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Overall Rank: 1604
Average Rating: 4/5
# of Ratings: 1
US Release Date: 09/30/1997
Platform: PC (Steam)
Genres: Role Playing (RPG) (Turn-Based RPG)
ESRB Rating: M
Multiplayer: No
Developer: Black Isle Studios
Publisher: Interplay Entertainment
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Remember When ‘Fallout’ Was an RPG?
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/09/2013
At the dawn of the 5th Generation of console hardware, the PCRPG world was undergoing drastic evolution, lead largely by publisher Interplay. On one hand we had the Canadian startup BioWare producing “Baldur’s Gate,” which would set the quality bar for PCRPGs for decades. On the other hand, we had California-based Black Isle Studios working on an entirely new RPG series NOT based on Dungeons & Dragons: “Fallout.”
Being a D&D fanatic who only grudgingly suffered through the technical frustration of playing PC games at the time, I had heard of “Fallout,” but without a D&D setting (indeed, a post-nuclear setting sounded incredibly weird and unappealing at the time) I decided to give it a pass. With the RPG genre suffering mightily on both consoles and PC throughout the 7th …
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