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"When a day you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere."Of all the ways to announce an apocalypse, this is my very favourite - the end of civilisation loudly un-trumpeted by the disruption of schedules and the not-working of things. It comes from John Wyndham's The Day Of The Triffids, a book which sprang to mind recently when I saw some more of The Chinese Room's deserted, post-event mystery, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture.
I already knew that the game spoke to me in a very particular way. The announcement trailer features audio taken directly from the superbly creepy public information series Protect And Survive, which is full of utterly terrifying sound effects, a uniquely British attitude to certain annihilation, and an unacknowledged futility related to the barricading of domestic detritus against the might of nuclear blasts. Last year's E3 trailer includes ghostly chants from a numbers station, those unexplained beacons of paranoia and conspiracy used, it seems likely, for espionage during the Cold War.
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