Atom rpg personality5/30/2023 ![]() Three-barreled shotguns and homemade tire armor are pretty common in the wastelands. ![]() Thanks to a bigger focus on crafting and scavenging, Atom RPG’s world has a much more DIY feel. Fortunately, several early side quests and some skillful scavenging will net your ATOM agent what they need to survive. Later encounters waste no time ripping you apart with machine gun-toting thugs. The early game is melee-intensive, and due to scarce ammunition, you’ll need to keep a knife or two on hand. This all takes place in turn-based tactical encounters. Turn-based WastesĪdversaries abound in Atom RPG, and before long you’ll be battling bandits, behemoth bugs and malformed mutants. Inventory items can be easily sorted and dragged around between your companions, and trading works… well, pretty much the same way as it does in Fallout, if we’re being honest.Įven the dialog and trade interfaces borrow heavily from Fallout 1 and 2. Left click and hold brings up a context menu to use your skills. While I can’t vouch for the prior state of the game’s control scheme, Atom RPG now uses a simple left click to move and interact. Interface seems to be a focal point for the 1.08 patch’s improvements, and I found it to be quite intuitive. It’s this type of attention to even the most minor details that truly elevates the Atom RPG experience. Except this time, the robbers actually got angry when they found out that I didn’t have anything, and glommed onto the fact that I stashed all my stuff in the vault. I dropped my gear inside the vault, walked outside, and got ambushed once more. So, I restored a save and figured I would hide my stuff inside the bunker. Upon trying to leave, they tried to rob me, and shot me to death in seconds when I resisted. I was hired by some unsavory characters to enter a vault and scope it out for loot. The game is abound with secrets, choices, hidden loot, and danger galore, and provides a surprising amount of actual opportunities for role playing. This is only a taste of my first four hours spent within Atom RPG. Or leave that all behind and meet up with a science cult. The developers claim it contains 30-100 hours of gameplay depending on playstyle, and that’s totally believable. Atom RPG, you now have my attention.įashionable Tinfoil Helmet Clubs abound in Atom RPG’s wastes. Improved translation, better interface, better inventory management, combat and gameplay balancing, optimization… mod support?! It’s a big list. The game saw a 1.0 release in December 2018, but didn’t make it on to my radar until a few weeks ago, with the drop of an extensive quality of life update. Atom RPG spent a considerable amount of time in Early Access after a modest, but successful, Kickstarter campaign ended in 2017. They picked an ambitious task for a debut release. By all appearances, this seems to be their first game as a team. Multinational European developer Atom Team hails from Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Latvia. Instead of the 1950s vacuum tube retro-futurism of Fallout, Atom has a dirty 1980s veneer of hard plastic and CRT greens. I hate to keep dragging out the tired comparisons to Fallout 1 and 2, but Atom RPG fully embraces its inspirations. Players customize their own agent of ATOM, a secret militaristic society, and are tasked with finding a wayward General in the game’s vast and hazardous post-nuclear Russian countryside. After the cold war went sour in 1986, the global superpowers decided to throw hands and chuck nukes at each other… and nothing was ever quite the same. This brings us to the subject of today’s review.Ītom RPG takes place in an alternative 2005 Russia. ![]() There’s no denying that the long-running series has cast a long shadow over video games. Over the years, the Fallout property has been taken to unforeseeable heights – and disgraceful lows. With a huge amount of player agency and plenty of toys in its sandbox, Fallout put the “role playing” back in roleplaying game. Many obstacles could be defeated without firing a single shot. Scores of interviews over the years reveal it as a rare example of a truly original passion project – the brainchild of letting a creative group of developers run wild.įallout’s lively combination of post-apocalyptic grittiness and atomic age retro-futurism was further highlighted by a nearly unparalleled amount of open world freedom. Prefer to watch? Click the link above or visit 2 Headed Hero on YouTube!ġ997’s Fallout was a strange phenomenon within the game-sphere of the time. Atom RPG does much to improve on the Fallout formula, and adds flavor all its own. Despite the generic title and premise, this is no asset flip or cheeki-breeki knockoff. Today’s Backlog Quest aims at the newest incarnation of Atom RPG, a love letter to the role playing games of old and a gushing homage to Interplay’s first two entries in the Fallout series. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |