If you’ve never played Fallout (or The Elder Scrolls, for that matter), then you’re about to have your mind blown. Oh, there’s even more here, even if you’ve got hundreds of hours already invested in Bethesda’s library. Now, if you’ve ever played a game by Bethesda, then you’ve got a headstart on just how densely packed and nutrient-rich this game world is. There’s a layer cake 10 stories tall of interplaying game systems and mechanics that make up Fallout 4.
But stopping there in your description would qualify you for an 'Understatement of the Year' award. From there, living legend game director Todd Howard and his team in Maryland applied their open-world formula-made famous by The Elder Scrolls series of role-playing games-and turned the Fallout series from a respectable classic into a global phenomenon.įallout 4 is a role-playing game. It was Fallout 3 in 2008, however, that handed the property over to developer Bethesda Softworks.