Fallout 76 Review: 4 Ups & 7 Downs

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4. Multiplayer CAN Be Fun

Multiplayer may be disappointing as hell, but it does have to be said that it can be fun with the right convergence of circumstances.

Again, playing with your real-life friends with microphones is the absolute ideal way, because the game's general jank and soullessness can be compensated for by your own chatter and co-operation within the world. You can bond over the glitches and maybe even enjoy them as a perverse shared experience.

Randoms are a decidedly more mixed bag, and though there seems to be a fairly low level of griefing in the game so far, it's really a flip of the coin as to whether you'll have fun with the folks you come across in your 24-player server.

Having another human being to talk to helps break up the monotony enormously, and simply makes it decidedly more tolerable to push ahead through the game's dull suite of missions. Whether that'll be enough to make it worth buying, though, will vary wildly among players.