All Fallout games, ranked
Who would’ve thought the post-apocalypse could be such a fun time? The Fallout franchise has taken the idea of a Mad Max–like future and not only made it into a wildly popular game franchise but also a hit TV series. The core franchise has been around since the late ’90s, and yet we’ve had only a handful of mainline entries in the series since it was revived by Bethesda with Fallout 3. With Starfield in the rearview mirror and the next Elder Scrolls title currently being the dev team’s focus, it could be close to another decade before we can set foot in the wasteland ourselves once again.
What better time, then, to look back at the franchise and rank all the games from best to worst?
Fallout: New Vegas
87 % M Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Genre Shooter, Role-playing (RPG) Developer Obsidian Entertainment Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment, 1C/Cenega, Bethesda Softworks Release October 19, 2010 So much was stacked against Fallout: New Vegas from being great. Obsidian had a mere 18 months to make the entire game, and while that time constraint did show in terms of bugs and stability, it didn’t hold back the quality of writing or depth of role-playing whatsoever.This makes a lot of sense when you consider many of the original creators of Fallout had gone on to form Obsidian. Years later, a combination of patches and fan mods has finally revealed just how impressive and dynamic the game is.
To this day, few games are as open-ended in how they let you complete (and fail) quests. Fallout: New Vegas Trailer — E3 2010
