The World of Fallout | Media & Cultural Studies

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Examining the four main single player games in the franchise and its related spinoff games this book explores the world of the popular role-playing video game Fallout. Kenton Taylor Howard examines the maps of the games the design of their worlds and how the franchise has been expanded through fan-created video game modifications and tabletop games. This book highlights the importance of worldbuilding in the Fallout franchise examining the extensive alternate history the game creates – diverging from real-world history in the early 1900s and resulting in a world that is destroyed by nuclear apocalypse in 2077 – and exploring how the series builds this detailed world over the course of many …