Occasionally, inhabitants will be immersed in dilemmas which the player may choose to solve in order to acquire karma and experience points. GAMEPLAY: Game-play in Fallout centers around the game world, visiting locations and interacting with the local inhabitants. It was followed by a number of sequels and spin-off games, the Fallout series. The game was critically acclaimed and a financial success. It was initially intended to use Steve Jackson Games' system GURPS, but Interplay eventually used an internally developed system SPECIAL. The protagonist of Fallout is an inhabitant of a Vault, long-term shelters, who is tasked to find the Water Chip to save other dwellers from water shortage.įallout is considered to be the spiritual successor to the 1988 role-playing video game Wasteland.

The game has a post-apocalyptic and retro-futuristic setting, in the aftermath of a global nuclear war in an alternate history timeline mid-22nd century. Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is an open world role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Productions in 1997.