
In the early buildings of Facility 3826, I did encounter the Game Over screen more than I would have liked to, but it wasn’t an issue with the controls.

That’s not to say I struggled with the game. Given that most of Atomic Heart‘s menus point to a game that was primarily optimized for a mouse and keyboard rather than a controller, the controls on the PlayStation 5 leave something to be desired. Switching between weapons is just as cumbersome on a controller as you scroll through them pushing left or right on the D-Pad. You can switch between these two skills by hitting up on the D-Pad, but I didn’t find it to be an intuitive system when trying to survive an onslaught of robots. While Shok is always equipped via the triangle button, P-3 can only equip two of his other glove skills at once, and only one of those can be used at a time.
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Other glove skills include a frost attack and shield, but Atomic Heart‘s choice of control scheme really limits a player’s ability to use their full suite of skills. To mitigate this disaster, Sechenov employs Major P-3, who, along with his Polymer-powered talking glove, CHAR-les, sets out to get to the bottom of this robot rampage. Robots, built with a substance known as Polymer that has been the backbone of the Soviet’s successes, have lost control and killed most of the workers at the facility. Back on the surface world, an area known as Facility 3826 is no longer operational. Its full launch is imminent, but before it can be brought online, some matters need handling.

Dmitry Sechenov, arguably the most famous scientist in all of the Soviet Union, is set to unveil Kollectiv 2.0, a neural network that will connect all Soviets using a small invention known as the THOUGHT.

A city, floating in the clouds, with people lining its streets and waterways conversing about how great life is under communist rule as they prepare to learn about the future of their empire. The opening moments of Atomic Heart can best be described as a Stalinist’s wet dream with how it depicts its idealized vision of the Soviet Union.
