The game is causing the expected grumbling in the Fallout community, but for my part 1 certainly didn't expect so many of the hallmarks of Fallouts gameplay to be returning. It all leads up to the age of 19, when dad mysteriously disappears, the fabled rolling door is opened and you emerge clad in a familiar blue boiler suit under the glare of an unfamiliar sun. tests to determine personal skills and traits. What's more, every time you'll be subtly nudged into making vital decisions usually played out on a character-creation screen, and learning the way the game works.Īt birth, your father (played by Liam Neeson) will analyse your DNA and you'll choose stuff like gender and ethnicity on your 16th birthday, you'll take your G.O.A.T. To intensify the claustrophobic feeling within Vault 101, where your people have lived in confinement since the bombs began, the game begins at your birth, then fades in and out of your childhood.
Said seaboard includes a wrecked Washington DC, a place called Rivet City built inside the rotting hulk of an aircraft carrier and smaller places primed for nonexistence, such as the town of Megaton with its worshipped, unexploded nuclear bomb.
Even the part of this game before you come to the surface, with its wrecked Eastern seaboard, sounds like a slice of RPG genius.