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Rick Lane

Tread carefully, Atomfall's world includes 'exploding sheep' that can 'infect you with spores that creep into your lungs'

In case you hadn't noticed already, Atomfall is a very British game. It features those unmistakable red phone boxes, plummy, moustachioed army generals, and that most quintessentially British creation, exploding sheep.

Now, you might be thinking that one of those items is not like the others. But combustible farmyard animals have been a fundamental part of British gaming culture for decades, primarily via the Worms series. As a kid, there were few things I enjoyed more than sending my younger brother's annelid army scattering with a perfectly deployed woolly bomb, though admittedly, they'd blow up in my own face half the time.

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