Since it was first revealed, Rebellion’s upcoming game Atomfall has often been compared to Bethesda’s Fallout. While both games do share a few similarities–from post-apocalyptic themes to killer robots–Rebellion says the game is more than just Fallout with a British coat of paint.
“Once you play it for a bit, you’re like, ‘oh, this is its own thing for sure,'” art director Ryan Greene explained to IGN. “And one of our owners, Jason Kingsley, he’s a big Fallout fan, so inevitably there was going to be some parallels in that any kind of survival in the apocalypse, immediately Fallout’s going to come up as a thing. And those guys are great at what they do. And that’s cool. The reality is, here’s this very successful franchise and we’re version 1.0. To be compared to those guys–thank you very much–yes, we appreciate it because that’s a skillful team that’s making that stuff.”
Another key differentiator in the game is its lack of a traditional main quest, as players will instead work their way through several interconnected stories that all eventually connect to the overarching mystery of the game. Greene added that Atomfall will even allow you to adopt a non-lethal approach to playing the game, and he’s “fairly certain” that the game can be completed without needing to kill a single person.
In his hands-on impressions of Atomfall, GameSpot’s Jake Dekkeras wrote about how the game has more in common with cult-classic investigative adventure Paradise Killer than Fallout.
Atomfall Is A Detective Game
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“Atomfall is a detective game. Yes, the post-apocalyptic first-person shooter from the Sniper Elite studio feels more like Paradise Killer than Fallout. Rather than ping-ponging between objective markers around a map, Atomfall’s story is structured around a series of clues that are organically picked up and tracked as you explore its world. Its quests are nonlinear and you’re gently guided to points of interest,” Dekker wrote in GameSpot’s Atomfall preview. “From there, it’s on you to reference your quest log and put the story of its world together.”
Atomfall will launch for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One on March 27, and it’ll also be a day-one release through Game Pass.