Todd Howard dropped by Microsoft’s E3 presser today to give us our first gameplay look at
Fallout 76, a prequel to the post-apocalyptic series. Set in the hills of West Virginia,
Fallout 76 will be a whopping four times bigger than
Fallout 4, Howard said
. Judging by the trailer, it looks like the focus of the game is going to be on rebuilding the world after the bombs drop. Hope you like the settlement system in
Fallout 4, because there’s a good chance it’ll get expanded in
Fallout 76.
Bethesda first announced
Fallout 76 late last month with a teaser revealing the game’s title and not much else. But rumors began swirling immediately, and
Kotaku’s Jason Schreier reported later that same day that the game would likely be an online multiplayer survival game in the spirit of
DayZ and
Rust. It makes sense that the game won’t be a full-fledged entry in the
Fallout series so close to the release of
Fallout 4, given the time a Bethesda open-world RPG typically takes in development.
In this teaser trailer, we see a surprisingly intact wasteland doted with Power Armor, airplanes, new mutant monsters, and never-before-seen cities.