act" instead of just talking naturally in videogames. So that's why it comes as over the top for us. Because it kinda is. I mean it's not over the top exactly, but it's on its way. But it's also probably for censoring reasons, since guys like the protagonist would swear a lot normally, not to mention in their situation. And man, Russian curses are expansive and creative, probably more so that the Russian language proper. So they probably were scraping the barrel for something to replace that style of speech with, while still making the protagonist tough and believable

@secretsecret6381 Жыл бұрын

@@steelbear2063 yeah, you right. VA is not bad per se, just a bit intense for my liking. Funny to see english speaking users complaining about english VA while I perceive zero problems with it from my perspective.

@R3TR0J4N Жыл бұрын

its on gamepass and cost 35$ steam, its a eurojank, which are mostly gameplay-focused title story-wise with great world building. im getting the game since id be 2 years more for Judas to be released, and like titles amalgamating from bioshock, it's enough to scratch the itch.

@mightystu49 Жыл бұрын

Will you ever do a full review of the game after you have beaten it? I'm very curious how you feel about it's ending. I also think the game is best played in English first so you don't get lost in the story because a lot of the details would be easy to miss and wind up being quite important, but a second palythroughi n Russian for the vibes of it would be a good way to get the full soviet period vibes.

@sandman45 Жыл бұрын

"Bioshock hole that's existed for the last decade" someone missed out on Ghostwire

@15awesomehighfive Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! Kudos for playing in russian! I hate it when people play a game in english despite it being the worst option.

@SayMy_User_Name Жыл бұрын

What exactly is this game? Is it an immersive sim or not ?

@SourRobo8364 Жыл бұрын

I'm just here for the ballerina bot babes.

@djtoxicdhg Жыл бұрын

Only downside is no new game+ mode I hope 1 day thay add new game+ like how prey added new game plus down the line ans God of War

@bbbbbbb51 Жыл бұрын

Honestly I never take advantage of NG+ in games that have it. I always prefer the progression of abilities, but especially so when a single playthrough isn't enough to unlock everything like in Deus Ex or Sekiro. It makes the run & build take on a life of it's own instead of just having everything at my disposal. To each their own though.

@MikoYotsuya292 Жыл бұрын

Spinning attacks in FPS games are some of the rather annoying things that devs like to include

@R3TR0J4N Жыл бұрын

yea that seals the deal for me, when it comes to comparing the gameplay and openworld aspect to dyinglight

@nicolasriveros943 Жыл бұрын

For real, i remember one very annoying challenge in Dying Light where you had to chop un half 30 zombies under a Time límit and the spining attack was the most viable way to do it. It was really frustrating

@Circurose Жыл бұрын

Wow someone actually plays the game in Russian language.

@rometherevenant8749 Жыл бұрын

Thank gawd for Gamepass

@FinneousPJ1 Жыл бұрын

Love that you're using Russian audio - harašo

@kostazarikos3383 Жыл бұрын

Downloaded. Patiently waiting to play on gamepass

@NaumRusomarov Жыл бұрын

finished it. it's like bioshock but with robots and in a sci-fi version of the ussr. very good. they've put a lot of work in making the shooting and gunplay feel great, it's very smooth and satisfying. the puzzles are challenging but not too difficult, and they've fixed most of the bugs that were present on release date. i loved the talking dead people. i found it hilarious and in a few cases they were well incorporated in the game. I wish they'd spent more time on the story however. it's not particularly engaging. we know that the agent p3 and sechenov were supposed to be very close as sechenov saved his life, but the game mostly fumbled this. there were also scenes in the underground where the ussr had been doing experiments on people, and P3 is disgusted by it, but then he just quickly got out. I was expecting something more story wise, but nothing kinda happened, the visuals were there, but the story was missing. The open world also feels hard to explore. like you can't put a marker and follow a path to go from a to b. most of the rooms are also static, there's not a lot of things you can throw around or destory, which is weird because one of the powers you get lets you throw stuff at enemies, but there's nothing to throw.

@LynxNGB Жыл бұрын

Been thinking about buying this game

@InternetNinja100 Жыл бұрын

damn you know about Well, Just You Wait! your truly man of culture

@deviantarsenal Жыл бұрын

At least the robot desires me. I take what I can get.

