SAN FRANCSICO, May 31 — Post-apocalyptic adventure franchise Fallout is heading to a new part of the United States — and in rather rapid fashion after 2015’s Fallout 4.
Bethesda Game Studios is teasing Fallout 76 ahead of an Electronic Entertainment Expo presentation on June 10, 2018.
Whether Fallout 76 will turn out to be on the same scale as “Fallout 3” and “Fallout 4” remains to be seen — publisher Bethesda Softworks delivered the game’s teaser trailer with minimal comment, save for identifying the target platforms of PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC.
The trailer introduces a near-abandoned nuclear fallout shelter, Vault 76, in which there appears to be one lone survivor, presumably the player character.
The vault is already established in Fallout franchise lore, having been mentioned in both Fallout 4 and 2008’s Fallout 3, Bethesda’s first Fallout game since acquiring the franchise.
The series take place in an irradiated, post-apocalyptic future in which survivors are beginning to emerge from underground bunkers following a globally destructive nuclear exchange.
Imagining an alternative history which diverged from our own following the events of World War II, Fallout games feature production design motifs informed by 1950s trends, though they take place in the 2100s and 2200s.
