Fallout 76

Help resettle the post nuclear landscape as you emerge to explore Appalachia with a handful of other fellow (former) Vault...

Before we start a quick disclaimer. This review is based on the game build at the time of publication. Bethesda has already laid out a timeline starting in early December to address many of the issues that are impacting the game experience. Several...

In an effort to do everything, Fallout 76 fails to do any of it well enough to form an identity. Its multiplayer mindset robs its quests of all the moral decision making that makes the series great, and all that’s left is a buggy mess of systemic designs that never seems to work together and regularly contradicts itself. It all culminates in an aggravating endgame that’s more busywork than satisfying heroics. Bethesda missed the mark with Fallout 76, in part because it seems like it could never decide what it was aiming for.

Fallout 76 strives to be both a single player experience and online multiplayer game, and due to the concessions it makes to achieve this, ends up falling short in both objectives. Some of the ideas are interesting in theory, such as the lack of NPCs giving the wasteland an unsettling quality, but also makes for boring story missions. The overall result is a game that has some interesting ideas that don’t come together in an enjoyable or meaningful way.

Fallout 76 retains the same captivating immersion, atmosphere and organic exploration that made Fallout 4 so enjoyable thanks to an excellent open world, though you'll have to contend with a poorly implemented online component and the typical Bethesda...

Fallout 76 is Fallout on the surface in the sense it has the same art style, the lore, the gross critters lurking all over the place but it severely lacks what everyone loves about the post-apocalyptic RPG series. A world to spend dozens, even hundreds...

The Fallout series is already one of Bethesda's crowning achievements. The release of Fallout 4 a couple of years ago garnered rave reviews from everyone. With Fallout 76, the company is taking the single player franchise online. The end result is...

Fallout 76 isn't to be compared with other Fallouts - it's a spin-off that wants to be something new. Unfortunately, the multiplayer sandbox it tries to be is stagnant and intensely frustrating to...