Atomfall makes the postapocalypse quintessentially British

Stop maine if you’ve heard this 1 before. You awake successful a dimly lit bunker with small recollection of yourself oregon your surroundings. A fewer moments later, having learned the basics of endurance (throwing a punch; crafting a bandage), you look blinking into the light. But wait: thing is different. You spot not a frontier expanse a la Fallout oregon the painterly wilderness of Breath of the Wild but the windswept uplands of England: past adust chromatic walls snake astir rolling hills, enclosing the vivid greens of clipped grass, ferns, and gnarled oak trees. 

The adjacent fewer hours are some brilliantly disorienting and mercilessly punishing. Immediately, Atomfall, whose maker, Rebellion, is down the cult Sniper Elite series, lets you rotation successful immoderate direction. Within minutes, you brushwood hard-nosed foes speaking successful wide British accents who would emotion thing much than to crook your skull into cornflakes with a cricket bat. You snoop astir ruined workplace buildings to scavenge resources earlier discovering a enactment from a long-deceased person, containing a acceptable of coordinates that you indispensable people manually connected your map. Lo, the escapade begins proper, with lone the lightest-touch guidance.

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