The vault has enough water in reserve to last them a 150 days, which means that the Vault Dweller must find and return a water chip in that time frame.Įventually the Vault Dweller finds the water chip in the ghoul city of Necropolis, but also learns of the existence of Super Mutants.

Unfortunately the water purification system of Vault 13 failed, and the Overseer sent out the Vault Dweller to find a new water chip. This particular Vault, #13, is located in Southern California, and was intended to remain shut for 200 years. The game puts the player in the shoes of the Vault Dweller, an inhabitant of one of a series of government fallout shelters referred to as Vaults. Atomic war was occasioned by 'Resource Wars' for petroleum and uranium. Taking place in the year 2161, the story of Fallout begins 84 years after a short but disastrous world war devastates the Earth and human society. Fallout 2 directly follows from the first, with an eighty year gap, and the other sequels take place in other parts of the United States. The game was well-received enough to lead to multiple sequels.

They can recruit AI-controlled helper NPCs along the way, who will assist in combat and provide other benefits. Often, they must rely on their wits and charisma than brute force and firepower. A vault dweller - a descendant of the people who took to one of the enormous fallout shelters before the nuclear apocalypse - is forced to head out into the toxic wastelands to find a water chip: a vital piece of Vault technology that keeps water purified and drinkable.įallout focuses on an open-world approach: though the player is tasked with finding the water chip as soon as possible, following leads from settlement to settlement, they can actually head in any direction and see what awaits them. Fallout is a 1997 post-apocalyptic PC/Mac RPG from Black Isle Studios and Interplay.

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