Atomfall

Fallout vibes, but more focused, without the leveling system. Still plenty of fun!

Environments look great, rusty old guns are awesome, combat is okay. I got around 3/4 through the main campaign and got burnt out, installed like a year later and just felt completely lost. The amount of "leads" that are winding and confusing is just more detective tedium than I care for. I am sure some people absolutely love putting the puzzle together. Im just not up for cryptic puzzling with my first person shooting. I felt like I basically needed to start a new game to have any idea where I was at and how to proceed, but then iv already been there done that and dont want to. The game is designed around multiple playthroughs in mind to see different possibilties but meh. Its not my flavor enough to want to start a new game even with that in mind. One of those games thats better played for a little bit on rent (Its part of gamepass at the moment) But like I said im sure this is right up some peoples alley with all the clue solving nonsense. I think Rebellion did a good job in designing the world, its just not a game I would personally recommend.

Beautiful. Great concept. This game tries (and succeeds) at marrying the two concept of a hardcore puzzle game and a survival shooter. Except combat is way too hard. Very limited inventory. I played "challenging" first. Then brought it down to "casual". Same problem. Opponents do not seem to use player speed limitations for weapons, for example. So they hit quickly with a high-damage weapon twice as fast as you can. The pacing is weird - you can explore for 30 minutes and see only 1 opponent, then get swarmed with 8. The combat is burdensome enough that skills in fighting games helps only minimally. The limited inventory (without stacking) is way too limited for a combat/heals/resists need. Even in casual, both of these are a problem. I couldn't bring myself to play in story mode, but I am keeping what could be a wonderful game hoping it will improve and thinking I can at least go through story mode later. I think this is still a "yes" for some, but it will be a "No" for most, hence my rating.

Really good! Fallout: Britain essentially, with a big pinch of immersive sim in it, (i.e games like Thief, Dishonored, Prey). Perhaps a pinch of the Metro games too, as ammo is very scarce. Decent story, loads of fun exploration, very few bugs. The only critiques I have are that the enemy AI is a bit basic sometimes, and towards the end of the game there are lots of running back and forth between the levels to explore all your quests.

The open world aspect of this game feels fun but almost everything else about the gameplay fell short. For a game that focuses on desperate combat mechanics, it truly does feel desperate when you can't block, can't dodge or effectively counter any attacks in this game, it's almost impossible to not get hit in this game especially if you try to do as much melee combat as possible because yeah for a game that encourages you to save ammo and be wise and use melee more often, that option also isn't viable? It almost feels like Rebellion didn't think this through when this is literally one of the essential features of melee combat. You can argue that there's the kicking feature but it consumes far too much stamina to actually remain effective long or against multiple enemies at once. Using guns is pretty much a must in this game because you are guaranteed to win and you'll feel better than using melee because you don't get rewarded for being good at melee whatsoever besides from saving your ammo

Es beginnt gut und am Anfang mag es noch überschaubar sein, wenn Kartenmarkierungen, Quests und Ziel im etwas im Unklaren bleiben aber eine richtige Spielstimmung will sich nicht so recht einstellen. Zumindest ich hatte immer das Gefühl mich nicht richtig zurecht zu finden und ständig doppelte und dreifache Wege zu laufen. Es gibt viele Hilfen für das Gameplay, die aber leider nicht zum Spielprinzp passen. Ich kein Freund von irgendwelchen Hardcore Survival Modi, sondern ich level und loote entspannt durch die Story und gerne kann es schon etwas aufregend werden. Und ja, Loot ist wenig vorhanden, sei sparsam und schlau mit den Items, kein Spray and Pray, rot markierte Gegner, Hinweise aber es ist alles so unzusammenhängend und es bleiben immer Fragenzeichen ob und wie man jetzt irgendwas erfüllen muss. Irgendwann war meine Frustrationstoleranz dann aufgebraucht. Zu erforschen und zu entdecken ohne zu stark an die Hand genommen zu werden ist gut, ich mag auch keine Schlauchgames aber hier fühlte sich die Open World irgend wann immer mehr wie ein Labyrinth ohne Gesicht und Richtung an. Generische Gegner, die auch später einfach umgangen oder geoneshotet werden, die Herausforderung besteht dann nur noch daran das passende Item für die Bedrohungslage X, wie Elektrokäfer oder die roten Viecher zu haben und das mit dem sehr kleinen Dash überein zu bekommen oder den MK1 statt MK2 zu besitzen. Künstlich wirkende Spielerfahrungshindernisse die als Herausforderung getarnt daher kommen... Langweilig, sinnlos nervig und irgendwann nur noch frustrierend.

I normally dont play games of this style. However this one looked interesting and picked it up on sale. This is such a good game. The story, the choices, the environment. All of it is so enjoyable. From starting out afraid of everything to feeling (almost) invincible. I completed the game in around 20 hours and I wish the game was another 20 hours long. Will eventually be picking up some of the DLC to continue the fun

A Gem of a game! Top tier AA ,even a AAA game made by the people behind Sniper Elite of all! Clever setting to be able to use a lot of assets from the Sniper Elite series (Seems like it atleast) but the writing... I didn't know Rebellion had potential for good writing after experiencing the story and dialogue that Sniper Elite games had. If anyone has played a game called Eastshade, this reminded me a lot about that. A quest leading to another quest and added a pretty fun shooting to boot. It is like a lovechild of Oblivion, Far Cry and Stalker. A really good match all around. Also cudos to the Engineers that made the optimization for this game. I was able to run highes settings at least 90fps with my setup at 3440 x 1440 and still have my PC be completely silent, didnt even curve my fans. I bet I could run this game with playable framerate with my entertainment PC as well with equivalent of GTX 1060.