- Main
- 27
- hours
- Main + Extra
- 82
- hours
- Platinum
- 160
- hours
Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to the world of Fallout 4, their most ambitious game ever, and the next generation of open-world gaming. As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home.
About the story
In Fallout 4, the player takes on the role of the Sole Survivor, emerging from Vault 111 after being cryogenically frozen for 210 years following a nuclear attack in 2077. The main story revolves around the Sole Survivor's search for their kidnapped son, Shaun, in the post-apocalyptic Boston area known as the Commonwealth. Along the way, the player encounters various factions, faces moral dilemmas, and must decide which path to take in rebuilding the Commonwealth.
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Bethesda delivers with a Fallout 4 update that adds elements of true expansion. Completely free on all platforms, Fallout 4's next-gen update includes enough graphical enhancements, new quests, unreleased content and community elements to more than justify a return to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in style. A return that comes in better than ever after watching the outstanding Amazon Prime Video series.
Fallout 4's core gameplay loop is still enough to hold everything together, even if the surrounding adventure is really showing its age, almost a decade after its initial release. A smooth 60fps performance mode is exactly what a lot of returning players will have wanted, and there's still fun to be had in roaming post-apocalyptic Boston - especially with the timeless V.A.T.S. system at the ready. But there's no looking past the fact that open world games have come a long way since Fallout 4 - a title that arguably felt outdated even back in 2015.
Fallout 4's Next-Gen Update brings minimal changes, but Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPG is still a fun game at its core, even with its issues.
Fallout 4 is a damned good video game. It has its fair share of problems, and the engine really does feel dated now, but with a robust modding community and a compelling narrative it’s an easy recommendation through Xbox Game Pass. Without the ability to mod away many of the issues I wouldn’t be as quick to recommend it, and if you care more about achievements then you may want to hold off. Overall though I loved my time with game, and I’m incredibly excited to see what they do next with Starfield.
What can I say? Fallout 4 is the game everyone should play, because there is something interesting in it for everyone to find.
