In that game, a survivor from 2077, who had been in suspended animation for 200 years, is trying to find the baby that was stolen from them while they were asleep.Īmazon could also opt to base the show on the most recent installment, 2018’s Fallout 76.

Then there’s 2015’s Fallout 4, which is set in the remnants of Boston and its suburbs. leaves to explore the world of 2277 in an attempt to find their father, who had escaped the Vault as well. In 2008’s Fallout 3, a 19-year-old kid (created by the player) who grew up in a Vault near Washington, D.C. If they do follow the games, though, they have a couple of interesting options. But there are also some regular people, including a widespread military organization called The Brotherhood of Steel whose members wear suits of armor similar to what Tony Stark built in the first Iron Man movie.Īs for a more specific plot the Fallout show may follow, well, that depends on which of the recent games they base the show on… assuming they even follow the plot of the game series and don’t just create an original story in the same fictional universe, but in a previously unplayable location. What remains of the world is a wasteland full of mutants, giant insects, zombie-like ghouls, and other irradiated wildlife. In most of the games, it’s been 200 or so years since the bombs dropped. Good thing people in the ’50s were also big on bomb shelters, which is how some people managed to survive in underground shelters called Vaults. But so did the atomic bombs, as the world learns first hand when a nuclear war decimates the planet in 2077.

The world of the Fallout games is one in which the art-deco style of the 1950s persisted, even as we developed robots and nuclear-powered cars. And while we don’t much about the show yet, what we have learned makes us excited to wander the wasteland again. Now, Amazon Prime is planning to bring that unique perspective to television, and with some help from people who made the games. While there’s been plenty of movies, books, and comics set in post-apocalyptic worlds, few have been as unique as those in the numerous ’50s-flavored Fallout games.

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