Atomfall News

Rebellion CEO puts the studio's recent avoidance of layoffs down to control of scope and cost: 'Sometimes we say, guys, this game's too big'

PC Gamer's Joshua Wolens recently spoke to Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley about the studio's extremely British survival FPS Atomfall, which is a kind of Fallout: It's Grim Up North Edition. (Or possibly Stalker: Shadow of Cumbria.) During that conversation, Josh asked how the studio had managed to avoid the layoffageddon that's hit the rest of the games industry following the Covid boom...
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As a Stalker sicko, the 2 hours I just spent with Atomfall have made it one of my most-anticipated games this year

For over a decade, Atomfall has been Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley's "dream game," one he was dropping coy, detail-free allusions to in chats with PCG all the way back in 2018...
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Atomfall Hands-On Preview – It’s Like Sniper Elite, But…

When Rebellion Developments announced Atomfall, I was intrigued. I love the Sniper Elite series, and I was excited to see the studio stretch its legs after making nothing but Sniper Elite games since around 2013. An RPG-esque Fallout-style game set in the 1960s after a nuclear disaster turns England into a post-apocalyptic, radioactive quarantine zone? That premise alone had me hooked. Imagining that setting mixed with the incredible mechanics that Rebellion is known for? What could go wrong?

Well, after just over an hour with Atomfall, I have some concerns.

As I mentioned, Atomfall follows the protagonist—an amnesiac with no identity—who must explore a quarantine zone in the Lake District, Northern England, five years after the Windscale nuclear disaster to uncover the truth about what happened. The world is full of doomsday cultists, rogue military factions, robots, radioactive monstrosities, and, of course, bandits. Lots and lots of bandits.

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Tread carefully, Atomfall's world includes 'exploding sheep' that can 'infect you with spores that creep into your lungs'

Atomfall dev says Rebellion's open world shooter has 'some experimental stuff' that can have a 'huge influence' on the game world: 'It might work out. It might not'

Rebellion's upcoming Atomfall already draws strong comparisons with Stalker, what with it being an open-world shooter set in a cordoned off zone in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster. But it seems the latest game from the Sniper Elite devs may also be taking a leaf out of Dying Light 2's book, if the words of lead designer Ben Fisher are anything to go by...
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