As I got closer, another Radscorpion popped up. I pressed on, knowing a settlement was just up ahead. What happened next is a good illustration of why Bethesda’s games are special.
Endless bullets, grenades, and stimpacks later, it fell.
In Fallout 3 this would have been the end of it here the Radscorpion pursued relentlessly, nipping my health down, so I had to stand and fight. I hobbled onto a nearby branch, injecting a stimpack as it went mad with the claws, then I jumped off the other side and bravely ran away. Radscorpions never bothered me in Fallout 3, but here the first encounter was an epic – after an ominous rumbling it crashed out of the ground, stinging me to half health and crippling a leg. Wandering the Commonwealth, as the wasteland combining Boston and Massachusetts is now known, is a new experience in some ways: basic enemies have much better animations and smarter behaviours at least, but some are winningly reimagined. Upon returning to the surface 200 years later you see their idiotic skeletons, and it’s hard to care. A nuke is about to hit this town in seconds, there’s a fallout shelter 50 metres away, and people are standing with their kids doing what a handful of guards tell them. So a pre-war scene showing nuclear armageddon through ordinary eyes, and evacuation to the ‘Vault,’ is definitely new.īut the execution is so small-scale it lacks credibility: as you and your family walk past a checkpoint, the neighbours just stand by cycling through voice clips. The vibe of these games has always been 1950s futurism and period Americana (here with the added flair of a British-accented butlerbot called Codsworth), but explored many decades or centuries after the bombs have fallen.
After being introduced to the excellent character creation tool, where I sculpted a post-apocalyptic hero named Corbyn, you’re guided through some tinned conversation with your husband or wife in the sunny suburbia of Boston, 2077.
The opening briefly suggests a more unusual spin. Fallout 4 is one of the biggest releases of the year but it is an unusually musty game, a new experience that feels over-familiar. There is a point when tradition can turn into cliché or, even worse, into parody. “War never changes.” Fallout 4 begins with the go-to line of the series, before repeating it at the monologue’s close.
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