| Fallout (franchise) | |
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| Genres | Role-playing game |
| Developers | Interplay, Black Isle Studios, Bethesda Softworks, Obsidian Entertainment |
| Publishers | Interplay, Bethesda |
| Notable Individuals | J.E. Sawyer, Ron Perlman |
| First Release | September 30, 1997 |
| “ | War...war never changes.
— The Narrator
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Fallout is a classic Western Role-Playing Game series created by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay, and a spiritual successor to Interplay's classic Wasteland series, and helmed by Tim Cain. The series began with 1997's Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role-Playing Game to immediate critical and commercial success. As Interplay's financial troubles escalated, the series was shopped out to multiple other teams for spin-offs in multiple other genres- including a Tactics Strategy game, a third-person console shooter, and plans for a canceled MMO.
The franchise was revived when the rights to the name were purchased by Bethesda Softworks, who developed and published Fallout 3, a new title largely divorced from the setting and characters of the original series. The remnants of the original team, now a stand-alone team named Obsidian Entertainment, were contracted out to create another title in the series, and released Fallout: New Vegas as a direct follow up to the first two games. After a controversy with payment over the performance of New Vegas, Bethesda has retained exclusive control of the series- releasing the controversial releases Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.
A spiritual successor to the series, created by Obsidian, The Outer Worlds was launched in 2019.
Main Games[]
- Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role-Playing Game (1997)
- Fallout 2 (1998)
- Fallout 3 (2008)
- Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
- Fallout 4 (2015)
Spin-off Games[]
- Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (2001)
- Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (2004)
- Fallout Shelter (2015)
- Fallout 76 (2018)