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The Fallout intro are opening cinematics in Fallout.
Background[]
The first video provides an overview of the themes and important aspects of the game, including Vault-Tec, nuclear war, and the respite of the Vaults. The viewer is introduced to the conflict overseas and subsequent current violence underway. Advertisements give insight into the aesthetic of the time, introducing products and the general retro-futuristic style. The video cuts out, setting the tone for the subsequent narration.
Overview[]
The intro begins with "Maybe" by The Ink Spots and a screen of a Radiation King television set showing a Vault-Tec ad for Vault 13, featuring the Vault Boy watering plants and waving at the camera as the Vault blast door closes, followed by the "Vault of the Future" picture.
Then a Galaxy News Network (GNN) program starts, stating that "Our dedicated boys keep the peace in newly annexed Canada" and showing two American soldiers in power armor executing a Canadian insurgent and waving at the camera. A power-armored soldier is then shown in front of the American flag with 13 stars and a war bond ad. Next, ads for Corvega and Mister Handy appear before the TV shuts down and the music echoes into the latent ambiance of the destroyed world. This occurs as the camera pulls out from close up of the television screen and slowly reveals the ruins the television set stands on and the open view of Necropolis from the half-collapsed structure.
Narration[]
After the cinematic intro, a series of still photographs with narration by Ron Perlman follows.
The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth.
Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory.
Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.
But war never changes.
In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth.
In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.
A few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground Vaults. Your family was part of that group that entered Vault Thirteen. Imprisoned safely behind the large Vault door, under a mountain of stone, a generation has lived without knowledge of the outside world.
Life in the Vault is about to change.”— Ron Perlman, Fallout introOverseer intro[]
The overseer intro is a cutscene designed to give the player character the first quest and background information about the situation at hand in Vault 13.
We've got a problem. A big one. The controller chip for our water purification system has given up the ghost. Can't make a new one and the process is too complicated for a work around system. Simply put, we're running out of drinking water. No water, no Vault.
This is crucial to our survival. And frankly, I...I think you're the only hope we have. You need to go find us another controller chip. We estimate we have four to five months before the Vault runs out of water. We need that chip. I've marked your map with the location of another Vault. Not a bad place to start I think.
Look, just be safe, OK?”— Vault 13 overseer, Fallout overseer introNotes[]
The Telephone exchange name for Vault-Tec is KL-5743, which is the equivalent of a fictitious 555 number. The KL specifically stands for KLondike.