Video Game· 1997· RPG

Fallout

by Tim Cain

Fallout: it draws on 2 recorded sources.

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Mad Max

Film · 1979

InfluenceMEDIUM

The claim is about Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior). Fallout's developers named it as a source for the game's wasteland, and borrowed from it directly: the player's leather jacket is Max's, and the dog companion Dogmeat follows Max's dog.

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Real-world influenceHIGH
  • Nuclear Age

The game is set in the wasteland after a nuclear war, in a retro-futurist America styled on 1950s atomic-age culture.

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Fallout

Set in the Fallout universe.

The series, set in the first half of the 3rd millennium, follows the descendants of survivors of a mutually destructive nuclear exchange between the United States and China that marked the culmination of a series of conflicts over resources which began in the middle of the 21st century. The games share an atompunk retrofuturistic setting and artwork influenced by the post-war culture of the 1950s United States, with its combination of hope for the promises of technology and the lurking fear of nuclear annihilation. Fallout is regarded as a spiritual successor to Wasteland, a 1988 game also developed by Interplay.

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