Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic computer role-playing games originally produced and published by Interplay. Although set in and after the 22nd century, its story and artwork are heavily influenced by the post-World War II nuclear paranoia of the 1950s. Currently, there have been five full role-playing titles in the series–Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4.

Currently, the most recent game in the Fallout series is Fallout 4, one of the five role playing titles in the series and a game for the Xbox One, PS4 and the PC. The plot for this game is rather simple. When the nukes start to hit America, you and your family are chosen to enter Vault 111, a completely radiation-proof Vault where only the select few can enter and survive the nuclear war. However, all is not as it seems when you enter Vault-Tec, the company that manufactures the Vaults. It just so happens that Vault-Tec has a bad habit of performing various experiments on the many people inside of their vaults, which, in the player’s case, means being cryogenically frozen. When you finally wake up, you find that everyone in the Vault is dead, your spouse was murdered by mysterious men and your son was stolen by the same people. Now, you must leave Vault 111 and find your son.

Throughout the game, your protagonist plays a unique role in this universe. Sure, you have to find your son, but you have no idea about the world outside of the Vault. You have nothing to protect yourself and nowhere to search. Thus, you must build. Fallout 4 is different from its predecessors in this simple way. In the games that came before, one simply followed the side quest, killed many raiders and mutants, bought new things, rinse and repeat. In Fallout 4, you can do this, but its much more beneficial to not only build your weapons from scraps that you find, but to also build various settlements with the people that you find scattered across the wasteland.

Gameplay-wise, Fallout 4 is very similar to its predecessors. When you start the game, you create your character, set your main character’s stats out of seven categories– strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck– and choose various perks based on your stats as the game progresses. Combat is also similar to the previous games with the same ability to attack freely and to use your V.A.T.S. to slow down time and precisely target your opponent’s weak points. The only new features added are the addition of sprinting, and the ability to customize your weapons and settlements.

Environmentally, the game utilizes its brand new game engine to create graphics never before seen in a Fallout game. Fallout 3 is able to use textures and bump mapping to create a sense of depth that allows the player to immerse himself in the game. However, Fallout 4 can use more system resources, and as such, Bethesda has actually modeled all the tiny nuances of character and creature models, making them more realistic. Even the graphical changes can be seen in how the game itself renders fur and how the game lacks the greenish gloom that always seemed to be apparent in Fallout 3.

However, this game is not perfect. The faction questlines are incredibly similar in the way that they end with each ending for the factions ending with them allying or destroying the other factions. Also, seeing how Fallout 4 has a theme of your choices affecting the world around you, having such a minimal effect on the world for such a big decision seems fairly lazy. Secondly, the other characters you meet in the game still have fairly wooden facial animation, which takes from the immersion in the game.

Still, this game is incredibly fun to play and very enjoyable to look at. I would definitely recommend it to any fans of the action RPG genre of video games.

Currently, the game is $59.99 and is sold on Amazon and at most stores that sell video games.

Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic computer role-playing games originally produced and published by Interplay. Although set in and after the 22nd century, its story and artwork are heavily influenced by the post-World War II nuclear paranoia of the 1950s. Currently, there have been five full role-playing titles in the series–Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4.

Currently, the most recent game in the Fallout series is Fallout 4, one of the five role playing titles in the series and a game for the Xbox One, PS4 and the PC. The plot for this game is rather simple. When the nukes start to hit America, you and your family are chosen to enter Vault 111, a completely radiation-proof Vault where only the select few can enter and survive the nuclear war. However, all is not as it seems when you enter Vault-Tec, the company that manufactures the Vaults. It just so happens that Vault-Tec has a bad habit of performing various experiments on the many people inside of their vaults, which, in the player’s case, means being cryogenically frozen. When you finally wake up, you find that everyone in the Vault is dead, your spouse was murdered by mysterious men and your son was stolen by the same people. Now, you must leave Vault 111 and find your son.

Throughout the game, your protagonist plays a unique role in this universe. Sure, you have to find your son, but you have no idea about the world outside of the Vault. You have nothing to protect yourself and nowhere to search. Thus, you must build. Fallout 4 is different from its predecessors in this simple way. In the games that came before, one simply followed the side quest, killed many raiders and mutants, bought new things, rinse and repeat. In Fallout 4, you can do this, but its much more beneficial to not only build your weapons from scraps that you find, but to also build various settlements with the people that you find scattered across the wasteland.

Gameplay-wise, Fallout 4 is very similar to its predecessors. When you start the game, you create your character, set your main character’s stats out of seven categories– strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck– and choose various perks based on your stats as the game progresses. Combat is also similar to the previous games with the same ability to attack freely and to use your V.A.T.S. to slow down time and precisely target your opponent’s weak points. The only new features added are the addition of sprinting, and the ability to customize your weapons and settlements.

Environmentally, the game utilizes its brand new game engine to create graphics never before seen in a Fallout game. Fallout 3 is able to use textures and bump mapping to create a sense of depth that allows the player to immerse himself in the game. However, Fallout 4 can use more system resources, and as such, Bethesda has actually modeled all the tiny nuances of character and creature models, making them more realistic. Even the graphical changes can be seen in how the game itself renders fur and how the game lacks the greenish gloom that always seemed to be apparent in Fallout 3.

However, this game is not perfect. The faction questlines are incredibly similar in the way that they end with each ending for the factions ending with them allying or destroying the other factions. Also, seeing how Fallout 4 has a theme of your choices affecting the world around you, having such a minimal effect on the world for such a big decision seems fairly lazy. Secondly, the other characters you meet in the game still have fairly wooden facial animation, which takes from the immersion in the game.

Still, this game is incredibly fun to play and very enjoyable to look at. I would definitely recommend it to any fans of the action RPG genre of video games.

Currently, the game is $59.99 and is sold on Amazon and at most stores that sell video games.