A short teaser for Fallout Season 2 has hit the web, displaying a brand new have a look at New Vegas.
The clip, proven in the course of the Amazon Upfront livestream in a single day, was captured and uploaded on reddit. It reveals Lucy (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) 50 miles out from what was Las Vegas. We hear the well-known Geiger Counter sound, signifying radiation is within the air. The Ghoul and Lucy have a look at one another earlier than heading in the direction of New Vegas, and we get a superb have a look at the post-apocalyptic metropolis skyline.
New Vegas is after all the setting for the Obsidian-developed Fallout: New Vegas, and the setting for Season 2 of the Fallout adaptation.
So, what can we study concerning the present’s tackle New Vegas from this teaser? Well, it’s extra detailed than the transient look we acquired at New Vegas on the finish of Season 1, which stands to purpose. It will look acquainted to anybody who’s performed New Vegas, though it seems extra densely filled with buildings (the online game New Vegas was a comparatively sparse location).
The standout is after all the Lucky 38 Resort and Casino, which is on the New Vegas Strip. In the New Vegas online game, the Lucky 38 is the pre-War on line casino from which Mr. House runs town. Fans additionally imagine they’ll make out the Ultra-Luxe, however in reality it’s onerous to discern particular person online game areas from the shot right here.
Warning! Potential spoilers for the Fallout TV present comply with.
The present is confirmed to be heading to New Vegas for Season 2, and it isn’t simply concerning the location itself. Mr. House is set to be a part of the new season, although how concerned he’ll be is unclear. We’ve already seen the tease of some acquainted sights due to earlier set leaks, together with this video that reveals a part of New Vegas and the enduring Lucky 38 resort and on line casino, all vivid and lit up. It’s definitely removed from the rusty place you may count on.
It’s price remembering the place we’re within the Fallout timeline: the TV present is ready within the yr 2296, after all of the Fallout video video games. Fallout 4 takes place within the yr 2287, whereas Fallout: New Vegas is ready within the yr 2281, a full 15 years previous to the occasions of the present.
So, what occurred within the 15 years since we final noticed New Vegas? Co-showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet have mentioned the setting has modified, and defined why that’s necessary for followers to notice.
“All we actually need the viewers to know is that issues have occurred, in order that there is not an expectation that we decide the present up in Season 2, following one of many myriad canon endings that rely in your decisions whenever you play [Fallout: New Vegas],” Wagner mentioned final yr.
“With that post-credits stuff, we actually needed to indicate, guys, the world has progressed, and the concept the wasteland stays as it’s decade-to-decade is preposterous to us. It’s only a place [of] fixed tragedy, occasions, horrors — there is a fixed churn of trauma. We’re positively implying extra has occurred.”
But what’s going to occur when the Power Armor-clad Overseer Hank, performed by Kyle MacLachlan, turns up (probably after a dustup with a Deathclaw)? Some speculate Mr. House, the enigmatic ruler of New Vegas within the online game and dastardly boss of RobCo Industries within the TV present’s flashbacks to earlier than the bombs fell, might enlist the assistance of Hank to revive New Vegas to its former glory. Perhaps, if that’s the best way the story goes, the forces of Mr. House and New Vegas will find yourself taking over the Brotherhood of Steel in one more Fallout faction battle, with Lucy, Maximus, and The Ghoul caught within the center.
Overnight, Amazon introduced a December 2025 launch window for Season 2, and confirmed Season 3. Last week, Aaron Moten, who performs Brotherhood of Steel hopeful Maximus, mentioned the “endpoint” of the Fallout TV present has it working till Season 5 or Season 6.
We had a good time with Season 1, writing in IGN’s Fallout The Series evaluate that the present is “a vivid and humorous apocalypse stuffed with darkish punchlines and bursts of ultra-violence [and is] among the many greatest online game variations ever made,” slapping it with a well-earned 9/10.
To assist tide you over till Season 2, this is our interview with Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan protecting all our burning questions after the tip of Season 1.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
