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Rebellion’s Atomfall gets gameplay trailer showing off post-apocalyptic England

That’s apparently not what it looks like today

Marco Wutz

Rebellion Developments

Rebellion Developments, the team behind the Sniper Elite series, has shown off a gameplay and world introduction trailer for Atomfall, its post-apocalyptic first-person survival game set in England.

As per the official description of the game, “Atomfall is inspired by the real-life events of the 1957 Windscale disaster and the story picks up five years later in a fictionalized quarantine zone that encompasses rolling countryside, valleys, caves and even a picturesque English village. But this picture-perfect postcard setting is a hostile landscape that hides a dark mystery.”

The Windscale fire is the most serious nuclear accident in the United Kingdom’s history. The UK had built two nuclear reactors at a site in Windscale in its pursuit of nuclear weapons and one of the two towers in which the two reactors were housed caught fire in 1957. The flames raged for three days, spewing radioactive smoke into the air and delivering the fallout across the UK and large parts of Europe.

“To get to the bottom of what happened at Windscale, you will need to navigate military encampments, delve through abandoned bunkers below ground, and risk your life in Pagan ruins,” the description continues. “Your trusty metal detector will also help you uncover a few secrets buried beneath the surface! Central to the dark mystery are the host of eccentric characters and cryptic organizations that inhabit the quarantine zone. These individuals have been cut off from the outside world for years and left to their own devices, so are anything but normal. Your interactions with them are important and will shape your journey. But be careful, they aren’t all friendly and you will need to get to grips with an array of ranged and melee weapons if you are to survive!”

Atomfall is set to be released on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S in March 2025.

For more from the studio, check out our interview with Rebellion co-founder and CEO Jason Kingsley.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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