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Fallout's three-game Classic Collection is free again on the Epic Store


As Dame Shirley Bassey once famously bellowed, "It's all just a little bit of history repeating". And so it is with thi…

And so it is with this week's Epic Games Store giveaway of the Fallout Classic Collection, which Tim Sweeney previously wafted at storeshop visitors in December 2022 and February this year. "From the unrelentingly bleak, darkly ironic tone to the novelty of the open-world, post-apocalyptic setting," Keza MacDonald wrote, "from the inspired, cerebral turn-based combat system to the immense degree of variety and personality in the character-customisation, the superbly-written quests and characters and the gallows humour that underpins the games without lessening their emotional impact, even the well-placed, gritty violence; there's very little about the games that doesn't command as much respect now as they did a decade ago." That last one, if it's previously managed to pass you by (I, also, was unfamiliar), comes from Saber Interactive, and is described as a "fun pick-up-and-play arcade-style football game featuring 7v7 team-focused gameplay with the unique Wild Card system that lets you change the course of the action in an instant with special power-ups and rule-breaking abilities."

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