Bethesda Softworks ( Skyrim) took over the franchise starting with 2008's Fallout 3. There have been action heavy spinoffs like Fallout: Brotherhood Of Steel and the multiplayer shenanigans of 2018's Fallout 76.

The original Fallout was released in 1997 and the series has branched out in unique - and bizarre - ways ever since. The series is typically made up of role-playing action, where players have to explore a vast open world and battle raiders, mutated creatures and the unforgiving landscape itself. Fallout is a franchise that casts players as the survivor of a nuclear war, who emerges from an underground vault decades later and must learn to survive the bleak new world. Here's how players can find the elusive Vault 13 on the vast Fallout 2 map.