Classic Fallout homage Atom RPG is getting a sequel in which you try to stop another apocalypse

Once again "set successful a satellite wherever the Cold War turned hot"

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Here is simply a question for the septuagenarians and older successful the RPS readership, assuming immoderate of you are that venerable: if immoderate chortling clip traveller had told you backmost successful the 50s oregon 60s that the perpetually sizzling panic of atomic apocalypse would 1 time go a nostalgic playground for videogames with two-headed cows and dogs named Dogmeat and swaggering cowboy zombies, what benignant of period-appropriate blunt instrumentality would you person clobbered that clip traveller with?

While you grizzled boomers get your gums into that vexing proposition, here's the trailer for AtomTeam's Atom RPG 2, the floridly titled sequel to 2018's Atom RPG. It's different turn-based, top-down matter successful the tone of the archetypal Interplay-published Fallouts, and appears affluent successful bunkers, enactment points and raging, perchance mutant bears. It's besides the enactment of a squad based crossed Cyprus, Ukraine and Latvia, who astir apt person precise antithetic ideas astir the quality and duration of the Cold War than the radical down Fallout.

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"ATOM RPG 2 is simply a story-heavy tactical CRPG acceptable successful a satellite wherever the Cold War turned hot," comments the Steam page. "Explore a surviving unfastened satellite with vertical level design, tactical battles, and an interactive satellite map. Take portion successful galore broadside activities: specified arsenic fishing, building, racing, and more, portion expanding your power and power implicit the land. Remember: your choices not lone signifier a resurrecting civilisation, but whitethorn besides forestall a caller apocalypse looming connected the horizon... "

For context, possibly work Sin's write-up of the archetypal Atom RPG's standalone metropolis enlargement Trudograd. She rather liked it, contempt being unimpressed by the combat. She was much keen connected the quest plan and writing. An excerpt:

I've talked a writer into walking into a minefield. I gained a level aft listening to immoderate aged women ramble connected a bench. I've sucker-shot a apical hatted millionaire with a crossbow, past taken a pastry of his corpse and eaten it. At 1 constituent during an interesting, text-based broadside ngo that reminded maine of the weird substance escapade bits of Space Rangers 2, I failed to bluff a communal guard, alerting a full basal to my presence, but subsequently bluffed his brag into surrendering the full basal without a fight.

Developers AtomTeam are besides the radical down Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy, which arsenic you whitethorn guess, is much Baldur's Gate than Fallout, and emphasises lizards implicit bears.

Ho, rickety veterans of the Duck and Cover era! Have you decided what you're going to deed my hypothetical Tardis aviator with yet?