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| | '''Brotherhood of Steel''': The decedents of a group of soldiers and their families who, shortly before the war declared themselves in desertion from the U.S. Army. They more or less worship technology and seek to take all advanced technology from the hands of the wastelanders, although the reason varies from, "simple selfishness" to wanting to protect them from it. They are very secretive and xenophobic, and besides a few members and the detachment on the east coast could care less about what happens to the world unless it threatens them. By New Vegas, they have fought a costly war with the New California Republic and lost, at least on the west coast and are slowly dying because of their refusal to change their ways. | | '''Brotherhood of Steel''': The decedents of a group of soldiers and their families who, shortly before the war declared themselves in desertion from the U.S. Army. They more or less worship technology and seek to take all advanced technology from the hands of the wastelanders, although the reason varies from, "simple selfishness" to wanting to protect them from it. They are very secretive and xenophobic, and besides a few members and the detachment on the east coast could care less about what happens to the world unless it threatens them. By New Vegas, they have fought a costly war with the New California Republic and lost, at least on the west coast and are slowly dying because of their refusal to change their ways. |
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| − | '''Enclave''':Like the brotherhood of steel, they have ties to pre-war america and also xenophobic, butto a much more extreme degree. | + | '''Enclave''':Like the brotherhood of steel, they have ties to pre-war America and also xenophobic, but to a much more extreme degree. When they first show up in Fallout 2, they are in power armor, and kill most of the people inside vault 13 (the first games player's home) and establish themselves as being opposed to what most of the wasteland. Later they kidnap the player characters home village for evil experiments. Eventually, on an pre=-war oil rig, ou fight the president, a man leading the plan to use a modified FEV Virus to infect the jet-stream and cleanse (Genocide) North America so "Pure Strain" Humans can reclaim it.You can choose to join them, but canon has you blowing up the oil rig; afterwards "President John Henry Eden" a super-computer summons the remnants across the continent to reclaim Washington DC, intended to activate and infect "Project Purity" to both purify and poison the waters for any creature mutated in the wasteland. |
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| | The mainstream Fallout games have been received very well by both critics and consumers alike. Fallout 1 is frequently ranked among the top 100 games of all time; Fallout 2 has an average review score of 86/100 on Metacritic, which also gives Fallout 3 an review score of 92/100. | | The mainstream Fallout games have been received very well by both critics and consumers alike. Fallout 1 is frequently ranked among the top 100 games of all time; Fallout 2 has an average review score of 86/100 on Metacritic, which also gives Fallout 3 an review score of 92/100. |
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| − | The series has been roundly criticized for their complete disregard for [[morality]], as they include [[drug]] use, [[theft]], [[prostitution]], [[slavery]], and [[murder]], although doing any of these actions usually results in a decline in your karmaic standing. | + | The series has been roundly criticized for their complete disregard for [[morality]], as they include [[drug]] use, [[theft]], [[prostitution]], [[slavery]], and [[murder]], although doing any of these actions usually results in a decline in your karmaic standing and a general dislike by he populace of the wastes. |
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