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Fallout is a series of computer role-playing games produced and published by Interplay. Although set in and after the 22nd century, its story and artwork are heavily influenced by the post-world war II nuclear paranoia of the 1950s. The series is sometimes considered to be an unofficial sequel to Wasteland, but it could not use that title as Electronic Arts held the rights to it, and, except for minor references, the games are set in separate universes. There were two role-playing titles in the series (Fallout and Fallout 2), one squad-based tactical combat spinoff (Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel) and one action dungeon-crawler for PlayStation 2 and Xbox (Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel). A sequel, Fallout 3, is currently being developed by Bethesda Softworks. Bethesda owns the rights to make Fallout games, although Interplay retained the right to publish a massively multiplayer online role-playing game version of Fallout. In 2001, PC Gamer named Fallout and Fallout 2 as the fourth best computer game of all time. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Interplay Entertainment Corporation was an American video game and computer game publisher and developer. ... Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... The party explores a farm in Wasteland. ... EA redirects here. ... See Fallout series for the series as a whole. ... m Fallout 2 is a computer role-playing game published by Interplay in 1998. ... PS2 redirects here. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft, first released on November 15, 2001 in North America, then released on February 22, 2002 in Japan, and on March 14, 2002 in Europe. ... Fallout 3 is a role-playing game currently under development by Bethesda Softworks. ... Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media Company, is a developer and publisher of computer and video games. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with History of MMORPGs. ... PC Gamer US April 2005 cover PC Gamer is a computer games magazine founded in 1993. ...

Storyline

The background story of Fallout involves a "what-if" scenario in which the United States tries to devise fusion power resulting in a hegemonic United States that has less reliance on petroleum. However, this is not achieved until 2077, shortly after an oil drilling conflict off the Pacific Coast pits the United States against China. It ends with a nuclear exchange resulting in the post-apocalyptic world the game takes place in—although it is said in Fallout 2 that nobody knew who sent the first missile. In Fallout 2 one conversation train with the Skynet computer results in Skynet stating that the war may have started because computers with Artificial Intelligence may have grown bored. However, as the Skynet computer was a parody of the computer system of the same name in the movie "The Terminator", Skynet's claim may not be true. The Sun is a natural fusion reactor. ... Hegemony is the dominance of one group over other groups, with or without the threat of force, to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; or more broadly, that cultural perspectives become skewed to favor the dominant group. ... The Pacific Coast is any coast fronting the Pacific Ocean. ... Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... Skynet is a fictional computer network created by Cyberdyne Systems Corporation for Strategic Air Command-North American Aerospace Defense Command. ... The Terminator (also known as Terminator in some early trailers and posters) is a 1984 science fiction-action film featuring body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger in what would become his best-known role. ...

Before the nuclear exchange took place, 122 Vaults were constructed across America, supposedly to protect the populace from the dangers of radiation. Only 122 were constructed, however, while over 400,000 would be needed to protect the entire nation. This is because the Vaults were not intended to save humanity; rather, they were social experiments being conducted by the United States government. Most vaults featured some variable to test how certain things influence people, such as Vault 69, which contained 999 women and one man.

Games

Fallout

Released in 1997, Fallout is the spiritual successor to the 1988 hit Wasteland. The protagonist of the game is tasked with recovering a water chip to replace the chip that broke in his home, Vault 13. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic southern California, beginning in the year 2161. It was originally intended to run under the GURPS role-playing game system, but budget issues required the development of a new system, the SPECIAL System. Fallout's atmosphere and artwork are reminiscent of post-WWII America and the nuclear paranoia that was widespread at that time. Fallout box art This work is copyrighted. ... Fallout box art This work is copyrighted. ... See Fallout series for the series as a whole. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The party explores a farm in Wasteland. ... Southern California Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Southern California, sometimes abbreviated SoCal or colloquially, the Southland, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the U.S. state of California. ... The Generic Universal Role-Playing System, commonly known as GURPS is a form of a role-playing game (RPG) designed to adapt to any imaginary gaming environment. ... A role-playing game system is a set of game mechanics used in a role-playing game (RPG). ... The SPECIAL System is a character-creation scheme developed specifically for the Fallout franchise of computer role-playing games. ...

Fallout 2

Fallout 2 was released in 1998 using a slightly-modified form of the engine used in the original Fallout. Taking place 80 years after the original game, Fallout 2 centers around a descendent of the Vault-Dweller, the protagonist of Fallout. The player assumes the role of the Chosen One as he tries to save Arroyo, his village, after several years of drought. The game featured several improvements over the first game, including the ability to set attitudes of NPC party members and the ability to push people who are blocking doors Fallout 2 box art This work is copyrighted. ... Fallout 2 box art This work is copyrighted. ... m Fallout 2 is a computer role-playing game published by Interplay in 1998. ...

