At first look, you may mistake Atomfall for a Fallout-style sport. Maybe, even, an precise Fallout sport set in a post-apocalyptic England fairly than a post-apocalyptic America. Atomfall is first-person, it’s post-nuclear (it’s known as Atomfall for a motive), and it has an alt-history design, as Fallout famously does.
Ryan Greene, artwork director at developer Insurrection, completely understands the place the Fallout comparisons are coming from. Not solely that, however the improvement workforce knew Atomfall could be in contrast to Fallout as quickly as it was revealed.
“When you play the sport, you notice it is not Fallout, however sure, we knew,” Greene advised IGN.
“And one in every of our house owners, Jason Kingsley, he is a giant Fallout fan, so inevitably there was going to be some parallels in that any sort of survival within the apocalypse, instantly Fallout’s going to come up as a factor. And people guys are nice at what they do. And that is cool.”
However Atomfall isn’t actually like Fallout in any respect. That is one thing IGN identified August final yr after we reported that Atomfall is one thing rather more fascinating than a British Fallout.
Certainly, Greene warned that the Fallout comparability is “deceptive.”
“When you play it for a bit, you are like, oh, that is its personal factor for positive,” Greene mentioned. And, Greene identified, Insurrection isn’t Microsoft-owned Bethesda. The independently owned British studio behind the Sniper Elite franchise has created an formidable sport, relative to its different video games, however we’re not speaking about an Elder Scrolls or Fallout-sized expertise right here.
“The actuality is, right here’s this very profitable franchise and we’re model 1.0,” Greene continued. “To be in contrast to these guys… thanks very a lot… Sure, we respect it as a result of that’s a skillful workforce that is making that stuff.”