{"id":25754,"date":"2023-03-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/atomic-heart-review-confusion-and-fear-reflects-the-growing-concerns-of-an-industry\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:00:00","slug":"atomic-heart-review-confusion-and-fear-reflects-the-growing-concerns-of-an-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/atomic-heart-review-confusion-and-fear-reflects-the-growing-concerns-of-an-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Heart review &#8211; confusion and fear reflects the growing concerns of an industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nThere have been lots of questions about Atomic Heart, but maybe the biggest remains the question of just what exactly it is. As it turns out, like a lot of games that front-load on the dramatic marketing events, spark off controversies, and define themselves by reference to other, beloved games rather than on their own terms, Atomic Heart doesn&#8217;t really know what it is either. If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;ll probably get a good way through the game before you have much of a clue yourself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBefore you get to that point, you will most likely know it as at least &#8220;controversial&#8221; &#8211; and there have been just a few controversies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/questions-remain-over-atomic-heart-developers-russian-origins\">As we&#8217;ve reported elsewhere in more detail<\/a>, developer Mundfish has come under scrutiny for, first, putting on some poorly timed marketing events in Russia, featuring big red banners reading &#8220;Glory to Soviet Engineers&#8221; during the country&#8217;s own land-grabbing, and deeply horrifying, invasion of Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s been concern and confusion over Mundfish&#8217;s funding, with one of its key investors being tied to state-controlled Gazprom in a couple of ways. And to lesser concern, questions about the studio&#8217;s own origins and location. There was a disappointing non-statement about the Ukraine war in response: &#8220;global team&#8230; innovative game&#8230; pro-peace organisation&#8230; against violence against people,&#8221; and so on. Plus this old gem for good measure: &#8220;we do not comment on politics or religion.&#8221; Then there&#8217;s the data scandal, about its Russian store website allegedly including a clause informing users their data may be collected and sent to Russian state authorities, which Mundfish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/atomic-heart-developer-denies-claims-that-its-harvesting-data-for-russian-authorities\/\">emphatically claims to be &#8220;outdated&#8221;<\/a>. And there&#8217;s also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/mundfish-apologises-after-racist-cartoons-were-discovered-in-atomic-heart\">&#8220;racist cartoons&#8221; controversy<\/a>. (Curiously, they appeared in the PC version but on Xbox, where we played, a large number of TV screens have just been blank white since launch.)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/atomic-heart-review-confusion-and-fear-reflects-the-growing-concerns-of-an-industry\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been lots of questions about Atomic Heart, but maybe the biggest remains the question of just what exactly it is. 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