FALLOUT 76.

AuthorSuderman, Peter
PositionVIDEO GAME - Product/service evaluation

Fallout 76 is the first online-only entry in the popular Fallout role-playing game franchise. Although the multi-player aspects are often poorly integrated, it maintains a keen interest in the ways that societies organize even after total collapse.

The Fallout games are set in sprawling mock-ups of post-apocalyptic landscapes--in this case, the ruins of West Virginia--that make deft use of environmental storytelling. Scenic dioramas scattered throughout the game world show how the pre-apocalyptic residents lived and died.

You regularly come across communities cobbled together from the ashes of the old world, struggling to survive in a damaged new one. Many of these ramshackle groups have ruling orders--governments or...

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