The video game “Fallout” is finally available this week on Amazon’s streaming platform. But is it necessary to know the universe before embarking on the series?
Subscribers of Prime Video can finally discover one of the most anticipated series of the year 2024. This Thursday, April 11, fallout is released on the Amazon platform. This 8-episode series adapts the universe of the video game license from Black Isle Studios, which was released in 1997 on PC. Since then, several other episodes have seen the light of day, some by Bethesda Softworks studios, and have enjoyed great success within the gaming community. The last, Fallout 76was released in 2018. This means that the series is awaited by fans.
But don’t panic if you’re not familiar with the world of fallout : we saw the first episode without having played the games before, and the series remains quite accessible, even if you are a newbie. And for good reason, the plot takes place in the post-apocalyptic universe and has retained its singular tone (and its characteristic black humor) to follow the adventures of new characters, so much so that the exhibition allows you to perfectly understand the issues. Conversely, those who know video games well will be able to have fun spotting the winks and references.
A post-apocalyptic universe
Let us remember, however, that the original video game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, two hundred years after a nuclear war. Two worlds oppose each other, the inhabitants of the Vault, who took refuge in bunkers, forced to return to the surface, in what we now call the “wastelands”, a particularly hostile irradiated world.
Prime Video subscribers follow the journey of three characters in particular: Lucy, an idealistic inhabitant of the Vault, returns to the surface to save her father; Maximus, a soldier in the militaristic faction of the Brotherhood of Steel, seeks to bring order; and the enigmatic Ghoul, a mysterious and ambiguous bounty hunter who has survived 200 years in this post-nuclear world.
Series fallout brings together in the cast well-known faces from the small and big screen, such as Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The eight bastards), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks or Aaron Moten (Emancipation). The series is directed in part by Jonathan Nolan, to whom we owe Westworld, and created by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. All eight episodes are available in full on Prime Video.