Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (1997) (VG)

Director:

Feargus Urquhart

Release Date:

15 November 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Action | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Set 80 years after a massive nuclear war, the player/character sets out from "The Vault" - a large, underground shelter...

Plot Keywords:

Vault | Shelter | Sledgehammer | Mutant | Cave

Cast

Charles Adler	...	Harold (voice) (as Charlie Adler)
Richard Dean Anderson	...	Mayor Killian Darkwater (voice)
Jeff Bennett	...	Loxley (voice)
Clancy Brown	...	Rhombus (voice)
Jim Cummings	...	Set / Gizmo / The Master (voice)
Keith David	...	Decker (voice)
Brad Garrett	...	Harry (voice)
Tony Jay	...	The Lieutenant (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Jain (voice)
Kenneth Mars	...	Overseer (voice) (as Ken Mars)
Richard Moll	...	Cabbot (voice)
Ron Perlman	...	Narrator / Butch Harris (voice)
CCH Pounder	...	Vree (voice)
Pamela Adlon	...	Nichole (voice) (as Pamela Segall)
Tony Shalhoub	...	Aradesh (voice) (as Tony Shalub)

Also Known As:

Fallout (International: English title) (short title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:M

Company:

Interplay Productions

Trivia:

One of the random encounters when walking across the desert is a blue police box, standing in the middle of nowhere. It disappears when you approach it. This is a reference to "Doctor Who" (1963).

Quotes:

Vault Dweller: Uh, what service's do you offer, exactly?
Dan: Why, I manage the care for perddy much all of the Caravan's wagons and Brahmin in these parts. If they ever need anything for their caravans, I'm the one they talk to. Hell, the Big Three Deal with me exclusively.
Vault Dweller: Who are the Big Three?
Dan: Damn, son. Have ya' been locked up all yer life in a cave or somethin'? The Big Three are the three largest Merchant groups in the world. Well, okay, maybe not the world, but they sure as hell cover a large portion; 'bout as far as yer eye can see.
Vault Dweller: Damn yourself, you brahmin freak.
Dan: Brahmin freak? Is that an attempt at insult'n me? I would be a little more polite to he people ya' meet stranger. I could care less, but this city is filled with all sorts of cutthroats that wouldn't hesitate to slit yer throat if ya look at'm wrong.
Vault Dweller: Damn, you're one ugly son of a bitch!
Dan: Well at least I don't have a mutated hind for a face. Yer mother must have been a brahmin and yer daddy a ra; that's the only way ya' could have come out so damn ugly. Hell yer uglier than me!
Vault Dweller: No one talks about my mother like that! Prepare to die!
Dan: Yeah right, that's an okay line, but everyone uses it. Yer kiddin' right? Ya' wouldn't lay a hand on poor ol' Dan.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References "The Simpsons: Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy (#6.10)" (1994)

Soundtrack:

Maybe

Brilliant.

I must say that I was never big into RPG games, but I must say that this was great. Like with no-other game, you pick the storyline, if you want to be a bad guy and kill innocent people, blackmail them, and rob them. You can be also a good guy, and kill bad guys for fun or/and money. A vast selection of weapons, ranging from a Air Gun to a Gatling Gun or a Rocket Launcher. Bartering with people for goods (or rob them) is a good feature. Also, like with the sequel, and Kingpin: Life Of Crime, you can get NPC's (Non-Playing-Characters) to join you to clean up the deserts of South California. The plot goes as follows; you have 150 days to get a new water chip for you underground vault, and you go around wandering the radioactive deserts of California in the 22nd century. However, the isometric view can be quite dull, but you get used to it eventually.

Overall, a 9.5 out of 10 for this excellent game.