The mainline single-player Fallout series is going to be on ice for a while to come yet with Bethesda almost entirely focused on finally getting The Elder Scrolls VI out into public hands before they have a riot to deal with.
Whilst that's obviously totally fair enough, it comes as scant consolation to long-time fans of Bethesda's post-apocalyptic wastes. The best thing to do in the meantime is to return to the excellent older games, the most recent of which is Fallout 4. If you haven't played it before and the Prime Video adaptation has given you a hankering, you might not realize that you don't necessarily need to pay for it.
Despite Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda’s parent company Zenimax Media, both PlayStation and Xbox players (as well as those on PC), can access Fallout 4 at no additional cost, if they're signed up to either PlayStation Plus Extra or Xbox Game Pass, at any level for the latter.
The third mainline game in the 3D era of the franchise, Fallout 4 had a bit of a divisive launch (not helped by the release of the Anniversary Edition ten years later), but it’s in a pretty solid...
