Starting out as a revenge tale before veering into less overdone territory, the plot is solid, easy to follow, and satisfying. The main plot arc revolves around the player character searching to reconnect with their lost child after emerging from this cold sleep. Locked in a cryo pod, the only thing the player experiences for two hundred years is a brief period of consciousness, just long enough to witness the murder of their spouse and abduction of their infant son. In the case of Vault 111, the experiment was intended to determine how dwellers would respond to having been placed in cryogenic stasis for the duration of a nuclear catastrophe, which is where the player soon finds themselves. In reality, they are a massive undertaking of social experiments performed by the Vault-Tec Corporation to determine humanity’s resilience when faced with various forms of crisis. The player character is one of the adult members, either the mother or father, of a typical nuclear family in a suburban community, forced to evacuate to the safety of an underground shelter, designated Vault 111.Ĭontrary to the hype, Vaults are not the comfortable continuation of normal American life they promise. As the game begins, the military conflict known as The Great War is on the verge of ending civilization. The fifth title in the main series, it introduces players to a previously unexplored region of the United States in the post-nuclear wasteland, The Commonwealth, located in the area surrounding Boston, Massachusetts. Review copy provided by publisher.įallout 4 is the latest installment in the venerable role-playing franchise revived by Bethesda in 2003. Available on PC, PS4 (reviewed), and Xbox One. Developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
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