Review: Fallout 76 – A Shockingly Bad Attempt at Multiplayer Survival

Nuclear hazard.

Fallout 76 will be remembered as a defining moment for Bethesda Game Studios, and not in a good way. This entirely multiplayer take on the Fallout franchise is a technical failure stuffed to bursting point with bugs and performance issues. The real kicker, though, is that even without all of its glitches and frame rate problems, Fallout 76 would still feel like a janky, hollow cash in that fails to justify its existence on almost every level.

The core of Fallout 76 is taken from Fallout 4 – an open world title that we rather liked. Although Fallout 4’s role-playing elements were disappointingly dialled back, its gameplay loop of exploring, shooting mutants, looting, completing quests, scavenging for resources, levelling up, and crafting was well done and addictive. This same gameplay loop is present in Fallout 76, but it’s placed in an open world that, in 2018, is woefully outdated both visually and mechanically.

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