Fallout 2’s amazing opening scene mimics its predecessor, explaining the nuclear holocaust in simple terms, as something we all knew was inevitable, a battle for resources and two super powers finally losing their cool and utilizing nuclear weapons. “War, War never changes.”


As a simple tribesman who has never left your village you have almost nothing but a name and a city to go on. The huge void of Northern California that is your map is completely unrestricted - you can go anywhere from the very beginning, though you do so at your own peril. A tribesman with little but a jumpsuit and a spear is no match for the brutal reality of the wasteland. Fallout 2 creates a vivid post apocalyptic world that captures the feeling of chaos and anarchy after disaster.

When you enter small villages, you feel their sense of desperation, a small group of people struggling together for nothing more than survival. As you arrive in the larger settlements of New Reno and San Francisco you find more organized but no less dangerous places, where black markets and criminals operate openly and the streets are littered with addicts and prostitutes.