All Fallout games, ranked
23.04.2024 - 17:57
/ digitaltrends.com
/ Bandai Namco
/ Jesse Lennox
Who would’ve thought the post-apocalypse could be such a fun time? The Fallout franchise has taken the idea of a Mad Max–like future and not only made it into a wildly popular game franchise but also a hit TV series. The core franchise has been around since the late ’90s, and yet we’ve had only a handful of mainline entries in the series since it was revived by Bethesda with Fallout 3. With Starfield in the rearview mirror and the next Elder Scrolls title currently being the dev team’s focus, it could be close to another decade before we can set foot in the wasteland ourselves once again.
What better time, then, to look back at the franchise and rank all the games from best to worst?
Fallout: New Vegas
87 % M
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Genre Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)
Developer Obsidian Entertainment
Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment, 1C/Cenega, Bethesda Softworks
Release October 19, 2010 So much was stacked against
Fallout: New Vegas from being great. Obsidian had a mere 18 months to make the entire game, and while that time constraint did show in terms of bugs and stability, it didn’t hold back the quality of writing or depth of role-playing whatsoever. This makes a lot of sense when you consider many of the original creators of
Fallout had gone on to form Obsidian.
Years later, a combination of patches and fan mods has finally revealed just how impressive and dynamic the game is. To this day, few games are as open-ended in how they let you complete (and fail) quests. Fallout: New Vegas Trailer — E3 2010
Fallout
86 % M
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PC DOS, Mac
Genre Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Developer Black Isle Studios, The Omni Group
Publisher Interplay Entertainment, Edusoft, MacPlay
Release September 30, 1997 The second and third picks could swap places depending on who you ask because they’re so different in design, but we give the edge to the original
Fallout. Aside from introducing the entire world and lore of the universe, it also set the tone of dark humor that has carried on through the entire series since.
Gameplay-wise, the series began as an isometric turn-based RPG instead of the open-world RPG it would turn into. It is a bit more hardcore in terms of difficulty and managing items and your character, but very rewarding for the level of depth and variety of builds you are afforded. Fallout Intro Movie Related
- Sims 4 cheats: all cheat codes for PC, Xbox, PS4, PS5, and more
- The best Fallout 4 mods
- 10 best gaming monitors of 2024: tested and reviewed
Fallout 3
84 % M
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Genre Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)
Developer Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher Bethesda.