{"id":165591,"date":"2022-12-22T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-trio-of-classic-fallout-games-is-todays-free-epic-games-store-offering\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:16:09","slug":"a-trio-of-classic-fallout-games-is-todays-free-epic-games-store-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-trio-of-classic-fallout-games-is-todays-free-epic-games-store-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"A trio of classic Fallout games is today’s free Epic Games Store offering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday, I used my amazing arithmetical reasoning abilities to surmise that there were only eight free games left to come from the Epic Games Store’s Winter Sale giveaway. I was wrong. Don’t look shocked, it happens. Today sees three of the earliest Fallout games being offered up for nothing. They’re Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood Of Steel. I already own all three elsewhere, as you might well too, but if you don’t then it’s a good way of picking up three classics of 90s PC gaming.\n<\/p>\n

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The Xbox & Bethesda 2022 Summer Showcase revealed what’s coming up from Fallout’s current stewards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.\n<\/p>\n

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 defense 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.\n<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 or, perhaps, games \u2013 will take their place then.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n