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May 9, 2024 · IGN revisits Fallout 76 six years after its launch and finds a much more entertaining game with new features, quests, and NPCs. Read why this online multiplayer RPG is still worth playing in 2024.
- Fallout 76 Review
After more than 50 hours plundering the irradiated wasteland...
- Fallout 76: Wastelanders Review
Verdict. With the Wastelanders update, Fallout 76 has taken...
- Fallout 76 Review
- A wasted wasteland.
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By Brandin Tyrrel
Updated: Apr 21, 2020 4:20 am
Posted: Nov 22, 2018 4:45 am
After more than 50 hours plundering the irradiated wasteland of Fallout 76, the greatest mystery still lingering is who this mutated take on Fallout is intended for. Like many of Vault-Tec’s underground bunkers, Bethesda’s multiplayer riff on its post-nuclear RPG series is an experiment gone awry. There are bright spots entangled in this mass of frustratingly buggy and sometimes conflicting systems, but what fun I was able to salvage from the expansive but underpopulated West Virginia map was consistently overshadowed by the monotony of its gathering and crafting treadmill.
On the surface, Fallout 76 is another dose of Bethesda’s tried-and-true open-world RPG formula on a larger-than-ever map that’s begging to be explored. As you emerge from Vault 76 you’ll start in a relatively peaceful forest and venture out into more dangerous pockets of the irradiated wasteland. My favorite is traveling the lengths of the Cranberry Bog, where the pinkish-red fields are seemingly inviting from afar but turn out to be full of a snaking system of trenches and alien forests that hide the worst horrors of the wasteland, but there are many more.
But while the lighting and art direction of these different regions are great at setting the eerie mood and tone of a destroyed Appalachia, the actual objects like trees, shrubs, buildings, cars, and more somehow look flatter and less detailed than those in Fallout 4 did three years ago. Coupling that with Bethesda’s still-unimpressive character animations, Fallout 76 isn’t a good-looking game except when viewed from the exact right angles.
In an effort to do everything, Fallout 76 fails to do any of it well enough to form an identity. Its multiplayer mindset robs its quests of all the moral decisionmaking that makes the series great, and all that’s left is a buggy mess of systemic designs that never seems to work together and regularly contradicts itself. It all culminates in an aggr...
IGN's updated review of Fallout 76 in 2024 criticizes its buggy and shallow gameplay, lack of meaningful interaction, and underwhelming graphics. The review praises the environmental storytelling and some creative tasks, but concludes that the game is an experiment gone awry.
Nov 14, 2018 · Fallout 76 is a multiplayer online role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Read critic and user reviews, ratings, and opinions on the game's features, bugs, and performance.
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Nov 21, 2018 · Fallout 76 is a shockingly big and beautiful world to explore. When first stepping out of Vault 76 you're in a heavily wooded mountainous region where the buildings are gently rotting but...
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Apr 25, 2020 · Verdict. With the Wastelanders update, Fallout 76 has taken a solid step in the right direction after its dire launch. New human NPCs bring a healthy dose of personality and interaction to...
- David Jagneaux
Nov 19, 2018 · Pros. +. Intriguing new beasts to fight. +. Fascinating backstory to Appalachia. +. New regions broaden what the post-apocalypse can be. Cons. - Numerous technical issues. - Engine is out-of-date...
Apr 29, 2020 · The Wastelanders update transforms Fallout 76 from a broken mess to one of the best Fallout games ever made. It adds skill checks, dialogue options, factional warfare, and a sense of danger and consequence to the online RPG.
