5 Cancelled Fallout Video Games You Never Knew Existed
Forget Fallout 3, you almost got a Warcraft-style MMO instead.
Fallout 4 is hands-down the most eagerly anticipated game that'll be launching in 2015. It looks incredible, taking gamers to a new area of post-apocalyptic America that promises hundreds of hours of grim, bleak, and utterly engrossing questing.
But before the Fallout series was taken over by Bethesda and re-imagined in the first-person format, it was walking a long and troubled road filled with development nightmares. After Fallout 2, the series just couldn't regain momentum, and there was an incredible number of botched attempts to take players back to the US wastelands. Fallout games were being discarded in much the same way as players would discard pre-war money in Fallout 3 (before realising that it actually had plenty of life in it yet).
Yes, before Fallout 3 was released the series looked like it'd consigned to the annals of gaming history, destined to only be appreciated by hardcore gamers and historians, who'd study it like an dust-covered artefact and try to work out what went wrong to the once-great series.
Among the dropped Fallout games were shooters, strategy games and even a completely alternative version of Fallout 3 that you can still play a test build of today. This list is a tribute to those games the series has lost along the way, which puts into perspective just what a great revival it's had in recent years.