10 Video Game Classics That Desperately Deserve Remakes
5. Fallout 1 & 2
The two original Fallout games are pretty ancient relics by today's standards. In fact, if you were to take a trip down memory lane and play them now, you'd find yourself wondering how in the hell Fallout 3 and New Vegas are even a part of the same series in the way they're played and presented. The top-down, isometric-like gameplay of the originals are a far cry from the first-person sandbox worlds of the newer entries in the series. There's obviously running themes throughout the entire franchise like the post-apocalyptic America setting and large helpings of oddball humour, but simply remaking Fallout 1 & 2 in the style of Bethesda's interpretation would probably just piss off more people than it pleased. There's still hope though! There's already a modern equivalent of Black Isle Studios' original formula in the form of the rather excellent XCOM: Enemy Unknown, or to a lesser extent, Massive Chalice. How about you give 2K a call, Bethesda? Let them work on some remakes of the original while you focus on getting Fallout 4 out the door. That way, we can have the best of both worlds.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
