Five Years Later: 10 Things You Learn Replaying Fallout 4
4. The Open World Is Still One Of The Deepest From The Last Generation
Few game developers, aside from CD Projekt Red and Rockstar, can boast to creating open worlds quite as detailed and lore-heavy as Bethesda. Every room has a story and trawling through computers for diary entries and audio logs can be a fascinating experience given how much has happened in the world of Fallout.
The Commonwealth, based in Boston, is stuffed to the brim with towns and enemy bases to discover. Key locations such as Fenway Park have been recreated in haunting detail, highlighting the destruction caused by the nuclear apocalypse.
Furthermore, the world has a wide selection of location types, ranging from built-up areas like Diamond City, rural settlements where the residents are forced to scourge whatever they can to survive, to radiation infested hell-holes where the only life is ghouls and Radscorpians.
There's nothing quite like being on your way to complete a mission only to a stumble upon a vault, which you obviously have to look inside, before wishing you hadn't upon discovering the kind of horrifying experiments committed by Vault-tec inside. It's moments like this which make the open-world feel alive and show that Bethesda is still one of the best when it comes to building them.