Fallout 76 Review: 4 Ups & 7 Downs

4. The Totally Mediocre Visuals

Yes, yes, none of Bethesda's games really look any good, but Fallout 76 actually dares to be legitimately ugly at times. In fairness, it manages to look barely passable on a 4K TV with HDR enabled, but otherwise, both the textures and the general art direction are intensely bland.

First and foremost, it's obvious that a ton of assets have been lazily copy-pasted from Fallout 4, while up-close objects are generally embarrassingly low-poly, and you won't go more than a few minutes without seeing textures popping in out of nowhere.

There are areas in this game where collections of trees bear the exactly same ring pattern organised in the exact same orientation: it's hilariously transparent that they were literally duplicated without the devs even bothering to rotate the trees and make the laziness slightly less obvious.

That really underlines the stunning lack of care that was put into every facet of this game. Nobody plays a Fallout game for the graphics, but come on.