Atomfall, the upcoming British Fallout-like game from Sniper Elite studio Revolt, has earned an unused trailer detailing more of its setting and gameplay.
Set in 1962, the game is set in a fictional quarantine zone in the north of England, although it is loosely based on the Windscale fire, an accident at a nuclear reactor facility in Cumbria, 1957.
Of course, there’s something much more bad going on here and it’s up to players to uncover the truth of the accident, as you can see in the trailer below.
For example, the area is controlled by a military reaction team called Protocol, but are they really who they seem? Coming soon is the British Atomic Analysis Section (BARD), responsible for nuclear bunker experiments. There are other factions as well, such as the primitive cults that have emerged in the patch along with the implementation of wicker men.
The trailer offers an unobstructed look at the game, featuring plenty of first-person combat, sneaking through military installations, crafting ammunition and equipment, and fighting massive mechs and glowing zombie-like creatures.
It’s obviously inspired by Fallout, but with a welcome British twist. That was certainly my influence on the game when I attended Gamescom, although this trailer offers a lot more features than just throwing a cricket bat at enemies.
If nothing else, I was particularly interested in its various Britishnesses, from the billowing nation-state to eating Cornish pasties to a character who greeted me with a hearty “how do you do it?!” There have also been plenty of discussion options as you uncover the mysteries beneath the hills, although it’s unclear for now whether the RPG-style options will affect the narrative.
Atomfall will be available on all Tide and next-gen consoles (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Form X/S) as well as PC (Steam, Epic, Windows). It will also arrive on Xbox Game Pass in the first hour.
Will you let him out?
Fallout itself may not be coming to the UK anytime soon, but the Fallout: London mod has proven to be a huge success – it has almost a million downloads.