Van Buren

Van Buren was the code-name for Fallout 3 while it was in development at Interplay. It featured an improved engine, new locations, vehicles, and a modified version of the SPECIAL system. The story broke off from the Vault Dweller/Chosen One bloodline of the first two, and instead centered around a prisoner. The game started with him mysteriously appearing in a new jail that was under attack. Plans for the game included the ability to influence the various factions. The game was cancelled in December, 2003, when budget cuts forced Interplay to lay off the PC development team. Image File history File links Fallout_3_Logo. ... Image File history File links Fallout_3_Logo. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A stylised illustration of a modern personal computer A personal computer (PC) is usually a microcomputer whose price, size, and capabilities make it suitable for personal usage. ...

Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is in production Bethesda Softworks, who have announced that the game will use the engine from their previous work, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. No screenshots, concept art, or movies have been released, however. Fallout 3 may be published on several platforms. Fallout 3 is a role-playing game currently under development by Bethesda Softworks. ... Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media Company, is a developer and publisher of computer and video games. ... The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a game currently under development by Bethesda Softworks for the PC, Xbox 2, and Playstation 3. ...

Spin-offs

Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

Fallout Tactics was released in early 2001 to mixed reviews. Although it was given high scores by reviewers (PC Gamer gave it an 85%), many fans were disappointed by the game. Fallout Tactics focuses on tactical combat rather than role-playing; the new combat system included different modes, stances, and modifiers, but the player had no dialogue options. Most of the criticisms of the game came from its incompatibility with the story of the original two games, not from its gameplay. Tactics is the first Fallout game to not require the player to fight in a turn-based mode, and it is also the first to allow the player to customize the skills, perks, and combat actions of the rest of the party. Fallout Tactics includes a multi-player mode that allows players to compete against squads of other characters controlled by other players. Unlike the previous two games, which are based in California, Fallout Tactics takes place in the Midwest. Image File history File linksMetadata Fallout_Tactics_Box. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Fallout_Tactics_Box. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A turn-based game, also known as turn-based strategy, is a game where each participant plays in turn. ... The Midwest is a common name for a region of the United States of America. ...

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel became the first Fallout game for consoles when it was released in 2004. It follows an initiate in the Brotherhood of Steel who is given a suicidal quest to find several lost Brotherhood paladins. An action role-playing game, BoS is a significant break from the previous incarnations of the Fallout series, both gameplay and style wise. BoS takes place in three locations: The towns of Carbon and Los and a Vault. BoS also does not feature non-player characters who would accompany the player in combat. BoS is generally not considered to be canon due to its stark contrasts and outright contradictions with the storyline of Fallout and Fallout 2. BoS is the last Fallout game to be developed by Interplay. The game also features music from nu-metal bands, including Slipknot and Killswitch Engage, which stands in contrast to the music of the first two games. This music came from The Ink Spots and Louis Armstrong. Image File history File linksMetadata Fallout-_Brotherhood_of_Steel_Box. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Fallout-_Brotherhood_of_Steel_Box. ... The Atari 2600, Sony PSOne, Nintendo Gamecube, and Xbox 360 A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Action-RPG, or action role-playing game is a type of computer role-playing game which requires quick action or reflexes from the player. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Slipknot is a nine-piece American band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1990 and currently signed to Roadrunner Records. ... Killswitch Engage, sometimes known simply as Killswitch (or KSE), is a metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, USA. The bands current lineup includes Howard Jones as vocalist, Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel on guitars, Mike DAntonio on bass, and Justin Foley on drums. ... The Ink Spots were a popular American vocal group that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm & blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop. ... Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901[1] â€“ July 6, 1971) (also known by the nicknames Satchmo for satchel-mouth and Pops) was an American jazz musician. ...

