It was also commercially successful although it failed to make expectations in sales, the game reached 600,000 sales worldwide. It was released in North America in October 1997, and was released later in Europe after removal of children.įallout was critically successful, being praised for its open-ended gameplay, combat, and character system and considered one of the best video games of all time. It was initially intended to use Steve Jackson Games' system GURPS, but Interplay eventually developed their own system called 'SPECIAL' for the game. Each of the characters were designed with moral ambiguity. It was conceptualized as a game where the player could do whatever they wanted, but was designed to force the player to take side quests. Fallout is considered to be the spiritual successor to the 1988 role-playing video game Wasteland, and the art style drew inspiration from works from the Atomic Age. The game was treated as low-budget by Interplay and was outsourced to the role-playing game division of Interplay, though it would cost $3 million. Tim Cain is the creator of Fallout, working on it as early as 1994. The combat in the game is turn-based and in each turn the player has, they can commit certain actions like fighting until their action points are depleted. Gameplay revolves around exploring the wasteland and interacting with other inhabitants, some of which can give missions. Character creation is governed by the SPECIAL system, which sets the primary statistics of the vault dweller. The protagonist of Fallout is an inhabitant of a Vault, part of a network of long-term nuclear shelters, who is forced to venture out into the wastes to find a replacement part to fix their Vault's failing water supply system and save their fellow Vault dwellers.

The game features a post-apocalyptic and chiefly retro-futuristic setting, taking place in the mid-22nd century decades after a global nuclear war.

Fallout is a 1997 role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Productions.

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