Fallout (1997 Video Game)
I spent hours playing this.
7 July 2003
Warning: Spoilers
I could not get enough of this RPG. It's just beautifully crafted, intelligent, fun and very challenging. It will take up a lot of your time. Seriously, it is impossible for any sitting to last less than 45 minutes at least! As the title suggests, a nuclear fallout has occurred. Eighty years later, the inhabitants of an underground survival vault designate you as the chosen one, who must go to the surface wasteland on a mission. You can select from a wide variety of skills, and experience points are awarded for battles and exploring. Not only do you have your main objective, but there's a lot to do here in side quests.

*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* I love the beginning of the game with the Inkspots singing "Maybe" and you see black and white pictures of nuclear explosions, those 50's future advertisements with the 'ad guy'; it just sets the perfect atmosphere. While fiction, numerous aspects of this game seem hauntingly and realistically possible. You meet up with different people like gangs, and can constantly upgrade to better weapons. After you finished killing someone, you can take items from their bodies which is great. It's fun to have other characters in your party but they die so easily especially later on when you've grown really strong.

Great game, great concept.
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