Developer Mundfish is trying to increase Atomic Heart from a sport to a franchise, and it is doing so with not one however two new video games. A full sequel, Atomic Heart 2, is on the way in which, alongside a extra experimental multiplayer title with a reality-bending twist known as The Dice.
Introduced throughout Summer time Recreation Fest and happening after the primary game–which was set in a retro-futuristic Nineteen Fifties Soviet Union–Atomic Heart 2 will start with the “world getting ready to collapse,” and it’ll see gamers head to extra various places. Mundfish says the story is now on “a world scale,” however it’s unclear simply the place we’ll really be going.
Like the primary sport, there will likely be role-playing parts, which will likely be deeper this time round, in addition to a dual-wielding fight system that may let gamers mix glove talents (particular tech-based assaults) with melee weapons and weapons. It is right here the place the studio’s BioShock affect is maybe most clear, letting gamers discover their supreme mixture as they blast away at machines.
No launch window was given for Atomic Heart 2, however it’s not the one Atomic Heart sport on the way in which. Mundfish additionally revealed The Dice, an MMO spin-off that takes place after the primary sport.
“A number of years after the occasions of Atomic Heart, the world stands getting ready to a brand new menace,” reads a line within the official announcement. “A mysterious large levitating construction referred to as The Dice has develop into the epicenter of more and more harmful phenomena, and in an effort to save humanity, gamers should plunge deep into its secrets–and survive.”
The Dice (the construction) is greater than meets the attention, with an “equation” hidden inside that may drastically alter actuality. Failure to resolve the equation will imply the destruction of the human race.
The sport’s environments will always change, with “rows and edges” showing and new enemies popping up, and hidden quests are scattered all through the world. There will even be “persistent development” that will not be halted by “failure,” although Mundfish did not make clear precisely what which means.
Like Atomic Heart 2, The Dice would not have a launch window but. Each video games are coming to consoles in addition to PC.