Amazon's laugh-out-loud Fallout series may not get the same accolades as HBO's The Last of Us, but it's an even more impressive game adaptation feat.
When the first trailer for Amazon’s Fallout dropped, the internet was hit by a familiar wave of eye rolls. Every aspect of it was scrutinized, from its Power Suit design to its title card gags. Now, days after the entire series was released on Amazon Prime Video to rave reviews, those preemptive haters are eating irradiated crow.
Related Selective adaptation On paper, Amazon’s Fallout is a loose adaptation of Bethesda’s RPG series. It contains lots of references to the games, but it has an entirely invented story. The series takes place 219 years after a nuclear attack decimates America and follows three different characters whose paths intersect. Lucy is a “vault dweller” who encounters the surface world for the first time in a quest to find her kidnapped father.
Here, that approach feels like a revelation that few, if any, video game adaptations have nailed. It captures the spirit of the games, but smartly works around the interactive elements that often get lost in translation. For instance, a big draw of Fallout games is that they are RPGs that let players shape their character as they see fit. In Fallout 3, players are quickly presented with a moral choice when they find an undetonated bomb at the center of a town called Megaton.
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