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Rebellion is now well and truly in bed with the Game Pass model. We already knew that Sniper Elite Resistance was going to be a Day One January release on Microsoft’s gaming subscription service, but now the intriguingly cool-looking Atomfall will also land from the off in March.
While unfairly being tagged in some corners as Fallout in the UK, Atomfall is inspired by the real-life close-to-apocalyptic Windscale nuclear disaster in 1957. The area in real life has been rebranded these days as Sellafield, but in the game it has a Chornobyl-style exclusion zone set within the Lake District National Park in this alternative universe where northern Britain was laid waste by stupidity.
In the real disaster, several explosions blew the lid of the reactor to smithereens, and the ensuing fire, much like Chernobyl released a large amount of radioactive waste in the air. Unlike Chornobyl though we Brits don’t really talk about it and now treat the area as somewhere to go on holiday. Go figure.
The 28th March is the day Atomfall makes landfall on PC and Xbox and as well as the Game Pass version there is also a more deluxe version you can buy if you want to own the game for keeps.
The Deluxe edition will set you back $79.99 / £74.99 / €86.49 and includes the Enhanced Supply and Basic Supply bundles which will make life in the Zone a bit more bearable when you set out.
You also get to head to the Lake District three days earlier with early access and get the promise of an as-yet-unknown future expansion.
The more Standard version nets you the Basic Supply version only, whereas Game Pass gets the bare minimum.
Sniper Elite Resistance meanwhile will arrive on 30th January and is a slight departure from the previous five games in the series as you will be playing Special Operation Executive Agent Harry Hawker as the new Sniper on the Block.
If it is half as good as SE4 and SE5 this will make those dark nights of winter a little more bearable.
