Atomic heart developers6/3/2023 Atomic Heart, by my count, has been through at least seven before it had even been out for a full day. Three or four though and you really are rapidly approaching the region of naivety and ignorance. Making one or two questionable mistakes, of course, is easy enough to chalk up to clumsiness - plenty of other games in our deeply awkward, foot-in-mouth enthusiast of an industry have made and then atoned for a dodgy mishap. Mundfish has not responded to any of Eurogamer's requests for comment on all of the above, but you can read about much of it in more detail in our report. As a result of all this, Ukrainian retailers have reportedly refused to stock the game, while its government contacted Sony, Microsoft, and Valve requesting a ban on selling it in the country. And last but not least, there's Atomic Heart's release date, on the one-year anniversary of a Vladimir Putin speech which more or less kicked off the war. ![]() Watch on YouTube Here's Digital Foundry's tech review of Atomic Heart to give you an idea of how it performs.Īnd there's more! Ukrainians have noted that the game's scene-stealing ballerina robots - which are also, you discover in-game, sex robots - bear an uncomfortable resemblance to Yulia Tymoshenko, a Ukrainian politician reportedly loathed in Russian political circles and known for, among her staunchly pro-NATO, pro-EU, anti-Eurasian Customs Union stances, her distinctive blonde, plaited hairstyle. (Curiously, they appeared in the PC version but on Xbox, where we played, a large number of TV screens have just been blank white since launch.) And there's also the "racist cartoons" controversy. Plus this old gem for good measure: "we do not comment on politics or religion." Then there's the data scandal, about its Russian store website allegedly including a clause informing users their data may be collected and sent to Russian state authorities, which Mundfish emphatically claims to be "outdated". against violence against people," and so on. There was a disappointing non-statement about the Ukraine war in response: "global team. And to lesser concern, questions about the studio's own origins and location. There's been concern and confusion over Mundfish's funding, with one of its key investors being tied to state-controlled Gazprom in a couple of ways. As we've reported elsewhere in more detail, developer Mundfish has come under scrutiny for, first, putting on some poorly timed marketing events in Russia, featuring big red banners reading "Glory to Soviet Engineers" during the country's own land-grabbing, and deeply horrifying, invasion of Ukraine. Availability: Out now on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S (Game Pass), PC ( Steam, Microsoft)īefore you get to that point, you will most likely know it as at least "controversial" - and there have been just a few controversies. ![]()
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