Fallout 4: 10 Biggest Questions Answered For New Players

7. What€™s The World Like Outside Of The US?

It's very likely that most of the world in Fallout is awful, irradiated and barren, much like the US, but there's just no way of exactly knowing. In the lead-up to the nuclear war, Europe was in a drawn-out conflict with the Middle East over oil. When that war ended in a stalemate, the European Commonwealth (Fallout's equivalent of the EU) dissolved, turning Europe into warring nation states much like they were up to the early 20th century. When the world plunged into nuclear conflict, it's not entirely clear which countries outside of the US, China and Russia were affected, but it's highly likely that all the world's most powerful nations were hit. While Europe, much of Asia and North America are likely to have been equally ravaged by nuclear war, there's little word on the state of South America and Africa. With relatively little reason to have been targeted by the nuclear war however, there's a possibility that they were less affected, and - worldwide radiation aside - may be relatively intact. In summary, Fallout lore has done a great job of ensuring that the player knows little more than what anyone in the US wasteland knows about the state of the world. Part of the series' charm is that genuine sense of not knowing what's 'out there' in the big wide world - but all the signs suggest that it ain't pretty.