After a long time with several delays, Atomic Heart is finally released on February 21st. Preloading the game has now started for Xbox (it’s also included with Game Pass, so get ready if you’re going to play it), and thanks to this we know how much SSD storage we’ll need when the game launches.
As expected, it turns out to be quite a massive title, although it’s not the worst case scenario, at a whopping 78.66 gigabytes. We can probably expect something in the same order of magnitude for PC and Playstation 5 as well. This is pretty common for big games these days, but we’ve had several titles that were more than double the amount of space.
Atomic Heart has been called a Soviet version of Bioshock and looks really promising judging by the images and trailers we’ve seen so far. However, Russian developer Mundfish has come under fire recently for its reluctance to condemn the war against Ukraine and accused of collecting personal data for the Russian regime.
Also, as many have pointed out, we haven’t seen a single second of gameplay from the console versions – Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X – of Atomic Heart despite its release in less than two weeks. Mundfish says the new generation runs in “Solid 60fps, 4K in dungeons, and Dynamic resolution, mostly 4K at 60 fps in open world”but some proof would have been nice.
