Fallout Extreme

About

Fallout Extreme was a canceled tactical shooter meant for Xbox and PlayStation 2 back in 2000. Players would have led a squad called The Cause against an expanding Brotherhood of Steel that started in Alaska. The gameplay shifted from defending towns in Oregon to fighting across Russia and China to stop a global missile threat. It used the Unreal Engine and planned for both single player and multiplayer modes before developers walked away with no concrete team ever formed. Details about this project stayed hidden until 2010 when documents surfaced online. Most people on PlayPile know Fallout games as RPGs, but this was a different take where you managed a unit rather than one lone hero. The concept art showed the Brotherhood looking like their later Tactics version, which fans found interesting given the shift in focus. Nothing playable ever existed beyond early designs, so we have no ratings or community data to share on actual performance. It remains a what could have been story for tactical gamers who wanted more than just shooting alone.

Storyline

It is unclear when exactly the game was going to take place. According to the summary in a design document, "almost a century has passed" since the Great War. The Brotherhood of Steel (in concept art, they appear similar to the Midwestern branch from Fallout Tactics), the "once silent organization", has been expanding and seizing more and more territory under their control. Their area of influence stretches as far as Alaska, where the Brotherhood's new headquarters is now located. The Brotherhood's agenda "leaves little room for the survival of radiation or FEV outbreak victims". Local humans are either drafted into the Brotherhood's ranks as cannon fodder or enslaved, and mutants are outright eradicated. It is the Brotherhood that the player would oppose during the first half of the game. The player controls a squad of revolutionaries known as The Cause. Throughout the game, it would gain momentum, starting in Oregon, Washington and Canada. Each reclaimed town would vow loyalty to the player's cause. However, after defeating the Brotherhood, the player would learn why the Brotherhood set out to Canada and Alaska in the first place. The rebels must now venture across the Bering Strait, through Russia and Mongolia and finally into China, in order to destroy the Doom's Day Missile that could obliterate what is left of America. The endgame would take place within the Forbidden City, where the Chinese Emperor resides. Among the factions encountered along the way would be the Issaquah Nation, the Inuits, the Montauk, the Horde of Huns, Siberian Cossacks and finally the Army of the Golden Tiger and New Imperial Guard.