Is Fallout 4 A Game To Fall For?

Fallout 4 is one of the highly anticipated, visually-striking video games of the past decade.

20:30 20 November 2015

Fallout 4 is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland outside Boston and the action takes place 200 years after a nuclear holocaust. Players assume the role of survivors whose task is to explore the world after being frozen in a vault for years.

 

Experts agree that it is one of the most visually-striking video games of the past decade. It evokes 1950s-era sci-fi and the naivety of early Cold War-era pop culture.

 

Extremely popular, Fallout 4 is expected to become one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed video games of the decade. It is from the creator of 2011 fantasy epic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrin, which sold more than 18 million copies worldwide. Bethesda said that Fallout 4 is its biggest project to date, which followed Fallout 3 that sold 10 million copies in 2008. It won game of the year at the Game Developers Choice Awards, an annual gathering of industry leaders.

 

Chris Melissinos, curator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit "The Art of Video Games," says video games must be art because they are made of art. "Inside a game like Fallout 4, you can observe landscapes and sculpture and orchestration and narrative arcs and principles of design," he says. "All of these things that, on their own, we put on a pedestal."