You’ll deal with familiar groups, including the technology-obsessed Brotherhood of Steel, as well as new entities, like the mysterious and feared Institute. This directive pulls you across the entirety of post-war Boston, an area known as The Commonwealth, and, in typical Fallout fashion, into a story that expands to encompass more than just your personal struggle. At the outset, you have only one goal: find your kidnapped son. You play as a civilian turned vault dweller, literally frozen in time via cryogenic stasis, only to awaken hundreds of years later in this terrible future. I still spent dozens of hours tweaking my guns and killing feral ghouls, but this time, it felt like I was doing it for a reason.įallout 4 actually starts before the war.
For the first time I really cared about what happened in the story, and found myself struggling with its moral dilemmas. What Fallout 4 adds to the series is heart. The game also features the series’ infamous technical problems, with frustrating glitches and bugs that often pull you out of the experience at best, and at worst, lose hard-won progress.īut all of that - the world, the characters, even the bugs - are table setting at this point. Fallout 4 still takes place in a huge open world, provides you with an incredible amount of freedom with which to customize your character, and throws you into dangerous scenarios cast with immoral baddies. Fundamentally, it’s not that different from Fallout 3, the game that transformed the series from an isometric RPG to a first-person shooter / role-playing hybrid. War never changes, and hope never really disappears.įallout 4, the latest game in the series and the first since New Vegas in 2010, shows off this duality more than any predecessor. Hope resides in Fallout’s 1950’s retro-futurism, an alternate timeline where humankind was on the precipice of a technological revolution that would improve life across the planet - only to be squashed by warheads. Hope comes from trying to not just live in this awful place, but thrive. On one hand, you have a role-playing game set during a horrific future in which nuclear war has decimated the population, forcing humans to become scavengers, fighting to survive alongside mutants and monsters.
The Fallout games are collision points of two disparate forces. A radioactive scorpion could attack at any moment, sure, but when Billie Holiday is in your ears, the end of the world doesn’t seem so bad. There’s nothing quite like listening to “Crazy He Calls Me” as the sun rises over an abandoned highway.
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