Bethesda acquired the IP in the 2000s, creating Fallout 3, a first-person RPG which took the story-style and tone of Fallout while adapting it to the first-person RPG perspective Bethesda had found success with in The Elder Scrolls series.įallout: New Vegas was then developed by Obsidian Entertainment using the assets from Fallout 3 to create an ambitious new story set in the Mojave Wasteland that’s still considered by many to be a high point of the series. Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 were isometric RPGs with a top-down perspective.
Fallout has been through several distinct phases over the course of its lifespan.