Fallout is one of the most controversial games around. Fallout's a video game about what life would be like if there was actually a nuclear holocaust and a select few people were secured in 'vaults' underground to protect them from the dangerous radiation and importantly the nuclear fallout. I love this idea! I've loved it since I played one of the original strategy games on the PC. I like the idea more than the game itself. I've always been interested in science; I used to sit in physics class and whilst the teacher was going over exam prep I'd sit on wikipedia and read about intresting sciency stuff like the damaging effects of radiation.
Fallout is visually beautiful. from the gameplay to the way they market it. The idea is that once these people leave the vault they step into a destroyed and retro, 50's styled american landscape. This is the only thing they've ever known. Thus the music for demo video's on youtube and on TV is usually 50's related music like the kind of stuff you'd imagine hearing at a diner during the 1950's in central America after a game of basketball with your buddies. This in my mind is such a scary idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPt08UYmyMo&feature=&p=FD3E0095DA204590&index=0&playnext=1
"I don't want to set the world on fire"
Eery isn't it?