Fallout: Warfare

Fallout: Warfare is a tabletop wargame based on the Fallout Tactics storyline, using a simplified version of the SPECIAL system. The rulebook was written by Christopher Taylor, and was available on the Fallout Tactics bonus CD, together with cut-out miniatures. Fallout: Warfare features five distinct factions, vehicles, four game types, and thirty-three different units. The rules only require ten-sided dice. The modifications to the SPECIAL system allow every unit a unique set of stats and give special units certain skills they can use, including piloting, doctor, and repair. A section of the Fallout: Warfare manual allows campaigns to be conducted using the Warfare rules. The game is currently available for free online from fansite No Mutants Allowed and several other sources. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (648x835, 303 KB) Summary Logo to the table top role playing game, Fallout: Warfare. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (648x835, 303 KB) Summary Logo to the table top role playing game, Fallout: Warfare. ... Wargaming can be one of number of ways of exploring the effects of warfare without actual combat. ... This article is about the designer of Fallout Dungeon Siege games, see: Chris Taylor. ... A fansite or fan site, is a website created and maintained by the fans or devotees interested in a celebrity or a particular cultural phenomenon. ...

Vaults

The vaults were originally designed as huge bomb shelters, but other than acting as a shelter, the vaults were also large scale sociologial experiments. For example, some vaults had only inhabitants under 15 years old. Most vaults were designed in the same three-level design, with the exception of Vault 0:

Each vault had an Overseer, a person who acted as the leader of the vault. His/her workstation was an elevated platform, equipped with two miniguns and various controls.

Vaults featured in the series

The control vault in the Enclave's Vault Experiment. It's inhabitants constructed Vault City upon coming out after receiving the all-clear signal (although it is unknown where the signal had originated.

This vault was located under the city of Bakersfield, now known as Necropolis. According to Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible, the Vault's door was designed never to close, which resulted in radiation penetrating the shelter and turning all inhabitants into ghouls. Bakersfield is the county seat of Kern County, California, in the United States. ...

The Vault fell into disrepair over the years, with only the water purification control computer working by 2161. In the fictional Star Trek universe, 2161 is the year in which the human, Andorian, Vulcan, Tellarite, and several other species align to form the United Federation of Planets. ...

Home of the protagonist of the first game, the vault suffers breakdown of water purification chip which the player must replace. This vault was intended as a control vault, which was supposed to contain 1,000 pure humans and stay closed until the all-clear was sent. The inhabitants would then be compared, as a control group, with inhabitants of other vaults and (possibly) used to repopulate the land.. The protagonist or main character is the central figure of a story. ...

Located near Vault 13, this vault was particularly reinforced against earthquakes and was home to 1,000 dwellers of radically different backgrounds, religions and ethnic groups, designed to study their interaction. In Fallout 1, the player finds it partially collapsed, as it's inhabitants fled and built the town of Shady Sands. It is said in-game that the vault came under attack, but no information about the attackers is given.

Nucleus of the vault network, this vault appeared only on Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. An army of robots was stored in this vault to "cleanse" the land once humans would surface from the vaults. Vault 0 was located in Cheyenne Mountain. It should be noted, however, that it's purpose and existence contradicts the storyline, as Vault 8 was the control Vault and hub for the Vault system, with the monitoring center located at the Enclave Oil Rig.. Cheyenne Mountain, a mountain located on the southwest side of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, is the location of a major United States military command base: Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (CMOC), formerly called Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station (CMAFS). ...

Mutations and their causes

According to the "Fallout Bible" (a series of documents answering questions from players by Fallout 2 designer Chris Avellone, who was not part of the original Fallout team), it is interesting to note that most of the mutations in Fallout and Fallout 2 are not because of radioactive fallout. According to the Fallout Bible, most of the mutations the player experiences are because of a pre-War biological serum, named the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV). Some players feel that this reliance on FEV paints the story with a genetic engineering theme that a 50s-viewpoint game should not have. Others, however, point to the fact that in the 1950s and early 1960s, radiation was viewed very similarly to the way that FEV was in Fallout and Fallout 2. However, in a later edition of the "Fallout Bible" Chris Avellone admitted that his attributing the mutations to FEV was a mistake, saying that almost all of the mutations were indeed caused by radiation. Chris Avellone is a computer game designer, formerly of Black Isle Studios, and is one of the founding members of Obsidian Entertainment. ... An iconic image of genetic engineering; this autoluminograph from 1986 of a glowing transgenic tobacco plant bearing the luciferase gene of the firefly, illustrating the possibilities of genetic engineering. ...

Influences

Fallout draws much from 50s pulp magazines, science fiction and superhero comic books. For example, computers use vacuum tubes instead of transistors; energy weapons exist and resemble those used by Flash Gordon. The Vault Dweller's main style of dress is a blue jumpsuit with a yellow line going down the center of the chest and along the belt area, though the main character's appearance changes while wearing armor. The number on the back might differ from the Vault the dweller represents, but it's usually "13", or in other cases, missing. Image File history File linksMetadata Bloody_Mess. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Bloody_Mess. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... Flynns Detective Fiction from 1941. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Batman and Superman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Flash Gordon is a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, first published on January 7, 1934. ... A woman in a ski jumpsuit (what could also be called a one-piece skisuit). ...

