Gameplay in Fallout centers around the game world, visiting locations and interacting with the local inhabitants. Occasionally, inhabitants will be immersed in dilemmas which the player may choose to solve in order to acquire karma and experience points. Fallout deviates from most role-playing video games in that it often allows for the player to complete tasks in multiple ways, often choosing solutions that are unconventional or even contrary to the original task, in which case the player may still be rewarded. The player’s actions may ultimately dictate the ending of the game, or what future story or gameplay opportunities are available.
As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home.
Key Features:
Do whatever you want in a massive open world with hundreds of locations, characters, and quests. Join multiple factions vying for power or go it alone, the choices are all yours.
Be whoever you want with the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. character system. From a Power Armored soldier to the charismatic smooth talker, you can choose from hundreds of Perks and develop your own playstyle.
An all-new next generation graphics and lighting engine brings to life the world of Fallout like never before. From the blasted forests of the Commonwealth to the ruins of Boston, every location is packed with dynamic detail.
Intense first or third person combat can also be slowed down with the new dynamic Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System (V.A.T.S) that lets you choose your attacks and enjoy cinematic carnage.
Collect, upgrade, and build thousands of items in the most advanced crafting system ever. Weapons, armor, chemicals, and food are just the beginning – you can even build and manage entire settlements.
Fallout Key Features:
1, Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Fallout is set in the timeline which deviated from our own some time after World War II, and where technology, politics and culture followed a different course. In the 21st century, a worldwide conflict is brought on by global petroleum shortage. Several nations begin warring with one another for the last of non-renewable resources, namely oil and uranium; known as the Resource Wars, fighting begins in April 2052 and ends in 2077. China invades Alaska in the winter of 2066, causing the United States to go to war with China and using Canadian resources to supply their war efforts, despite Canadian complaints. Eventually the United States violently annexes Canada in February 2076 and reclaims Alaska nearly a year later. After years of conflict, on October 23, 2077, a global nuclear war occurs. It is not known who strikes first, but in less than a few hours most major cities are destroyed. The effects of the war do not fade for the next hundred years and as a consequence, human society has collapsed leaving only survivor settlements barely able to make out a living in the barren wasteland, while a few live through the occurrence in underground fallout shelters known as Vaults. One of these, Vault 13, is the protagonist's home, where the game begins.
In Vault 13, in 2161 in Southern California, 84 years after the nuclear war. The Water Chip, a computer chip responsible for the water recycling and pumping machinery, breaks. The Vault Overseer tasks the protagonist, the Vault Dweller, with finding a replacement. He or she is given a portable device called the "Pip-Boy 2000" that keeps track of map-making, objectives, and bookkeeping. Armed with the Pip-Boy 2000 and meager equipment, including a small sum of bottle caps which are used as currency in the post-apocalyptic world, the main character is sent off on the quest.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Pentium 90Mhz or faster | Intel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent |
| VRAM | 64 MB | 128 MB |
| RAM | 16 MB | 8 GB RAM |
| OS | Windows | Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required) |
| Graphics Card | SVGA | NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent |
| Direct X | Any DirectX | 9.0c |
| SOUND CARD | DirectSound or SoundBlaster Compatible | DirectX Compatible |
| HDD Space | 565 MB | 30 GB available space |
None of the latter titles under the Fallout series has had me feel so connected to my vault. On my jumpsuit to the halloween party it would most defenitely say “13” on the back. It’s difficult to review this game alone, since Fallout2 was released only short after this title and made the original seem like a mere demo of Fallout2. But it was after all Fallout that built the entire Fallout universe and it did just that in the most perfect ways. It felt like a real game, whatever implicated nonsense I could mean by saying just that, and yet it really felt like your in-game choices mattered all thoughout as the most eminent story progressed.
As an old vet of playing pen-and-paper rpg’s in my youth, I am also much aware that few others could appreciate the experience of Fallout as much as I have done. But with every attention of theirs to the details (apart from a few glitches, obviously) and truly a genre of its’ own when it comes to in-game comedy, I might forever hold Fallout on my top list of all times. Still, there were a few glitches and if you don’t have the energy to read text this is seriously not your type of play.