Fallout, Prime Video’s new video game adaptation, is off to an incredible start: the reviews are in, and it’s good news for its Rotten Tomatoes score.
The video game curse is officially a thing of the past. After the success of The Last of Us, Arcane, and the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, the subgenre is no longer the realm of constant disappointment.
Developed by Westworld’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy,Fallouttells a brand-new story set within Bethesda’s universe, following three survivors: Lucy (Ella Purnell), a Vault 33 resident who embarks into the real world; Maximus (Aaron Moten), a member of the Brotherhood of Steel; and the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a mutated gunslinger in southern California.
The reviews have dropped, and Fallout already ranks among the best video game adaptations ever: it’s currently sitting at 93%, which places it in the top five TV shows based on games. It’s just fallen short of Netflix’s Castlevania (94%),The Last of Us(96%),Cyberpunk: Edgerunners(100%), and Arcane (100%).
InDexerto’s four-star review, we called it “one of the most confident, impressive video game adaptations ever made” — and other outlets seem to agree.
IGNcalled it “a bright and funny apocalypse filled with dark punchlines and bursts of ultra-violence… Fallout is among the best video game adaptations ever made.”
Digital Spygave it a rave review, writing: “Fallout could very well end up being the kind of five-star show that people will obsess over in two centuries from now, huddled up in a vault watching old tapes of times gone by as the world burns outside.”
Empirepraised it for “expanding on the big ideas of the games, making it an adaptation worth watching both for fans and those unfamiliar.”
Fallout premieres on Prime Video on April 10 — find outexactly what time it dropswherever you are in the world, andhow you can watch it for free.
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Cameron Frew is Deputy TV & Movies Editor on Dexerto’s UK team. He’s an action movie aficionado, ’80s obsessive, and Oscars enthusiast. He loves Invincible, but he’s also a fan of The Boys, the MCU, The Chosen, and much more. He has previously written for LadBible, UniLad, and Flickering Myth. You can contact him at: cameron.frew@dexerto.com.
