The Atomfall Developers Knew It Would Be Compared to Fallout as Soon as It Was Revealed, Average Playthrough Around 25 Hours

At archetypal glance, you mightiness mistake Atomfall for a Fallout-style game. Perhaps, even, an actual Fallout crippled acceptable successful a post-apocalyptic England alternatively than a post-apocalyptic America. Atomfall is first-person, it’s post-nuclear (it’s called Atomfall for a reason), and it has an alt-history design, arsenic Fallout famously does.

Ryan Greene, creation manager astatine developer Rebellion, wholly understands wherever the Fallout comparisons are coming from. Not lone that, but the improvement squad knew Atomfall would beryllium compared to Fallout arsenic soon arsenic it was revealed.

“Once you play the game, you recognize it's not Fallout, but yes, we knew,” Greene told IGN.

“And 1 of our owners, Jason Kingsley, he's a large Fallout fan, truthful inevitably determination was going to beryllium immoderate parallels successful that immoderate benignant of endurance successful the apocalypse, instantly Fallout's going to travel up arsenic a thing. And those guys are large astatine what they do. And that's cool.”

But Atomfall isn’t truly similar Fallout astatine all. This is thing IGN pointed retired August past twelvemonth erstwhile we reported that Atomfall is thing overmuch much absorbing than a British Fallout.

Indeed, Greene warned that the Fallout examination is “misleading.”

“Once you play it for a bit, you're like, oh, this is its ain happening for sure,” Greene said. And, Greene pointed out, Rebellion isn’t Microsoft-owned Bethesda. The independently owned British workplace down the Sniper Elite franchise has created an ambitious game, comparative to its different games, but we’re not talking astir an Elder Scrolls oregon Fallout-sized acquisition here.

“The world is, here’s this precise palmy franchise and we're mentation 1.0,” Greene continued. “To beryllium compared to those guys… convey you precise much… Yes, we admit it due to the fact that that’s a skillful squad that's making that stuff.”

An mean Atomfall playthrough, Greene said, is “probably 25-ish hours.” However, completionists tin agelong that “a agelong way.”

To find retired however the crippled plays, beryllium definite to cheque retired IGN’s astir caller Atomfall hands-on preview, successful which our Simon Cardy went disconnected the heavy extremity and killed everyone during his playthrough.

It turns out, you tin spell done the full crippled sidesplitting everyone and it volition header with that. “You tin termination anyone oregon everyone if you choose,” Greene confirmed. “That's fine. We person aggregate finishes to the game, truthful immoderate of those would unopen down if you were expected to enactment with them throughout, but you'll find aggregate different routes to decorativeness the crippled and execute a result.”

Atomfall doesn’t person a main quest oregon a broadside quest successful the accepted RPG sense. Rather, “it's a spider web of connected story,” Greene explained.

“So adjacent if you sever 1 thread, you tin usually find different thread that leads you backmost to the wide mystery.”

Conversely, you tin play done Atomfall without sidesplitting anyone. At least, Greene is “fairly certain” you can. “I've made it astir 9 hours in, astir apt adjacent to halfway moving astatine a beauteous accelerated dev play velocity and killed nary one,” helium said. “I'm reasonably definite you tin bash it and there's nary gating of having to termination anyone ever.”

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].