Atomfall, the upcoming recreation from Sniper Elite developer Rise up that a number of of us are be seeking to for an additional repair of British post-apocalypse with a radioactive tinge to it that is not fairly an official Fallout tackle our unhappy little island, now has a correct launch date. It is arriving on March 25, 2025, as recent trailer with very English countryside vibes conveys.
Whereas we techincally obtained British Fallout earlier this yr due to large mod Fallout: London, which we actually preferred when it wasn’t struggling too many bugs, ever since Atomfall was introduced, it has been getting these comparisons. Whether or not it warrants them is as much as you to determine, and you have now obtained extra materials to go off of.
Closing with the aforementioned launch date of March 25 subsequent yr, Atomfall’s newest trailer is about in an iconic British location – the woods. Casterfell Woods, in truth, Rise up affiliate head of design Ben Fisher clarifies in an Xbox Wire submit launched alongside the trailer. Apparently it is “a wild and inhospitable place, underpinned by an instantly eerie vibe”.
Yep, add in a liberal provide of discarded condoms and lager cans strewn about subsequent to the wicker males Casterfell has, and that is a fairly correct description of a number of the wooded areas round the place I dwell. The very fact the trailer mainly reveals some poor fella being subjected to a people tune, after which being assaulted subsequent to a dilapidated telephone field by a stranger who walks off whistling additionally appears very real looking England too.
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Anyway, the telephone field is ringing, and Fisher says that is vital, writing: “The voice on the finish of the telephone line is considered one of Atomfall’s many mysteries that gamers should sort out if they’re to unravel what occurred on the Windscale nuclear plant all these years in the past.”
By way of influences, the developer provides that Atomfall’s drawing on basic sci-fi like Physician Who, The Quatermass Experiment and The Day of the Triffids for the creepy woodland bits of its survival-action, er, motion.
You can give it a go on PC, Xbox Collection X/S, Xbox One, PS5, and PS4 when it releases, in addition to Xbox Recreation Go on day one. Tell us how grotty your native woods is under, and whether or not you are planning to play Atomfall.