Related: Fallout Lore Explained: Where Super Mutants Come From Decades later, after Fallout’s rights came to be owned by Bethesda, its original creator, Brian Fargo, returned to his first post-apocalyptic RPG franchise and produced Wasteland 2 and 3.
The creators of Wasteland were unable to retain the rights to their title, so they created Fallout to be stylistically and mechanically similar, while still being its own unique experience. Unfortunately, the series eventually strayed from what made the original so good.Ī little-known fact about Fallout is that it was a spiritual successor to a game called Wasteland that came out in 1988. There was just something about the world that Interplay Entertainment had crafted that was impossible to forget. Fallout set a new standard that kept players coming back for repeated playthroughs.
The original Fallout wasn’t the first isometric RPG, but it did make a major splash in the industry for avid gamers and casual players alike.
