Modders want you to play Fallout 2 in the Fallout 4 engine.
Fallout 2 was released in September 1998, more than 25 years ago. Of course, the role-playing game’s age can be seen today, but a fan remake wants to change that. Under the name Project Arroyo, modders are working on transferring Fallout 2 to the much more modern engine of Fallout 4. A new trailer now shows what the world will look like.
Back to Arroyo
In the new video, the developers of the Fallout project show what the locations from Fallout 2 look like in the new 3D graphics. It’s best to take a look for yourself:
2:10
Project Arroyo shows well-known locations from Fallout 2 in modern graphics in the trailer
Right at the beginning we take a look at the temple in Arroyo, which we explore when the game starts. Later in the video, the developers also show its interior. Radioactively contaminated caves, settlements and more can also be seen, and there is also a bit of action.
The graphic quality of Fallout 4 was not one of the role-playing game’s greatest strengths when it was released in 2015. You can compare how big the difference is to the original Fallout graphics using these screenshots:
Project Arroyo uses the engine of Fallout 4, which is about 17 years younger than Fallout 2.
Of course, a lot more changes in the fan remake than just the look: Instead of turn-based battles, there are now real-time battles. In addition, content that was planned for the original but then deleted will also find its way into the new edition. The soundtrack and dialogues will also be completely re-recorded, but this is also due to legal restrictions.
You can find out more about Project Arroyo here, among other places Twitter-Channel and the official one Discord-Server of the project. It is not yet clear when the remake can be expected to be released.
Even if Fallout 5 and Project Arroyo are still a long time coming, fans of the radioactive post-apocalypse don’t just have to suffer. In April, not only Amazon’s Fallout series will be released, but also a new, fan-developed offshoot of the series set in destroyed London. You can read why this is the best announcement in years for me in my column linked above.
