Bethesda Game Studios officially announced Fallout 4 at E3, unveiling the game's first trailer and providing details on its development.
Fallout 4 was released worldwide for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, becoming one of the best-selling games of the year.
Bethesda released the Creation Kit for Fallout 4, allowing players to create and share custom mods for the game.
Bethesda announced Fallout 4 VR, a virtual reality adaptation of the original game designed for VR headsets.
Fallout 4 VR officially launched for HTC Vive, bringing the Fallout 4 experience to virtual reality.
The player character, known as the Sole Survivor, is cryogenically frozen in Vault 111 shortly before the Great War and emerges decades later to search for their kidnapped child and survive in the Commonwealth wasteland.
The Sole Survivor encounters Preston Garvey and eventually assists the Minutemen in defending settlements, revitalizing the faction throughout the Commonwealth.
After tracking down their kidnapped son, Shaun, the Sole Survivor learns about the Institute, a secretive organization responsible for advanced technology and synthetic humans called Synths.
The Sole Survivor comes face-to-face with Father, the leader of the Institute and their missing son, Shaun, who is now an adult and head of the organization.
The Sole Survivor must decide to support the Minutemen, Institute, Brotherhood of Steel, or Railroad, which will determine the fate of the Commonwealth and the future of humanity's technological progress.
