Interaction’s (and later Bethesda’s) Fallout games have all the time held a particular place within the hearts of gamers. Waits between mainline installments have solely grown longer, and there could also be loads of different post-apocalyptic worlds, however of us love the RPG collection for its immersive world and black humorousness. Fallout scratches a selected itch, which made it all of the extra attention-grabbing when Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy revealed they have been going to be adapting the collection for Prime Video.
After a small image rollout earlier within the week, the primary trailer for the upcoming present premiered at CCXP on Saturday morning. Set 200 years after the apocalypse, the collection stars Lucy (Ella Purnell), certainly one of a number of individuals who’ve been dwelling in underground vaults designed to carry folks as nuclear struggle occurred above floor. Like different Vault Dwellers from the video games, Lucy leaves her residence of Vault 33 to go exploring the wasteland. On the identical time she’s attempting to robust it out and hopping from settlement to settlement, colourful characters like a Ghoul working as a bounty hunter (Walton Goggins) and Aaron Moten as Brotherhood of Metal member Maximus live their very own bloody, violent lives that’ll possible find yourself intersecting in some unspecified time in the future through the story.
Yep, that’s Fallout all proper: it’s obtained the monsters, retro-future fashion, an odd humorousness, and even a canine companion like in Bethesda’s installments. The trailer manages to promote that it’s obtained the distinct vibe of the collection, helped by it happening in the identical continuity because the video games. However the massive query is what it’s obtained to name its personal: whereas it’s not a recreation, it could be good if it added one thing onto the video games’ already crammed plate, and even simply took one thing from these video games and put its personal distinctive spin on it.
Fallout leaves the Vault to take its first steps out into the world on April 12, 2024 for Prime Video. The collection additionally stars Kyle MacLachlan, Dale Dickey, Leslie Uggams, and Michael Emerson.
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