Space travel was everywhere in the USSR, like Pokemon in the 90s, going so far as to become the “unofficial religion”of the Union. This fascination with the stars pre-dates even the Russian Revolution: Pre-science fiction works about the vast reaches of space were popular in Imperial Russia.
The Space Race led to a cultural fascination with space travel that spanned the world, and the Bolsheviks were no exception. Use of robotics in industry and (potentially) agriculture was staggering, with the Soviets using more than 76 thousand in 1980! Robots frequently appear in Atomic Heart’s trailer and promotional material, which is great if there’s anything I love more than skeletons, it’s robots! Coincidentally, the Soviets loved them too! During the Winter War of 1939, remote-controlled ‘teletanks’ were used by those crafty commies. You’re wondering who I am, machine or mannequin
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For example, Skrunda-1 in Latvia remains as empty as Soviet TV programming. Around 41 of them remain populated today, now with the official term ‘Naukograd’. Even after the Soviet Union packed in it in 1991, these cities remained tightly controlled. The second was for cities you really couldn’t get in or out of. Conditions in these cities varied in Arzamas-16 (now Sarov), residents enjoyed higher wages and constant supplies of goods even as the USSR’s economy crumbled in the late 1980s.Ĭhelyabinsk-40 (later 65) became one of the most contaminated places on Earth, and is the birthplace of the third-largest nuclear accidentof all time. There were two ‘classes’ of these shut-off parts of the world: One was for cities you couldn’t get in or out of. Entire cities were built purely for research purposes throughout the 20 th century, mostly for nuclear technology and military bases. Details of the game remain unknown, but the variety of environments shown off implies that we’ll get to go on a rollicking adventure through scientific Hell-houses and robot paradises.Įlaborate research facilities are nothing new, but the Soviets went one step beyond.
If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, you can check it out at the bottom of the article. Atomic Heart is like a mix between Bioshock and S.T.A.L.K.E.R, promising tight close-quarters combat and trippy visuals. You play as a special agent, sent to the facility to find out why it’s gone dark. 3826 – a laboratory of horrors run by the yet-to-be-revealed Dr.
I’m back in the U.S.S.RĪtomic Heart takes part during the ‘high noon’ of an alternate-history Soviet Union, in the top-secret Facility no. The game’s become one of my more anticipated titles simply because of this commitment to Socialist secrecy, but did you know that some of its more bizarre features are based on partial fact? So break out that Pepsi you bought with diesel submarine s, and get ready to ‘learn’ the (real) history behind the (fictional) Facility no. One of the most iconic video games ever made, Tetris, was designed by a Soviet computer engineer in 1984.Ītomic Heart, however, seeks to tap into the Communist Bloc’s history with robots, secret bases, and goddamn zombies, by way of beating them to death with improvised instruments. Soviet-made weapons like the AK-47 assault rifle and the T-34 medium tank remain in use throughout the world for their low cost and relative reliability. Communism remains a system of government employed by nations – one of which is a potential superpower. The Soviet Union collapsed nearly three decades ago, yet its legacy remains with us today.
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