GAME CHANGER
RELEASE November 11, 2015 DEVELOPER Bethesda Game Studios PUBLISHER Bethesda Softworks LINK beth.games/3YMV18O
A staggering eight years ago, Fallout 4 was released. Its developer, Bethesda, made the swap back to the rusty post-apocalypse after having launched what would become one of the most influential open world RPGs of all time, Skyrim, just three years before. In many ways, Fallout 4 is a sequel to both Skyrim and Fallout 3. It refines the expansive structure of the fantasy setting by rooting it in the familiar, real world locations of the ruined American setting. It begins before the bombs fall, in an intro sequence that whiffs an attempt to ground your character in its fascinating world.
You’re already awake and staring at the bathroom mirror in the first ten minutes of Fallout 4. This comes immediately after a narrated autobiography of Nate,’s male’s parody of 1950s suburban life in its Tranquility Lane mission.