The Most-Anticipated Videogames Coming This Fall
Don't be too sad that summer's ending: It just means that the year's biggest videogames are about to start rolling out over the coming weeks. In the gallery above, we preview this fall's most-anticipated game releases headed to every console (and PC), from Red Dead Redemption 2 to a bunch of games that aren't Red Dead Redemption 2.
Out November 14 for PC/PS4/XB1. The first new Fallout game in three years serves as a prequel to the entire series, with a setting in the West Virginia hillside not too long after the start of the nuclear apocalypse. You'll play as one of the first survivors to leave your local fallout shelter, Vault 76, designed to house America's top minds.
But you won't be playing alone. Unlike previous titles in the series, Fallout 76 is an online multiplayer game—a first for developer Bethesda Game Studios. You can join up with friends (on the same platform only; there's no cross-play support) or strangers into a squad, or operate solo—though the latter option will definitely make things harder. Either way, every character you meet along the way will be controlled by another gamer, whom you can fight, work with, or ignore, and there's a built-in system to make things unpleasant for griefers.
The open-world setting will be four times the size of Fallout 4, divided into six distinct regions. Hidden within those regions are nuclear missile sites, and one of your tasks is to track down the codes needed to launch them. If you do, you can target anyone or anything with your nuke. A beta is expected in October (first on Xbox One), and the PC version will be available exclusively on Bethesda.net.
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