Reception
| Fallout | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 91.92% |
| Metacritic | 89/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Allgame | |
| GamePro | |
| Game Revolution | A- (Mac) |
| GameSpot | 8.7/10 |
| PC Gamer US | 90/100 |
| PC Zone | 91/100 (UK) |
| Computer Gaming World | |
Fallout won the "RPG of the Year" award by GameSpot in 1997. It was nominated in the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' first annual Interactive Achievement Awards in the categories "Computer Role Playing Game of the Year" and "Outstanding Achievement in Sound and Music".
It was ranked as the fourth (2001), tenth (2005), 13th (2007), 21st (2008) and seventh (2010) best PC game of all time by PC Gamer, fifth (2007) and 19th (2009) top PC game of all time by IGN, and 21st (2007) best PC game ever by PC Zone. IGN also ranked it as the 55th (2005) and 33rd (2007) top video game of all time overall.
Fallout has been inducted into "Hall of Fame" or equivalent of Computer Gaming World, GameSpot, GameSpy and IGN, among others. In addition, Fallout was included on the lists of top ten best endings and best game worlds by GameSpot in 2000, and was ranked as the sixth top video game opening by Game Informer in 2008. In 2012, Fallout was exhibited as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's "The Art of Video Games" exhibition under the category of "adventure" games (as was its sequel, Fallout 3). Polish web portal Wirtualna Polska ranked it as the sixth most addictive game "that stole our childhood".
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