There are quite a few films and TV series based on video games. And yet, there are really few of them well made, consistent with the work from which they derive and even enjoyable if you don’t know it at all. Falloutdisponibile in streaming from April 11th on Amazon Prime Videois fortunately one of them and falls into all 3 categories.
The series, which we had the chance to preview, starts from the end: “The End” is the first writing that appears in the first frame of the first episode. This is not an error: Fallout it begins from the end understood as the end of humanity as we know it. The story takes place in a dystopian future, at the end of what appears to be a nuclear war that has wiped out more or less 90% of the Earth’s population. The vast majority of survivors hid in the vault, underground shelters scattered throughout the United States, which is where the story is set. Not in the East but in the West, one of the few differences with the setting of the most recent and well-known video games. For the rest, the work is incredibly faithful to the very popular series developed by Interplay e Bethesdathe same software house by Starfield (here is our test) e di Elder Scrolls.
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youtube: the Italian trailer for Fallout
What Fallout is about
Falloutwhich runs along 8 episodes (the first 3 directed by Jonathan Nolan, brother of the more famous Christopher), is a science fiction series set in an imaginary version of the United States, which remained culturally and morally in the 1950s but evolved technologically thanks to the use of nuclear energy, which also powers cars. After the atomic catastrophe of 2077, due to the war against “the dirty communists”, people flee underground and for about 200 years they live, work, grow grain, raise families and have children in the various vaults, some connected to each other but all theoretically isolated from the outside. The series begins here and essentially follows the fate of 3 characters:
- Lucyan inhabitant of Vault 33 who decides to venture outside;
- Maximusa member of the Brotherhood of Steel, a sort of sect of warriors who (even in video games) are equipped with almost inviolable combat armor;
- Coopera former Hollywood actor who due to radiation has transformed into a ghoul, a sentient but zombie-like mutant.
The series, starring among others Ella Purnell (the very good Jackie from Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (it’s worth using the original audio just to hear his deep South American accent) and from the stainless Kyle MacLachlan Of Twin Peaks, manages to tell very well both the naivety of the inhabitants of the vaults, pampered and protected for decades, and the horror and violence that dominate the surface of the Earth, that Contaminated Zone theater of the most ferocious acts committed by those who are willing to do anything to survive. But anything really: like the video games from which it derives, Fallout It’s not a series for weak stomachscharacterized by an irreverent and certainly not politically correct humor and by a rate of bleeding and disembowelment that tends to be high and significantly increasing from episode 3 onwards.
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Looking forward to Fallout season 2
The story told in Fallout And well written, well constructed, compelling and enjoyable even by those who have never played the various chapters of the saga. The difference is that if you have played a video game you notice many more details and understand many more nuances and references: there are all the graphics, iconography, colors and even the sounds invented by Bethesda, there’s the Pip-Boythe bracelet that in the games is used to control the character, weapons and armor, the half-crazy robotsthe same food, the same medicines and Nuka-Cola. Even the bullet-time during shootouts and the procedure needed to hack computers are taken directly from video games. Everything works perfectly, but without forcing which would make the series difficult for those who are new to the world of Fallout.
There are also a couple of things that aren’t there that we would have expected to see, like the Super Mutants and the Deathclaws, undoubtedly the two most dangerous creatures in the video games of the saga. But maybe they will make their appearance in season 2, which obviously will be there as we understand from the ending of this season 1, which is not a real ending (more than That of the Three-Body Problem, anyway) and leaves at least a couple of questions unanswered. It is so certain that there will be that We also know where it will be set: we can’t say yet but who played in the last ones Fallout he probably imagines it. And even a little she hopes so.
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– 2024-04-11 21:24:50
