Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
The Vault Dweller is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California in order to retrieve a water chip to replace the broken chip of Vault 13, their home, which they are the first person to ever leave. The…
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Black Isle Studios, released 10 October 1997 on DOS, Linux, Mac and OnLive Game System. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Black Isle Studios and released in 1997. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on DOS, Linux, Mac, OnLive Game System and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Fallout Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are open world, science fiction, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Fallout series
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is the first of 56 entries we hold in the Fallout series. The next entry was Fallout 2 in 1998.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 50 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium 90Mhz or faster, 16 MB of RAM and SVGA. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game launched on 10 October 1997, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto, Resident Evil: Director's Cut, Ultima Online and Frogger.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto, Resident Evil: Director's Cut, Ultima Online, Frogger.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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