



In the world of Fallout, the science fiction of the 1950s comes true and the world is full of serving robots, hover cars and other exciting technology. The Pentagon is used as the Brotherhood's Citadel and the player can visit the History Museum and other tourist attractions. The area between Capitol Hill and the Washington Monument is full of trenches and there are mutants everywhere, as well as soldiers of the Brotherhood of Steel. One of the most impressive settings in the games is certainly the destroyed Washington DC in Fallout 3. There are many puns based on pop-culture references, but the sight of this destroyed world with so many well known places in ruins is bound to make all players also a bit thoughtful. The Fallout series is at the same time very funny and terribly depressing. It was also influenced by the action movie Mad Max and the fear of nuclear war in the 1950s. The Fallout games were inspired by the 1988 game Wasteland 2, which is set in a similar environment. The games were originally developed by Interplay Entertainment, but the license was bought by Bethesda Game Studios 1 who developed the series since 2004. In the post-apocalyptic future of an alternate reality of the USA, the descendants of the survivors of a massive nuclear war try to make their living in the wastelands which are the remains of North America.įallout is a role-playing game series with action elements, which is set in an open world where the player can go wherever they want and explore. The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones. Too many humans, not enough space or resources to go around. The end of the world occurred pretty much as we had predicted.
