Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
As a spinoff, Brotherhood of Steel's gameplay greatly differs from that of other Fallout games. The gameplay is linear, not open-world. Instead of being able to travel freely across a broad world full of…
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Interplay, released 13 January 2004 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Interplay and released in 2004. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on Dark Alliance Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Immediately prior to Brotherhood of Steel, the three playable characters (Cain, Cyrus, and Nadia) have joined the Brotherhood as new Initiates. After selecting which character to play as (hereafter referred to as the Initiate), the game opens with the Initiate searching for missing Paladins in the nearby town of Carbon.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Fallout series
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is the fifth of 56 entries we hold in the Fallout series. It arrived 3 years after Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. The next entry was Fallout Trilogy in 2006. Its critic score of 53 is 19 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition at 92.
How it was received
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 17 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel launched on 13 January 2004, within three weeks of Pokémon FireRed Version, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Pokémon LeafGreen Version and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Pokémon FireRed Version, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Pokémon LeafGreen Version, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II.
Official trailer
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