The Fallout TV show treads the best path a video game adaptation can take
Video game adaptations are now, officially, big business. It’s been hit-or-miss for years, to be fair – for every >Detective Pikachu there’s an >Assassin’s Creed, just as in the 90s Mortal Kombat and Super Mario Bros released practically side-by-side.
But the ratio of good-to-bad is shifting; more and more creative houses ‘get it’, and are treating gaming properties with the respect they so richly deserve. It’s a good time to be a fan of video games who is also interested in seeing their favorite characters and worlds replicated in other mediums.
Let’s cut to the chase. The >Fallout TV show is really rather good. It does the two things that it needs to do incredibly well; be satisfying to fans of the games with knowledge of Fallout’s world and lore, and stands alone perfectly well as its own self-enclosed story – a perfect first introduction for Fallout fans.
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Broken Roads review: this Fallout-style RPG is Vegemite and (some) magic
Drop Bear Bytes, the studio behind post-apocalyptic >RPG >Broken Roads, are named after Australia’s deadliest creature. The Drop Bear might look like a normal koala, but they’re actually dangerous predators, fond of jumping from trees to maul unsuspecting chumps who forget to take adequate precautions, like urinating on themselves. Really, the story is a wind-up the aussies like >to blag tourists with. If it looks like a koala, it’s just a koala. But it’s this sort of character, inspired by love for Australia’s unique landscape, culture and good-natured mick-taking, that forms the heart of the best bits in Broken Roads. I say ‘best bits’, but I should probably say ‘the only bits that I actually enjoyed’, unfortunately.
Bombs wiped out 80% of Australia’s population, and left the remaining nail-hard Nancys and tough Tobiases to fend for themselves in a world short of resources, but shockingly plentiful in both guns and pre-made Vegemite sarnies. You’ll pick one of four character classes – I went with ‘Jackaroo’ (cattle hand), because it was called ‘Jackaroo’ – before tackling a short tutorial section. You’ll then be thrust into some events, where you’ll meet the rest of your starting party and kick off the game proper.
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The Fallout TV show has revived an ancient argument about Vault Boy’s thumb
Last week I went to a screening of Amazon and Bethesda’s Fallout TV show, a spin-off yarn starring Ella Purnell (who voiced Jinx in the Arcane Netflix adaptation) as a recently surfaced Vault Dweller, scouring the irradiated wastelands for [SPOILERS REDACTED]. It’s early days, but the show’s first two episodes didn’t make a massive impression on me, though I will concede that the sight of Amazon’s branding on Fallout’s infamous Please Stand By emergency broadcast titlecard makes a dangerous amount of sense.
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New Helldivers 2 Democratic Detonation Warbond release date, time countdown – when does it come out?
Expected release date and time countdown for when the new Helldivers 2 Democratic Detonation Warbond will come out.
Helldivers 2 player shares tip to not lose Samples
Doing this could stop you losing your Samples while in battle.
