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the year is 1936. Dimitri Sarge suchenov
a professor at the Soviet Academy of
Medical Sciences has created a unique
electronic storage device little does he
know that his invention is the first
step in a series of events that will
result in a robotic Massacre the year is
1950. suchanop's inventions have ushered
in an age of technological prosperity
for the Soviet Union his laboratory
known as facility 3826 is hard at work
on a device that will link humans and
robots thought control over machines is
just years away the year is 1955. robots
have turned against their craters blood
covers the floors and walls of facility
3826 atomic heart begins
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has crafted an entirely alternate
history for atomic heart and for this
month's IGN first the game's creative
team has revealed the timeline of events
that directly lead to the robot Smash in
action of this intense first person
shooter in monfish's Twisted pass to the
invention of a miracle substance known
as polymath allows the Soviet Union to
chart significantly more technologically
advanced path through the first half of
the 20th century as you would expect of
the Soviets in the 1950s professor
sechinoff and the scientists of facility
3826 had their eyes very much on the
stars but they are involved in something
much grander than the Space Race these
alt history Russians were set on
conquering other planets as such the
Laboratories of facility 3826 studied
all manner of disciplines from
Interstellar engineering to Medicine
genetics and even botany but
sectionoff's true talents was in
robotics his storage device paved the
way for the creation of portable cold
fusion reactors which in turn unlock the
Rise of robot assistance by the
mid-1940s automatons were commonplace
and performed vital duties in rebuilding
the country after the devastation of the
second world war in 1948 sectionov
created the collective neural network A
system that allowed human operators to
command robots with improved efficiency
just two years later he began to design
a 2.0 version of the system that would
link a human mind with a robot's
operating system via a polymer implant
this system which would eventually be
known as thought would prove to be such
anov's greatest mistake the dream was
that thoughts would Advance Humanity in
Leaps and Bounds they could connect with
machines and instantly learn new
languages and instruments people could
become Quantum physicists overnight but
a catastrophic system failure in the
collective Network the very Network
section off wanted humans to plug into
caused all connected robots to turn
against their craters it's following
This Disaster that Atomic heart's
protagonist enters the story veteran
Soldier major Sergey nechev foreign
better known as P3 is Professor
sachinov's personal agent and has been
called upon to find and eliminate the
cause of the system failure right now
the disaster is confined to the halls
and Laboratories of facility 3826 which
itself is located in the Kazakhstan
mountains far from regular Society it's
p3's job to contain the disaster and
prevent it from spreading further
thankfully his body is augmented with a
serious amount of tech a metal skeleton
makes him almost as Hardy as his Droid
opponents and a variety of polymer
combat implants enhances deadly skills
if you've seen any gameplay from atomic
heart you'll know that playing as P3
looks like an absolute violence Riot
agent p3's Quest will see him exploring
the many different complexes that make
up facility 3826 while atomic heart
takes place in just this single location
its multiple districts are visually
distinct and designed to tell the
facility's main Stories the cellami
complex for instance Is Made Up On
futuristic architecture that reflects
the needs of his research team and
stands in stark contrast to the small
rural Villages that surround the
facility mudfish also promises Variety
in areas depending on their purpose the
theater complex built for use by not
just scientists but local civilians
provides a very different area to
explore than the robotic engineering
Labs that lie Underground on your
journey you'll also come across various
monuments and memorials paying Testament
in Grand fashion to past breakthroughs
and lost Geniuses mudfish notes that
there's an air of a utopian future
particularly in the more open locations
and the entrance of facility 3826 but
the developer promises that the deeper
into the complexes you explore the more
Sinister Things become
the machines may be the most immediate
source of danger but P3 will need to
navigate the politics and philosophies
of facility 3826's upper management if
fees Define the hidden truth behind the
disaster right at the top of the
hierarchy is of course Professor
sechinoff himself a man with a utopian
attitude he hopes to unite humanity and
pave a route to the stars with his
team's discoveries he is defended by two
unique bodyguard robots known as the
twins elegant mechanical ballerinas
equipped with the latest deadly
technology the section of surrounded
himself with similarly talented
scientists as atomic heart story
progresses you'll meet Larissa filatova
a neurosurgeon and former assistant
secession of philatova has humanist
philosophies and munnfish promises she
held some interesting personal motives
regarding the collective system failure
we'll also come into contact of
sechinoff's second in command deputy
director Michael stockhausen A Gifted
German doctor known for his cunning and
phenomenal memory he quickly Rose
through the ranks of the facility thanks
to his administrative Talent munfish
says that the web of connections to the
collective system failure runs deep with
representatives of not only the facility
being involved but also the USSR itself
P3 is in over his head in a situation
that seems to promise as much narrative
Intrigue as it does challenge in
shootouts
if you enjoyed this then make sure to
check out our boss fight gameplay video
and make sure to stick with igen this
month for even more exclusive atomic
heart coverage
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