Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game follows the Vault Dweller, who is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California to retrieve a water chip that will replace the broken chip of Vault 13, their home, which they are the first person to ever leave. The player engages in Western RPG character building and turn-based tactical combat while getting to know settlements and factions of people, mutants and ghouls through branching dialogue trees. The game uses the SPECIAL system to build a character, and it allows very different types of characters. The player explores the devastated ruins of a former golden age civilization and can talk, sneak or fight past mutants, gangsters and robotic adversaries. Decisions made in dialogue and in the field matter, and a wrong choice can end with the character dead in the wasteland. The game is credited with revitalizing the computer role-playing genre,. It is a single-player role-playing game played from an isometric view, developed by Black Isle Studios and Interplay Entertainment and released in 1997.