You also start with a wife (or husband you can change the player character's sex but not sexuality and customize his or her physical features) and a son, and you don't need a spoiler warning to assume that things go south on that front by the time you take your first step in the wasteland.įallout 4 is set in the Commonwealth, the wasteland that used to be New England. This time we get an in-person glimpse at what this pre-apocalypse-future-alt-America looked like, since you play someone from that era who finds himself in the 2270s as part of Vault-Tec's survival-program-cum-social-experiment. It's over two hundred years in the future of an alternate history America where rock and roll never caught on and 1950s style carried into the 2070s before a nuclear war blew up everything. Welcome to the Commonwealth The concept of Fallout is simple: postapocalyptic wasteland. Incidentally, this is the first Fallout game with a fully voiced protagonist.

Ron Perlman was the voice of Fallout intros since the beginning, but in Fallout 4 it's the default male player character saying that line. All that said, the guy who says 'War never changes' actually changed in this game.

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