@SamJonesS4mmyd48ull Жыл бұрын

I hated Major P3, more than I hated Ethan, and that's saying A LOT. Like, before I got done doing the prologue tour I was looking for a dialog adjustment option. Very fun game though

@noahmueller709 Жыл бұрын

I await your sons of the forest review

@DigiThorn Жыл бұрын

I’m actually enjoying the English translation because of how wack it can be 😂

@anthonykarnes6804 Жыл бұрын

It can be so bad, and bruh...the first encounter with the upgrading station...I wasn't ready

@MrAkehtam Жыл бұрын

Only play in russian, I want to be immersed.

@tpike32 Жыл бұрын

This game is actually real?? 😮

@main_stream_media_is_a_joke Жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing review. Thank you. This to me seems like a mix of Bioshock Infinite and Singularity. Good to know that it runs well on a Gtx 1070. The world building is utterly beautiful and twisted. The hyper sexualized twins and the over the top horny Nora...is just a bit too much. Like BioMutant, if the dev's patch in a reduced banter option....it would do a world of good for this amazing game.

@SuperKratosgamer Жыл бұрын

I have no problems with talkative characters, i think its way better than mute protagonists who shows no emotions.

@Greyowen8628 Жыл бұрын

In Russia you don't play game the game plays you

@danielwilliams3161 Жыл бұрын

I can't wait for a second game with this because I'm looking at the game or look in the gameplay and yes I'm sorry to say but it does literally just look like BioShock obviously yet it's how can I say that it looks like BioShock one where it's a bit all weird and finicky and brand new but it has detail and atmosphere of infinite haven't played infinite yet I'm still playing BioShock 2 but I've seen what infinite looks like and yeah it's a really dull dystopia and yeah I would want to play a time but obviously right now I'm playing returnal and I need to finish deathloop as well so yeah

@matrix255 Жыл бұрын

I recently finished the game and I didn't know you could use Russian voices with english subs... The english dub is quite bad I would've love to play the game like this :(

@vxsuperbadxvx5792 Жыл бұрын

Il defo be buying this awesome looking game 🙌

@thatmandan4488 Жыл бұрын

looks awesome

@dylhas1 Жыл бұрын

People constantly say the game is like bioshock and don’t expand on that thought. The game is nothing like bioshock?

@ultimateruffles5761 Жыл бұрын

To me it's very bioshock, from the polymer to the animations you get when you upgrade

@mmarc1n244 Жыл бұрын

Ta gra jest jak "ruski aparat do świecenia w dupie - nie świeci i nie mieści sie w dupie"

@FoNgThOnG Жыл бұрын

Probably put in about 6 hours and the game is pretty and fun. I will say that I wish the protag and the "glove" would talk less. It's reminding me too much of Forspoken with how the protag constantly shits on the "glove". The slow strafing annoys me from time to time also.

@ZEBRACOW13 Жыл бұрын

I see comments that it runs terribly on Series X and higher end PC’s….but it runs BEAUTIFULLY on Series S 60fps 1080p. I’m loving it! Certain to be a Cult Classic!

@dullhaus6536 Жыл бұрын

I’m really enjoying the game as well, I switched to the Russian audio dialogue because the line delivery from the protagonist’s actor was borderline intolerable for me. Like… why did they direct him to deliver every line like he was a 14 year old jock who just punched a hole in his parent’s drywall. I do the find the “crispy critters” phrase to be unintentionally hilarious though.

@lordnelsonmc.billionberg9166 Жыл бұрын

It was an totally epic game for me.

@yaboirichard591 Жыл бұрын

After finishing this game for me personally it’s a 6. Sucks ass that it’s not fun

@kvltslime2261 Жыл бұрын

imo the combat feels weightless. constantly hitting enemies who barely even flinch not to mention the constant backtracking to get some key or item just to progress makes this game feel dated and quite frankly a chore to play

@sukamadik5983 Жыл бұрын

The most important question is what do you rate the sexy robots on a scale from 1 to 10?

@mangamer5166 Жыл бұрын

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@007megaoof Жыл бұрын

@user-gj4dd9et7j Жыл бұрын

You are talking about those red robots?

@AuroraAce. Жыл бұрын

20/10

@JayPeaOrtiz Жыл бұрын

Hell yes, I haven't watched the video yet (obviously since it just came out) but I'm glad that you called it fantastic. Honestly, your review was one of the opinions I was most looking foward to listening (especially when it comes to Immersive sims and games of that style). Picking it up this weekend.

@Slop_Dogg Жыл бұрын

was interested but eventually this game just bored me. didn’t do anything very well tbh.

