The trailer itself is infused with a sense of dry, Russian humor and irony. The first trailer for this game hit on July 27, 2018, to a somewhat baffled reception, and it currently sits shy of about one million views. Floating pools of blood and water are better seen than explained. You arrive to find the area overrun by the lab’s robots, formerly docile but now rampant with an intent to kill, as well as … well, watch the trailer. Set in post-Cold-War Russia, you play as a KGB higher-up sent to do a report on a government lab that’s gone dark.
(Or right, I suppose, if you went down the anarchist path.) Hell, throw in some of the biological dadaism of “Death Stranding” and you’ll get a decent idea of what this game looks like.
“Atomic Heart” looks like the twisted, Communist lovechild of “Bioshock,” “Fallout” and “Portal,” with a just a splash of “Detroit: Become Human” gone horribly, horribly wrong. So you’d think the cryptic stuff is standard business for a game like “Atomic Heart.” Not so! Because this game got weird from the start. What used to be as straightforward as putting out a trailer or two has now turned into a complicated belly dance of teasers, teaser trailers, teasers for the teaser trailers, shadowy posters and outlines, cryptic stuff posted on unlisted websites and long, convoluted arguments among fanbases about seeing the latest Sonic incarnation’s left elbow hair.
Video game releases have evolved in the past few decades, big-time.
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