Bryan Vitale
RPG SiteFallout 76 Review | RPG Site
Published 11/21/2018
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Series X|S / PS4 / PC / PS5 / XONE - 11/14/2018
Fallout 76
Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall you and your fellow Vault Dwellers, chosen from the nation’s best and brightest, emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe.
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- Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
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Critic avg
52
55 scored reviews
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55
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Score range
0–92
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Score range is 31+ points
Critic landscape
The critic average is 52 across 55 scored reviews, with a 92-point spread. Critics are far apart on this one.
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Most scored reviews currently sit in the Below 70 band.
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90–1001 review · 2%
80–892 reviews · 4%
70–797 reviews · 13%
Below 7045 reviews · 82%
Showing 41-50 of 55 matching critic reviews. 55 total critic reviews. Page 5 of 6.
Edmond Tran
GameSpotFallout 76 Review - Scorched Earth
Published 11/21/2018
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Read originalPreston Dozsa
CGMagazineCGMagazine Fallout 76 Review
Published 11/20/2018
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30
-22 vs critic avg
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Read originalWesley Yin-Poole
EurogamerFallout 76 review - a bizarre, boring, broken mess
Published 11/20/2018
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Read originalPaul Tassi
ForbesForbes Fallout 76 Review
Published 11/20/2018
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Read originalShubhankar Parijat
GamingBoltFallout 76 Review – Fundamentally Flawed
Published 11/20/2018
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Read originalRobert Ramsey
Push SquareFallout 76 - A Shockingly Bad Attempt at Multiplayer Survival
Published 11/19/2018
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30
-22 vs critic avg
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Read originalZoe Delahunty-Light
GamesRadar+Fallout 76 review: “just as worn as the world it depicts, without any of the warmth” | GamesRadar+
Published 11/19/2018
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Read originalGarri Bagdasarov
PlayStation UniverseFallout 76 Review - PlayStation Universe
Published 11/19/2018
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70
+18 vs critic avg
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Read originalHolly Nielsen
The GuardianFallout 76 review – a pointless walk in the post-apocalypse
Published 11/19/2018
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