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PETER HOSKIN reviews Atomfall: It really is grim up north in Atomfall - a Great British spin on Fallout (complete with teashops, bandstands…and gangs of thugs)


PETER HOSKIN: Ah, what a beautiful Cumbrian village! A church steeple rising above thick stone walls and slate roofs. A bakery with little iced cakes in its windows.

Oh, and a great column of radioactive awfulness rising into the sky from the broken towers of a nearby nuclear facility. It is set in an alternate history 1960s where the Windscale nuclear disasters turned much of Northern England into a radioactive quarantine zone Like the Dark Souls series from which it takes inspiration, this game demands that you press your controller buttons just so to dodge and weave around enemy attacks

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