When is Fallout 4 set? Game series timeline explained
Fallout fandom has exploded in the wake of the new Prime Video series that adapts the beloved video game series to TV for the very first time, with many now booting up Fallout 4 to experience the post-apocalyptic wasteland for themselves.
Whether it be for the first time or returning after its launch back in 2015, there's a lot of curiosity surrounding when the game is set and whether it ties into the new Amazon show – especially in the wake of its positive reviews.
The good news is that though Fallout has been around since the '90s, there actually haven't been too many games, so figuring out the timeline isn't too difficult. Not compared to the likes of Star Wars or Kingdom Hearts anyway.
Regardless, here's everything we know about when Fallout 4 takes place and whether it connects to the TV show.
Fallout 4 is set in the year 2287 and takes place within the city of Boston.
This game's story occurs just before the bomb drops in 2077 and then picks up immediately after the player regains consciousness 210 years later in Vault 111. It's up to the player to scour the wastelands to discover what happened to their kidnapped son.
The original Fallout is set in the year 2161 across the lands of Southern California, while Fallout 2 takes place in 2241 in Northern California. We then fast-forward 138 years to Fallout 3 which heads to the capital of the US with Washington DC.
Fallout: New Vegas then picks up in the Mojave Desert four years after the latter in 2281. The most recent entry in the video game series, Fallout 76, goes back to the year 2102 and puts West Virginia in the spotlight. This is the earliest timeline we've had for Fallout yet.
The Fallout TV show on Prime Video is set in the year 2296, so 219 years after the bomb drops and six years after the events of Fallout 4.
Starring Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins, the eight-part series heads to Los Angeles and sees a young woman leaving her home of Vault 33 to explore the devastated city. While this is a standalone
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