It’s finally official! After years of waiting patiently, Fallout 4 is being released on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Since yesterday, the internet has been on fire after the Fallout site at Bethesda showed a 24-hour countdown and the words “please stand by.” It was very clear from the image that a Fallout announcement was impending, but without anything official, we couldn’t completely freak out. I hoped for Fallout 4 but I didn’t know—nobody did. In what has been a very exciting and anxious 24 hours waiting for the reveal, I can safely say that it was completely worth it.
Fallout 4 looks incredible. As you can see in the trailer below, the visuals far surpass the last-gen. We are no longer living in the past. From the sharpness of the graphics, it is quite clear that Bethesda intend to make full use of the PS4 and the Xbox One (and PC!). The main city in the trailer seems alive—much more vibrant (as vibrant as you can get in a post-apocalyptic wasteland) than in Washington D.C. It is still unclear as to where the game will be set, although it does look a lot like Boston. Right now though, I don’t care. I’m just so happy to see Fallout 4 official, out there and looking better than it ever has before.
From the haunting start of the trailer, we see a living room with the “please stand by” image on the TV. A dog is walking through the abandoned room (that keeps cutting between when it was lived in by a family before the fallout) and we hear a song that is similar to the music featured in Fallout 3. Over the top of it, you can hear a news reporter informing those that are listening about a nuclear bomb. “We do have confirmed reports of nuclear detonation,” he says as two parents put their baby to bed. The footage of a destroyed suburban town continue and we see what looks like The Brotherhood of Steel and other familiar creatures (deathclaw and ghouls?) until—what sounds like Ron Perlman uttering the famous line “War never changes” fills the speakers. Afterwards, we see what looks like Boston and some of the settings we will most likely becoming acquainted with when we get to play. As the trailer comes to an end, we see the world suffer as the nuclear bomb goes off (the one that most likely caused the nuclear fallout in the first place) and the screen cuts to black. Back to the dog and he meets up with his owner—a vault dweller from Vault 111 (not 101 like Fallout 3) and says “Let’s go, pal” as the trailer wraps up.
Wow! I can barely contain myself. Bethesda look to have created something wonderful and I can’t wait to hear more about it at E3 (which We The Nerdy will be covering, of course). For now though, I will leave you with the glorious trailer for Fallout 4. Enjoy!
