The Epic Games Store will give away three traditional Fallout video games totally free later this 12 months after pulling them from the subsequent week’s choices.
Chatting with IGN, an Epic Games Store spokesperson confirmed Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Techniques: Brotherhood of Metal will nonetheless be a part of the storefront’s free giveaways in 2024, however simply will not arrive subsequent week as initially introduced.
Epic marketed the three video games as being out there to obtain totally free for anybody with an account from February 22 to 29 earlier than quietly pulling the announcement with no clarification, and did not provide a motive to IGN when requested both. Tremendous Meat Boy Eternally changed the three Fallout video games as subsequent week’s freebie.
The unique Fallout, not developed by present franchise proprietor Bethesda however Interaction Productions, launched in 1997 and laid the groundwork for what would turn into considered one of gaming’s most iconic franchises. Gamers would discover a wasteland suffering from wild and wacky characters and have interaction in turn-based role-playing fight to defeat all method of mutants.
Fallout 2 is maybe essentially the most beloved of the pre-Bethesda video games, providing an analogous recreation to the unique however enhancing methods throughout the board. “With its nice storyline, big recreation world, and effectively written scripts, Fallout 2 gave [us] many, many hours of completely absorbing gameplay,”
IGN mentioned in our evaluate
Lastly, Fallout Techniques: Brotherhood of Metal takes that beloved world and applies tactical, squad-based fight. “Fallout Techniques: Brotherhood of Metal does nearly every part proper. The one drawback is that there is an excessive amount of of it,” we mentioned in our evaluate.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.