It's also about the competition between the USSR and the United States at that time. 'Atomic Heart' has several meanings, and it's not only the machine core. Chelomeyand Atomic Heart’s wider art styleis stunning, where retrofuturist architecture plays host to humanoid robots, who serve and entertain the populace.Set-piece statues, installations.

If all these Soviet robots were really created in the 50s, all the technology that resembles the early Internet – this could be interesting if one of the key global superpowers pulled ahead instead of the other during the Cold War. We at Mundfish are huge fans of science fiction and we wanted to show this world in such a way that you would start wondering – this could all turn out to be true if the history went in a different direction. Stanislaw Lem, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, science fiction magazine 'Tekhnika Molodezhi' – the '50s–'60s era – it is the golden age in science, arts, architecture. Mundfish: First of all, we've drawn inspiration from the Soviet sci-fi and the space discovery era in the USSR. IGN : What have been your inspirations for Atomic Heart? It seems to remind many folks of BioShock (in a very good way).

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