In 2004, Interplay closed Black Isle Studios, and continued to produce an action game with RPG elements for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel without Black Isle Studios.

An early video game that used perks, and named it as such, was the 1997 computer RPG game Fallout.

Glutton Creeper Games sued Interplay in 2007 for breach of contract for a pen-and-paper Fallout RPG.

* Fallout ( series ), adventure / RPG games featuring Raiders as non-player characters

Paradise Cracked was inspired by cyberpunk works such as The Matrix, Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and Philip K. Dick novels ; and Metalheart: Replicants Rampage is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk tactical RPG inspired by Jagged Alliance, Syndicate, and Fallout.

* In the RPG Fallout: New Vegas, an achievement called " New Vegas Samurai " is available with an image based on Six String Samurai's movie poster.

Hogan has also lent his voice to the video game industry, providing the voice of Captain Armando-Owen Bailey in the RPG, Mass Effect 2, as well as the opening character, Doc Mitchell, in Fallout: New Vegas.

* In the Fallout series of video games, the bulk of the Sino-American war takes place in the 2070s, and its climax, the Great War that starts the Apocalypse, two hours of nuclear war that led to the devastation of Earth, takes place on October 23, 2077.

Other video games adapt the Science Fiction Western or Weird West subgenres ( Gunman Chronicles, Fallout, Mass Effect and Darkwatch ).

Some titles attempt to merge the two systems: for example, the role-playing game Fallout uses turn-based combat and real-time gameplay, while the real-time strategy games Homeworld, Rise of Nations, and the games of the Total War series allow the player to pause the game and issue orders.

The game's large interactive environments, wealth of options, level of detail and the scope of its urban sandbox exploration has been compared to later sandbox games like Grand Theft Auto III and its sequels, Sega's own Yakuza series, Fallout 3, and Deadly Premonition.

* Bethesda Softworks, LLC, video games creators ( The Elder Scrolls series, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and others )

Hit songs such as " Ain't That a Kick in the Head ", " Sway "," You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You ", " That's Amore ", and Martin's signature song " Everybody Loves Somebody " ( and many more ) have been used in films ( such as the Oscar-winning Logorama, A Bronx Tale, Casino, Goodfellas, Payback, Vegas Vacation and Return to Me ), television series ( such as American Dad !, Friends, and House MD ), video games ( such as The Godfather: The Game, The Godfather II, Fallout: New Vegas, and Mafia II ), and even fashion shows ( such as the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2008 ).

* Dean Martin's music is featured on the radios in the video games Mafia II and Godfather II as well as Fallout New Vegas.

In an interview from 2007, he says that Fallout 2 helped him rethink the possibilities of dialogue in Planescape: Torment ( and in later games he was involved with, including Neverwinter Nights 2 ).

All games in the Fallout series are set in the world described by its characters as " Wasteland " ( for example, the " Midwest Wasteland " in Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel or the " Capital Wasteland " in Fallout 3 ).

The inclusion of The Ink Spots ' songs in Fallout and other games has sparked a renewed interest in The Ink Spots ' work among newer generations in recent years.

Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games created by Interplay Entertainment.

Bethesda Softworks now owns the rights to produce all Fallout games.

He has also contributed voice acting to a number of computer games, most notably playing the villain Jon Irenicus in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Morpheus in Fallout.

** Fallout series, the sequels and spinoff games derived from Fallout

In 2010 he expanded his resume to include both video games and voiceover work when he voiced Benny in the role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas.

The Fallout series of video games features countless references to retro-futurism, with its allusions to the 1950's despite being set in a post nuclear war setting.

The post-apocalyptic role-playing video game Fallout 2 and its sequel Fallout: New Vegas also feature a throwing weapon called the Holy Frag Grenade, bearing the same shape as the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

* Tandi ( Fallout 2 )

* Fallout 2 ( 1998 )-Tandi

While working on Planescape: Torment, Avellone was simultaneously working on Fallout 2.

" There are also Wasteland homage elements in Fallout 2 as well.

The first two titles in the series ( Fallout and Fallout 2 ) were developed by Black Isle Studios.

Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian Entertainment with many former Black Isle employees who created Fallout and Fallout 2.

The same year, Crytek's open world first-person shooter Crysis incorporated stealth elements within its gameplay, as did the multiplayer first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 the same year and the first-person role-playing game Fallout 3 the following year.

* John Bishop, a gang leader in Fallout 2

Black Isle Studios, an in-house developer, followed with the sequel, Fallout 2, in 1998.

In 2012, in a press conference Bethesda revealed that in exchange for 2 million dollars, Interplay gave to them full rights for Fallout Online.

Interplay's rights to sell and merchandise Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout: Tactics-Brotherood of Steel will expire December 31, 2013.

* Charon, a deathly mutated man ( ghoul ) in Fallout 3

A post-apocalyptic version of the archives is featured in Fallout 3, visited in a mission where the player must retrieve the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights.

* A perk from the PC and videogames Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas is called " Mr. Sandman ".

In 2004, the Fallout franchise was acquired by Bethesda Softworks from Interplay Productions and the development of Fallout 3 was handed over to Bethesda Game Studios.

Fallout 3 was released on October 28, 2008.

Five downloadable content packs for Fallout 3 were released in the year following its release — Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta.

* Fallout 3 ( 2008 )

* Fallout 3 ( 2008 )

In 2007, their version of " Bei Mir Bist Du Schön " was included in the game BioShock, a first-person shooter that takes place in an alternate history 1960, and later in 2008, their song " Civilization " ( with Danny Kaye ) was included in the Atomic Age-inspired video game Fallout 3.

* In the 2008 videogame Fallout 3, the character known as Betty, encountered within the Tranquility Lane computer simulation, was partially based upon Anthony Fremont.

" Maybe " was used as the opening theme in Fallout ( 1997 ), while also being played alongside their songs, " I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire " and " Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall " on the in-game radio station Galaxy News Radio in Fallout 3.

* Mothership Zeta, a place available as downloadable content for the game Fallout 3