Editing Fallout 2 (section)

{{Short description|1998 video game}}
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{{Infobox video game
| title = Fallout 2
| image = PC Game Fallout 2.jpg
| developer = [[Black Isle Studios]]
| publisher = [[Interplay Productions]]{{efn|[[MacPlay]] published the Mac OS X version.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Samhain |first1=Cynn |title=Fallout 2 For Mac |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/07/02/fallout-2-for-mac |website=[[IGN]] |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]] |access-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705094414/https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/07/02/fallout-2-for-mac |archive-date=5 July 2022 |date=2 July 2002}}</ref>|lead=yes}}
| producer = {{Unbulleted list|Eric DeMilt|[[Feargus Urquhart]]}}
| designer = {{Unbulleted list|Feargus Urquhart|Matthew J. Norton}}
| programmer = Jesse Reynolds
| artist = {{Unbulleted list|Gary Platner|Tramell Ray Isaac}}
| writer = Mark O'Green
| composer = [[Mark Morgan (composer)|Mark Morgan]]<br />Rick Jackson
| series = ''[[Fallout (franchise)|Fallout]]''
| platforms = {{Unbulleted list|[[Windows]]|[[Mac OS X]]}}
| released = {{Unbulleted list|'''Windows'''|October 29, 1998<ref name="NARel">{{cite web |url=http://headline.gamespot.com/news/98_10/26_fallout/index.html |title=Fallout 2 Ships |author=Mullen, Micheal |date=October 26, 1998 |website=[[GameSpot]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000610191645/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/98_10/26_fallout/index.html |archive-date=June 10, 2000 |url-status=dead |access-date=November 13, 2019}}</ref>|'''Mac OS X'''|August 23, 2002<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-02-20 |title=MacPlay |url=http://www.macplay.com/press/pr-fallout2-ships.php |access-date=2023-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050220065242/http://www.macplay.com/press/pr-fallout2-ships.php |archive-date=February 20, 2005 }}</ref>}}
| genre = [[Role-playing video game|Role-playing]]
| modes = [[Single-player]]
}}

'''''Fallout 2''''' (also known as '''''Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game''''') is a 1998 [[role-playing video game]] developed by [[Black Isle Studios]] and published by [[Interplay Productions]]. It is a sequel to ''[[Fallout (video game)|Fallout]]'' (1997), featuring similar graphics and [[game mechanics]]. The game's story takes place in 2241, 79 years after the events of ''Fallout'' and 164 years after the atomic war which reduced the vast majority of the world to a nuclear wasteland.<ref name="FOBible0">{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Avellone |author-link=Chris Avellone |title=Fallout Bible 0 |work=Black Isle |date=March 8, 2002 |url=http://feedback.blackisle.com/downloads/fallout_bible_0_pdf.zip |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226133641/http://feedback.blackisle.com/downloads/fallout_bible_0_pdf.zip |archive-date=December 26, 2018 |access-date=April 3, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The player assumes the role of [[The Chosen One (trope)|the Chosen One]], the grandchild of the first game's protagonist, and undertakes a quest to save their small village on the [[West Coast of the United States]].<ref name="story">{{cite web |year=1998 |url=http://www.interplay.com/fallout2/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031204121000/http://www.interplay.com/fallout2/story.html |work=Fallout 2 Website |publisher=[[Interplay Entertainment|Interplay]] |title=The Story |archive-date=December 4, 2003 |access-date=September 3, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

''Fallout 2'' was well received by critics, who praised its gameplay and storyline, and considered it a worthy successor to the original ''Fallout'' and one of the [[List of video games considered the best|greatest games of all time]]. Its bugs and limited updates to the formula of the first game attracted criticism. In 2008, it was followed by a sequel, ''[[Fallout 3]]'', developed by [[Bethesda Game Studios]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Bradon |last2=Boyer |date=April 13, 2007 |title=Fallout IP Sold To Bethesda |url=https://www.gamedeveloper.com/pc/-i-fallout-i-ip-sold-to-bethesda |access-date=April 19, 2022 |website=Game Developer |language=en |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325063346/https://www.gamedeveloper.com/pc/-i-fallout-i-ip-sold-to-bethesda |url-status=live }}</ref>