Fallout 4 review With Fallout 4 just around the corner, there's a good chance you're going into it as someone who's never played a Fallout game in their life (shame on you), or as someone who's played the previous games but doesn't remember the rich story of how the wastelands came to exist in the first place. There's a lot of information to absorb in Fallout's alternative-history universe. While Fallout 3 and New Vegas stand up well as self-contained stories, they're defined by a long line of events that diverged from real-world history soon after World War II. US culture seemingly stayed stuck in the 1950s, while technology advanced towards a 'World of Tomorrow' of lasers and robots, rather than the information era of smartphones and slick (but less badass) techs we have today. The Fallout universe is filled with shady organisations, dwindling global resources and nuclear conflict. Do you know what started the 15-year conflict that concluded in the world becoming a nuclear wasteland, how Super Mutants came to exist, or the origins of powerful Fallout factions like the Enclave and Brotherhood of Steel? If not, then you'll be wandering the Boston wasteland like an amnesiac (which is kind of appropriate given your character awakens from a 200-year cryosleep), but for anyone wanting to get the most out of Bethesda's latest, here are the 12 most important events leading up to the player's emergence from Vault 111 in Fallout 4.