The ongoing success of the Fallout TV show has fuelled renewed interest in the Fallout games ever since it hit Prime Video, and now Bethesda has confirmed just how big an impact it’s made.
16.04.2024 - 22:11 / gamerant.com / Jonathan Nolan / Lisa Joy
Amazon’s highly anticipated Fallout television series premiered on the Prime video streaming service on April 10. The entire first season dropped at once and the show has received exuberant reviews by many fans of the games. Fans have been catching references to the games left and right, and a new one has been highlighted.
Based on one of the biggest franchises in gaming, fans have speculated about a live-action Fallout adaptation for years, raising high expectations for the new series produced by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy of Westworld fame. The series has received praise from ardent Fallout fans, as well as from casual fans with little to no knowledge of the franchise. It’s a difficult knife’s edge balancing act to please both parties that the TV series has seemingly pulled off.
In a show filled to the brim with references to the games, Twitter user NoSleepCosplay has shared that the TV series features their work (pictured below) in a cameo in episode 2 of season 1. The moment happens shortly after the show’s protagonist, Vault Dweller Lucy (Ella Purnell), departs the vault for the hostile wasteland environment outside. She stares at a broken-down assaultron model half-buried in the sand, a sign of the unforgiving wilderness to come, before pressing further on.
The assaultron is a deadly model of robot designed for combat that first appeared in Fallout 4. This marks the first and (so far) only appearance of one in the TV series. The defunct assaultron, lovingly named MOX-13 by the cosplayers, was not too heavily modified for the show, even featuring the design’s original “Nukelanta” sticker. The cosplay account also shared that executives from the TV series reached out to them to ask for the assaultron’s use in the show.
Despite being the only assaultron sighting in the live-action Fallout adaptation, the moment is important as a signifier of the harsh and alien landscape that Lucy will be subjected to. Her character grows up sheltered from the outside world, marking this robot as foreboding to her on her journey of discovery. It also potentially serves as a tease for functioning assaultrons in the show’s future, though this has not yet been confirmed. Still, it would make much more sense than a one-off appearance of the technology that is never seen again.
Among the other references, this cameo in particular shows how much the show’s creators care about the Fallout franchise and its fans. Rather than just providing its own version of the assaultron, creatives reached out to impassioned fans to collaborate and feature their work in an official, canonized Fallout television series. Hopefully the showrunners will continue to foster this connection with fans even further into new seasons of the hit
The ongoing success of the Fallout TV show has fuelled renewed interest in the Fallout games ever since it hit Prime Video, and now Bethesda has confirmed just how big an impact it’s made.
Amid the success of the Fallout TV show, Fallout video games are enjoying a resurgence in popularity. The player boost is so significant that even NexusMods is struggling to cope.
As expected following the glowing reception, Amazon has renewed the Fallout TV series for a second season.
Warning: Fallout season one spoilers ahead!
The recently released and critically acclaimed Fallout TV show on Amazon Prime has been renewed for a second season already.
Amazon's live adaptation of Fallout was so well-received, the fourth main game in the franchise had a resurgence in sales almost a decade after it was released. If you were ever worried about its fate despite the success it enjoyed, you can rest easy, for now: Amazon has already renewed the show for a second season, mere days after the first one debuted. The Fallout universe is set in a post-apocalyptic world, decades after a nuclear war decimated the planet. Ella Purnell plays Lucy in the series, a vault dweller who was forced to go to the surface to rescue her father.
Amazon Prime's Fallout TV show has been renewed for a second season.
In a surprise to no one, Amazon's Fallout TV series has been officially renewed for a second season.
The release of Amazon's adaptation of Fallout has sparked a resurgence in the series and increased focus on the alt-history that binds it all together. Some fans recently raised concerns that events in the TV show seemingly retconned the events of the black sheep of the Fallout family, New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Entertainment. Vague spoilers for New Vegas and Amazon's show to follow!
Fallout season 2 is officially a go at Amazon Prime.
By now, you’ve probably heard that the Amazon Fallout show is accurate to the video games, down to the last detail. In fact, Fallout: New Vegas happened in this universe, and they’re all part of one big Fallout continuity.
The Fallout TV show is stim-packed full of easter eggs and treats for fans of the games. From obvious crowd-pleasers like the Brotherhood of Steel’s T60 armour and the New Vegas skyline to smaller blink-and-you-’ll-miss-it glimpses of Radaway and Fancy Lads Snack Cakes, there was plenty plucked from the long-running RPG series to get excited about. Bethesda has crafted such dense and plentiful worlds, though, that there's still a plethora of characters, creatures, quests, and locations left to be brought to life in the Prime Video series. So here are 14 things we’d love to see from the games in Fallout season 2.