Fallout. It’s a series of games about what happens when someone pushes that big red button to drop the nukes, damning an alternate timeline version of humanity to spend an eternity doing fun little quests among the rubble. Within that, there’s scope for some of the best RPG fun you can get, no matter what kind of fun it is that you’re looking for in an RPG.
We’ve all thought about what’d happen if the bombs were to actually fall, and since 1997, first Interplay and Black Isle, now Bethesda – with some help from Obsidian and now Amazon, have offered us a chance to see just how we might fare if forced to roam the radioactive streets of post-apocalyptic America. The answer in reality is that we’d all probably die very quickly, but hey, that’s what video games are for – to give us a chance to dream.
But, which of the Fallouts is the best? It’s a loaded question for sure, an one you’ll end up answering differently depending on what you want out of a Fallout game. However, because the terrifying beast that pulls the strings of our world has yanked it in a direction where things need to be ranked on websites, here’s our attempt to do just that for the Fallout series, both main-line entries and all the spin-offs that’re actually worth caring about.
