With Amazon Prime’s new Fallout TV show winning plaudits for its rich world-building, loving nods to series lore and dark humour, it might just be safe to admit that video-game classics can, after all, be successfully adapted for the screen. Not sure I can handle the ultraviolence, to be honest – I know, I know, but pixelated fountains of gore just aren’t the same…
Unpopular opinion time: I love Fallout 4. Yes, even building the settlements. It was a game I sank plenty of hours into during lockdown, when its oddly optimistic view of life post-apocalypse really resonated. I wrote about it for Whynow back in 2021 and had a lot of fun tying together Ray Bradbury and Anglo-Saxon poetry about the lost glories of the Roman Empire. Sic transit gloria mundi, and all that.
Gem Wheeler 