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Never played Fallout?
Fallout: Into the Wasteland
Fallout is an old, classic RPG game in which, as you probably guessed, the story takes place after a nuclear war ravaged the United States and all of the world. Due to lasting radiations, some survivors reside in vaults.
In such a world, surviving is all what matters. Clusters of people are grouping together to survive, and they don't mind everyone else.
The background story of Fallout (the first of the series) involves a "what-if" scenario in which the history of the United States in the game diverges from reality following World War II. The federal government organizes the states into 13 commonwealths to try and ensure economic stability, but this only divides the U.S. as the commonwealths put their own ambitions before those of the nation as a whole. Tensions rise worldwide over the next century due to an increasing energy crisis caused by the rapid exhausting of petroleum reserves, leading to a war between Europe and the Middle East in 2052 as Middle Eastern countries drastically raise oil prices. In 2066, China invades the U.S. at Alaska for resources, and in 2077, the war reaches its climax with a devastating nuclear exchange between the two opposing countries, resulting in the post-apocalyptic world in which the game takes place. The exchange, lasting only hours, became known as the Great War; it is left unknown which side launched the first missile.
Before the nuclear exchange took place, great underground Vaults were constructed across America, supposedly to protect the populace from the dangers of radiation. Although over 400,000 would be needed to protect the entire nation, only 122 were constructed. This is because the Vaults were not intended to save humanity; rather, they were social experiments being conducted by the United States government. Most vaults featured some variable to test how certain things influence people (and presumably the personal characteristics of the vault's occupants).
Each installment of the series takes these facts as the context to the subsequent adventures: much of the landscape the player travels through is scarred with wreckage as well as radiation. These effects are not limited to the environment. Mutated survivors - those who lived through the attack outside a vault - are often physically unrecognizable as human. Even livestock, mostly represented by cows known as "brahmin," are rarely if ever seen with fewer than two heads.
The vaults were officially designed by the Vault-Tec Corporation as public bomb shelters capable of supporting up to 1000 people; each was equipped with water purification and food production machines, allowing the inhabitants to survive indefinitely within the vaults in the event of a nuclear war. Unofficially, however, the vaults were also large scale sociological experiments. For example, one vault had only inhabitants under 15 years of age, another had a completely male population, another was designed to open six months after sealing, and so on. Most vaults were designed in the same three-level layout, and with the exception of Vault 0, contained the entrance and medical center on Level 1; general housing for the vault's inhabitants on Level 2; and the vault command center, library, recreational room and storage lockers on Level 3, the lowest level. Each vault had an Overseer, a person who acted as the leader of the vault. His/her workstation was an elevated platform, equipped with two miniguns and various controls.
Fallout 1
Fallout 2
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And now, after years of waiting, a sequel will be out this month.
(Taken from Wikipedia)
Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game currently under development by Bethesda Game Studios. It will be the third major game in the Fallout series, which has also spawned the spin-offs Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. The setting of Fallout 3 will take place in the year 2277, 36 years after the setting of Fallout 2 and 200 years after the nuclear war that devastated the game's world. The game will be released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2008, and in Japan on December 4, 2008.
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Fallout: Into the Wasteland
Fallout is an old, classic RPG game in which, as you probably guessed, the story takes place after a nuclear war ravaged the United States and all of the world. Due to lasting radiations, some survivors reside in vaults.
In such a world, surviving is all what matters. Clusters of people are grouping together to survive, and they don't mind everyone else.
Background
(Taken from Wikipedia)
The background story of Fallout (the first of the series) involves a "what-if" scenario in which the history of the United States in the game diverges from reality following World War II. The federal government organizes the states into 13 commonwealths to try and ensure economic stability, but this only divides the U.S. as the commonwealths put their own ambitions before those of the nation as a whole. Tensions rise worldwide over the next century due to an increasing energy crisis caused by the rapid exhausting of petroleum reserves, leading to a war between Europe and the Middle East in 2052 as Middle Eastern countries drastically raise oil prices. In 2066, China invades the U.S. at Alaska for resources, and in 2077, the war reaches its climax with a devastating nuclear exchange between the two opposing countries, resulting in the post-apocalyptic world in which the game takes place. The exchange, lasting only hours, became known as the Great War; it is left unknown which side launched the first missile.
Before the nuclear exchange took place, great underground Vaults were constructed across America, supposedly to protect the populace from the dangers of radiation. Although over 400,000 would be needed to protect the entire nation, only 122 were constructed. This is because the Vaults were not intended to save humanity; rather, they were social experiments being conducted by the United States government. Most vaults featured some variable to test how certain things influence people (and presumably the personal characteristics of the vault's occupants).
Each installment of the series takes these facts as the context to the subsequent adventures: much of the landscape the player travels through is scarred with wreckage as well as radiation. These effects are not limited to the environment. Mutated survivors - those who lived through the attack outside a vault - are often physically unrecognizable as human. Even livestock, mostly represented by cows known as "brahmin," are rarely if ever seen with fewer than two heads.
Vaults
The vaults were officially designed by the Vault-Tec Corporation as public bomb shelters capable of supporting up to 1000 people; each was equipped with water purification and food production machines, allowing the inhabitants to survive indefinitely within the vaults in the event of a nuclear war. Unofficially, however, the vaults were also large scale sociological experiments. For example, one vault had only inhabitants under 15 years of age, another had a completely male population, another was designed to open six months after sealing, and so on. Most vaults were designed in the same three-level layout, and with the exception of Vault 0, contained the entrance and medical center on Level 1; general housing for the vault's inhabitants on Level 2; and the vault command center, library, recreational room and storage lockers on Level 3, the lowest level. Each vault had an Overseer, a person who acted as the leader of the vault. His/her workstation was an elevated platform, equipped with two miniguns and various controls.
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Fallout 1
Fallout 2
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And now, after years of waiting, a sequel will be out this month.
Fallout 3
(Taken from Wikipedia)
Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game currently under development by Bethesda Game Studios. It will be the third major game in the Fallout series, which has also spawned the spin-offs Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. The setting of Fallout 3 will take place in the year 2277, 36 years after the setting of Fallout 2 and 200 years after the nuclear war that devastated the game's world. The game will be released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2008, and in Japan on December 4, 2008.
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Spoilers are to be inside spoiler tags.