5 Cancelled Fallout Video Games You Never Knew Existed

3. Fallout - PlayStation (1996)

Of all the unfinished Fallout titles, this PS One version is the most mysterious. It was meant to be a top-down shooter, and was in development by Interplay for only four months before being aborted. While no images of the game were ever released, we can probably get a half-decent idea of what kind of game it'd be based on the ultra-violent psycho-shooter Loaded. Loaded was published for the PS One by Interplay in 1995. It was a massively repetitive but commercially successful top-down shooter set in the distant future, in which you controlled one of six deranged guns-for-hire and blasted your way through room after room of equally deranged enemies. A sequel for the game, Re-Loaded, was released in late 1996 but flopped completely. Maybe the poor reception of Re-Loaded prompted Interplay to reconsider the merits of a top-down shooter at this point. Nevertheless, Interplay's urge to create a more action-oriented console-based Fallout clearly didn't fade over the years, and in 2004 they went on to release Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for the PS2 and Xbox - which didn't do too well...