Tone and story to one side, I love all of the out-of-control and openly hostile robots that have ravaged this world. As P-3 tells his glove’s AI to shut up for the umpteenth time, I also couldn’t help but feel that he sounds more like an all-American action hero from games of yesteryear than a Soviet one, thanks to both the writing and the American accent. Putting it all together, there’s scope for this to examine the Soviet ethos as wild science fiction experiments run amok, in a similar fashion to BioShock’s themes drawn from 20th century utopian and dystopian thinkers. The visual styling and imagery captures the setting excellently, but there are places where it’s quite jarring as well, from the overtly sexualised faceless fembots to the bizarrely raunchy AI fridge where you can upgrade your weapons and character. You, Major “P-3” Nechaev, get sent to hunt down these traitors. But just as Collectiv 2.0 starts rolling out, the robots start murdering everyone in sight after traitors flip the switch on their programming. Those advanced robotics help the USSR win WW2 early, and tech advances have lead to mass automation through a proto-internet called Collectiv, with vast flying installations, research facilities and more pushing tech further and further – you can basically just inject a specialised education into your brain, for one thing.
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