There’s probably not much point in me explaining what Fallout is. The original is one of the seminal CRPGs from the previous millennium. That’s a solid 1000 years of gaming. Developed by Interplay and released in 1997, it mixed the raygun gothic, atompunk style of the sci-fi of the 1950s with the eschatological terror of the same period, wrought large across the continental United States of America. It’s quite good. Fallout 2 followed from Black Isle Studios a year later, before the series veered towards tactical role-playing with, erm, Fallout Tactics in 2001. The Epic Games Store is giving away free games for a total of 15 days, running until December 29th. Yesterday saw the seventh freebie, ray-traced puzzler Lego Brick Tales. The Winter Sale offer has included quite a few different genres so far. Things kicked off on December 15th with tower defence game Bloons TD6, followed a day later by Double Fine’s RPG Costume Quest 2. Saturday offered up arcade racer Horizon Chase Turbo, replaced on Sunday by sci-fi exploration game Sable. Pony-themed fighter Them’s Fightin’ Herds started off this week’s selection, with things swerving into FPS territory on Tuesday thanks to Wolfenstein: New Order. Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood Of Steel are free to keep from the Epic Games Store until 4pm GMT/5pm CET/11am ET on December 23rd. A new game – or, perhaps, games – will take their place then.
