The Fallout Franchise's History With Aliens

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The Falloutfranchise is mostly known for the raiders, the super mutants, and other such dangers in the wasteland. However, it has also showcased extraterrestrial beings in its titles. Every main game in the series has included aliens in some form or other — from passing encounters to full-blown quests surrounding them.

In fact, there seems to be more alien-related content in the newer Fallout games. Fallout 3 even features an expansion where the player is abducted by aliens and must escape their spacecraft. The next Fallout titles then follow with more alien encounters, albeit not as extensive as the Fallout 3 add-on. Still, it seems the developers intend to continue this trend of adding alien creatures to the Fallout games.

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In the first Fallout game, players can randomly encounter a crashed spacecraft as they travel from one point of the map to another. It’ll be partly buried under the ground with two skeletons lying by it. These skeletons were likely aliens as they have enlarged skulls.

Searching them will reward the player with an Alien Blaster and a Fuzzy Painting. Fallout’s Alien Blaster is a unique gun with high damage, high accuracy, but short range. As for the Fuzzy Painting, it’s likely an easter egg as it’s an in-game portrait of Elvis Presley.

The Alien Blaster makes another appearance in Fallout 2. However, it doesn’t come with an alien-related encounter and can, instead be bought from a traveling merchant named Willy. Alternatively, the player can acquire one from the trap room puzzle in the Enclave Oil Rig, suggesting that the Enclave of Fallout has had dealings with extraterrestrial beings.

Aside from this, there are more subtle nods