![]() The Last of Us Part 2's box art is just Ellie's pained, angry face. Death Stranding's art is Norman Reedus in a rain jacket, with a mechanical grabber thing in the foreground. God of War Ragnarok's art shows Kratos and Atreus, ready for action. It's somewhat understandable, because characters are often what sell players on a game. And, yet, they went with a White guy holding a gun on the cover. It's a short trailer, but it's filled with arresting imagery. There's a shot of the character shooting at a tentacled robot with a dead whale beached behind it. Then it jumps forward to the action, as the player uses unique-looking weapons to defeat enemies in a sleek, brutalist environment. Then, it cuts to a different skeleton spinning around on a merry-go-round, with a big red toadstool and cabbage behind them. The trailer, for comparison, opens with an image of a mustachioed skeleton, rock atop its head pointing out of frame, with other skeletons frozen in place in the background. There are small flourishes here, but unless you're really looking for them, this just reads as a White guy holding a gun. The most distinguishing feature, a Soviet automaton with a red star on its forehead, is difficult to see in the dark red half of the art. His rifle has yellow wire running along the side, but without any context, that means nothing and isn't unusual enough to pique my interest in a world where gravity guns and portal guns and energy swords exist. But, if you see it from a few feet away, it looks like he's just wearing a gray button down shirt. 'Atomic Heart keeps on going and throws everything at the wall, from large set-pieces to quiet moments of. He's wearing the shirt of a military uniform, with Major Nechayev S.A. 'Atomic Heart is a deeply ambitious, highly imaginative, and consistently impressive atompunk-inspired attempt at picking up where the likes of BioShock left off something it’s done with a lot of success.' Leer ms >. The guy on the Atomic Heart box art, by contrast, has little to distinguish himself. And, most importantly, there's a Viking longship in the background with shields mounted to the side and a dragon's head carved into the wood at the bow. The weapons he's holding are era-appropriate axes. ![]() ![]() But, in this case, the bearded White guy is clearly a viking, with fur fringe around his neck and wrists, face paint around his eyes, braids in his hair and beard, and a raven on his shoulder. That game's box similarly depicts a bearded White guy holding weapons. Even by the standards of video game box art, which is generally uninteresting, this is an abysmal failure.įor comparison, let's look at the cover art for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, which isn't even particularly good. Yeah, that's right, the Soviet steampunk game is being marketed to audiences with a picture of a bearded White guy holding a gun. ![]()
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