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| Fallout is a franchise of post-apocalyptic role-playing games created by Interplay Entertainment, subsequently purchased by Bethesda Softworks, which has owned the franchise since 2007. The first cohort of titles were released under the Interplay banner, including Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. After acquiring the franchise, Bethesda shifted the series to a 3D graphics and real-time combat style entirely, replacing the 2D isometric graphics and turn-based combat of some previous installments. Over the next 15 years to the current day, Bethesda has published four main titles including Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76.
Originally envisioned as a sequel to Wasteland using Steve Jackson's GURPS, Fallout eventually matured into something entirely its own, a mature post-nuclear setting with a retro-futuristic aesthetic, powered by the originally home-brewed SPECIAL system. Its unique visual identity draws on countless sources, from 1930s Art Deco, through 1950s Americana, to 80s and 90s classics like Mad Max or The City of Lost Children. The series also encompasses several spin-offs from the main role playing titles, including award-winning simulation game Fallout Shelter and several tabletop games including Fallout: The Board Game, Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, Fallout: Wasteland Warfare Roleplaying Game. In July 2020, it was confirmed that Amazon Studios had licensed the rights to a television series adaptation of the games. Kilter Films, in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks, will lead development. |
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The Fallout world is not quite our own. Somewhere along the way, it diverged. It's still recognizably our world, but with some changes. The Fallout world is historically divergent from ours and also is fundamentally different in terms of how science works. The base concept for the setting is 1950s World of Tomorrow after the bomb. This means that before the war, the Fallout world was more or less what the people of the 1950s thought things would be like in 2077.
The most important event in the Fallout setting was the Great War which happened on October 23, 2077. It lasted a very brief amount of time, but was unbelievably destructive. More energy was released in the early moments of that war than all previous conflicts combined. |
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... that Garl killed his father, the original Death-Hand, to claim control over the Khans? ... that it is impossible to beat ZAX at chess due to a bug? ... that the Vault Dweller made an appearance in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel? ... that the settlement of Megaton is constructed nearly entirely out of salvaged airplane parts from a nearby airfield? ... that the medical computer in Vault 8 can tell you about a secret for after you finish Fallout 2? ... that both Jared Gresham and Evan are named after real-life Fallout fans who passed away? ... that Fallout 76 is the first game in the series to feature archery? |
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