Fallout's menu interfaces are designed to resemble advertisements and toys of the same period; For example, the characters sheet cards and perks available, look like those of the board game Monopoly. The lack of this retro stylization was one of the things the Fallout spin-offs were criticized for, as retro-futurism is a hallmark of the Fallout series. In economics, a monopoly (from the Latin word monopolium - Greek language monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service. ... Retro-futurism, retrofuturism or retro-future (terms combining retro and futurism or future) can refer to two different yet not incompatible concepts: A return to, and an enthusiasm for, the depictions of the future produced in the first half of the 20th century, which often were based on a lack...

Fallout also draws minor influences from other sources. One of the initial armors available in the game is the one sleeved leather jacket, which bears a resemblance to the jacket worn by Mad Max in The Road Warrior. The armor featured on the cover of the game is powered armor, the most powerful (and rarest) armor in Fallout. The NPC Cassidy also says that he was named after a kick ass comic book character, a reference to the Irish vampire Proinsias Cassidy in the comic book Preacher. Mad Max is an Australian apocalyptic science fiction film starring Mel Gibson. ... Road Warrior redirects here. ... It has been suggested that the section Exoskeletons in modern and near-future technology from the article Exoskeleton be merged into this article or section. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this comics-related article may require cleanup. ... Preacher was a comic book series, created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, with painted covers by Glenn Fabry. ...

The Fallout games are famous for their Easter eggs. While the first game mostly had references to the 1950s and 1960s pop-culture (Doctor Who, Godzilla), in Fallout 2 there are many references to Star Trek, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Monty Python; Some fans of the first game argued that there are too many Easter eggs in the sequel and that they distract from the immersiveness of the game world. The first easter egg For the decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter holiday, see Easter egg. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... Godzilla, as portrayed during his latest film from the Millennium series. ... Star Trek is an American science-fiction franchise spanning six television series, ten feature films, hundreds of novels, computer and video games, and other fan stories. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... The Python team. ...

In Fallout, the player meets an NPC named Tycho, who mentions that he is a Desert Ranger and, under the right conditions, will talk of his grandfather, who told him about Fat Freddy. Fat Freddy is a character from Las Vegas in Wasteland, which implies that Tycho's grandfather was one of the PCs in Wasteland, who were named the Desert Rangers. Although the time frame of Wasteland is completely different from Fallout, and Fallout game designers deny that Fallout 1 or 2 takes place in the same universe as Wasteland, this is one of many references to the events and the style of Wasteland in the Fallout series, which is why Fallout is sometimes regarded as the spiritual successor to Wasteland. The party explores a farm in Wasteland. ...

The Fallout community

Most of the English-speaking Fallout fan community is focused on the two oldest functioning Fallout fansites - No Mutants Allowed, founded in 1997, and Duck and Cover, founded in 1998. The game is also popular in Central and Eastern European countries, such as Czech Republic (e.g. Fallout Skynet), Poland and Germany, as well as in Russia. One of the fans from these countries, the polish artist Adam EFC TurcZack, made a tribute to Fallout in the form of a song. Fallout is well-known in Brazil too, with serious fans communities, like Vault Of Broken Dreams. Vault BR members are translating the game to portuguese, and the work is almost done, having only a few dialog files left. A fansite or fan site, is a website created and maintained by the fans or devotees interested in a celebrity or a particular cultural phenomenon. ...

There are two major references to the Fallout fan community in the Fallout games themselves. One is a special encounter with Unwashed Villagers, an early fan community, in Fallout 2. They are depicted as a group of people attacking a spammer. In Fallout Tactics, there is a senile old man who urinates into other people's drinks, named "Roshambo" after a No Mutants Allowed admin, well-known for his distaste of the Fallout spin-offs and those who enjoy them. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Trivia

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External links

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Contents

Storyline

Games

Fallout

Fallout 2

Van Buren

Fallout 3

Spin-offs

Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

Fallout: Warfare

Vaults

Vaults featured in the series

Mutations and their causes

Influences

The Fallout community

Trivia

External links

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Games

Fallout

Fallout 2

Van Buren

Fallout 3

Spin-offs

Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

Fallout: Warfare

Vaults

Vaults featured in the series

Mutations and their causes

Influences

The Fallout community

Trivia

External links

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