@donniedewitt9878 Жыл бұрын

I just wanna play for the unique aesthetic and hope the writing is semi decent

@ivanivanovitchivanovsky7123 Жыл бұрын

“Unique aesthetic” Translation: Big robot mommies

@donniedewitt9878 Жыл бұрын

@@ivanivanovitchivanovsky7123 the attractive bots are appreciated, hell they look more like women than most female npcs in recent games- but I genuinely meant the soviet futurism angle, like the parade in the opening

@ivanivanovitchivanovsky7123 Жыл бұрын

@@donniedewitt9878 I know, I’m just messing with you. Somewhat. The general aesthetic is pretty cool I agree. Fking love the ball bot boss. I might get the game if i can run it on my laptop.

@CondemnedGuy Жыл бұрын

"Euro-jank"?

@chase-rw9rl Жыл бұрын

Despite what a lot of reviewers are saying I feel like this is something special. Yes it has its flaws but the world they have brought to life is fantastical and intriguing. Only a little ways in and I can’t wait to have the time to dive back in and see what’s going to happen next. Anyone who is playing take your time with the game and take in all the environmental storytelling. Really hoping for a new game plus option soon.

@moosepotato4116 Жыл бұрын

I couldn't tolerate all the banter. It's endless. I ended up muting the dialogue because I just couldn't tolerate it. Especially because it's never funny or entertaining. The upgrade robot is so embarrassing that I physically cringed when I first heard it. Combat and movement felt incredibly sluggish and clunky. All the best parts of the game feel derivative. Yeah, I dunno about this one. I feel like calling it a Russian Bioshock is disingenuous. The two games are nowhere near, in any stretch of the imagination, on the same levels of quality. It's a pretty decent Gamepass title though.

@kizunadragon9 Жыл бұрын

omg the dialoge is so cringe especially the English voice overs. When a little old lady says "eat shit and die" thats when i turned the game off and refunded. I wanted Russian Bioshock... what i got was Russian Duke Nukem forever

@steelbear2063 Жыл бұрын

Translation issues (a lot of them). She didn't say eat shit and die in Russian.

@anthonykarnes6804 Жыл бұрын

The game needs english subtitles for Russian dub, also the main character is terribly unlikable...otherwise great game

@ffourteen2442 Жыл бұрын

Prey filled the bioshock hole in my heart

@2k7podge2k7 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this review I guess il be paying full price

@bobothetransdimensionalhob2659 2 ай бұрын

this game has some of the worse dlc i have ever experianced and one the least satisfying endings ive seen

@euphoricnicholas3487 Жыл бұрын

✌👽👍

@aleksapetrovic6519 Жыл бұрын

What bothers me is constant comparesson on Bioshock. I didn't like that game at all, in fact I consider it exceptionally bad. However, many said Dead Space, Half Life 2 and Wolfenstein: New Order and to some extend Dishonored are similar to System Shock which from what I understand Bioshock is something of a soft reboot of System Shock and I consider the games I listed as one of the best. So I am really puzzled what to think of it. Also fuck Denuvo, fucking malware is literally an argument for piracy.

@dongulio5539 Жыл бұрын

I have been waiting for this game since sophomore year of highschool, (im now a sophomore in uni) and I really want to play it, have another game in Russian like metro, but the game is funded by VK, a prominent Russian main news organization with close ties to the kremlin, so if you buy this, I guess you’re funding the Russian propaganda machine? Ion know, I just want to shoot funny Soviet robots

@steelbear2063 Жыл бұрын

Western Europe is still buying Russian resources, so I think you are fine if you just buy this one game. Also VK is not a news organization at all. It's a social network like Facebook, and Facebook outright spies on people on government's behalf, so I mean I guess funding your country's lies is better than funding my country's lies, but not by much

@AndRei-yc3ti Жыл бұрын

Well you probably played COD in high school? Did you know that had money from the US Department of Defense? You bought and played it and had no cares in the world about supporting the deaths of Iraqi children. Quite weird you care about this

@dongulio5539 Жыл бұрын

@@AndRei-yc3ti im not American, but the us doesn’t directly kill Iraqi kids on purpose, it isn’t their prerogative, the Russian government at this moment does, purposely targeting civilians, gomd

@AndRei-yc3ti Жыл бұрын

@Don Gulio they did though. There are numerous instances of Americans targeting weddings, school busses, etc in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Besides newly released info shows that only 9000 civilians died in Ukraine over a year of war, while the Americans killed more than that per year (on average 12,000). You can google for confirmation of this - youtube doesn't let me post links