Rebellion’s Atomfall, winner of the Best British Game award at this year’s BAFTA Game Awards, is set to become a TV series by Two Brothers Pictures, which, cunningly, is run by two brothers, Jack and Harry.
“Atomfall has such a distinctive British tone and setting, and it’s been a real joy developing it alongside the Rebellion team – especially as two brothers working alongside two brothers (Jason and Chris Kingsley),” said the Williams brothers in a statement “There’s something very exciting about expanding this strange, unsettling story for television.” Added Rebellion co-founders Jason and Chris Kingsley in their own statement: “It is always exciting to work with people who share the same passion for creating and telling great stories and we are sure that this partnership will help to deliver a television series that will delight fans of the game and beyond.”
The game is set in an alternative-history Northern England in 1962, five years after a fictionalised version of the real-world Windscale nuclear disaster of 1957. The player wakes up in a bunker with no knwoledge of how they got there, and upon exiting, discovers they are within the huge militarised Quarantine Zone in the Lake District.
They then have to discover exactly what happened during the disaster, who is covering up the truth, and battling cults, robots and deformed creatures that may have been human. The game featured a unique system in which you could kill almost any NPC, thereby altering the story if you happened to casually murder someone very important.
Rebellion expanded the story with the Wicked Isle and Red Strain DLC packs, the latter featuring a red plague that is corrupting the environment and people in a new area, Scafell Crag.
“Atomfall is an interesting game,” said Gareth in our 7/10 review. “It might not be wholly unique in anything it does, but it combines its core ideas in a way that feels fresh. A big part of that comes through the drip feed of the underlying story, whilst another is the glorious British countryside that makes up its maps. It likely isn’t going to blow your mind, but it’s an enjoyable journey and you would still be missing out if you didn’t give Atomfall a go.”
Source: Empire
