The second season of Fallout has been released on Prime Video — an adaptation of the game series. The series unfolds in a post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear catastrophe. The first season was commercially successful, attracting longtime fans and newcomers.
Todd Howard from Bethesda said that the idea for the adaptation arose back in 2009, but the project began after meeting with producer Jonathan Nolan.
He turned out to be a huge Fallout fan.
Emil Pagliarulo, design director at Bethesda, noted that the series remains canonical:
Everything that happens in the show happened or will happen in the games. Television is a completely different medium... We needed to accurately convey the tone, but they respected our vision.
The popularity of the show directly affected the games: prices for the series' games decreased, and content updates were released. Fallout 4 once again topped the charts, and Fallout 76 attracted a record number of players.
Producer Bill LaCoste said:
We always knew that players would come after the show.
Creative Director John Rush adds:
We create games together with the players.
Todd Howard confirmed that the events of the series will be taken into account in Fallout 5:
Fallout 5 will exist in a world where the events of the series are happening or have already happened.
