Atomic Heart describes itself as an adventure first-person shooter that unfolds in an alternative universe, during hieght of the Soviet Union. You will be taking on the role of special agent P-3 who was sent by the Soviet government to a highly secret facility # 3826 after it went silent. This all sounds like a fairly standard premise for a game, but you may not think so after watching the following trailer:
IGN - Atomic Heart Review: Hack in the USSR.
[8/10] Review scoring. great. Atomic Heart is a highly imaginative, atompunk-inspired attempt at picking up where the likes of BioShock left off.
Games Radar - Atomic Heart review: A messy game with big ideas
[2.5/5] Atomic Heart has a lot of big ideas, but it doesn’t do a good enough job with the basics. With an incomprehensible storyline, weightless combat, and frustrating first-person platforming, Atomic Heart is left to stand in the shadow of the video games that so clearly inspired it.
Steam Reviews have always been hit or miss for me. Sure a thumbs up or down is some kind of metric, but I don’t think it’s enough. Take a look at some of the review text for instance:
There’s a mix of actually valuable content, and meme tier junk imo.
Filtering by negative reviews often yields some more well thought out stuff, but equally, is it worth giving a game the thumbs down due to no FOV or ray-tracing? Maybe for some.
Yeah you got to do a bit of reading between the lines, but the hours on record can give you a good indication of whether or not to take the review seriously. Yet aside from review bombs on occasion, the percentage of positive views gives you a reasonable idea if it is a hit or miss
