For those that are too busy surviving super mutants and radiation poisoning to do their own investigative journalism, Game Rant is here to help. A lot can happen in the span of ten years, but given the lack of conventional news sources and infrastructure, survivors mostly have to take it upon themselves to fill in the blanks. RELATED: 10 Plot Holes In Fallout That Were Never Explainedįallout 3, in particular, begins in the year 2277, meaning that between the adventures of the Lone Wanderer and the emergence of the Sole Survivor, ten long years have come and gone. That's more than three hundred years of lore packed into the series, with more than two hundred of them taking place after the nuclear exchange that reduced the United States into the wasteland that we know and love.
The Fallout universe has a lengthy alternate history timeline, spanning from roughly the 1950s and into the year 2287, where the events of Fallout 4 begin to take place.
