Fallout Extreme

Fallout Extreme is a canceled squad-based first and third-person tactical action game set in the Fallout series. It was planned to release on PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game systems. The game was in development by 14° East and would have been published by Interplay Entertainment.
==Development==
On November 22, 2000, the game's proposal was presented to Interplay, but was rejected and never materialized. Its existence was unknown until the design document was leaked online on January 27, 2010.Kieron Gillen, No More Than Words: Fallout Extreme - Rock Paper Shotgun The game was in development for several months in 2000, but never had a concrete development team; all that is known is Brian Christian, the head of 14° East, was the lead producer and Todd J. Camasta was the art director. It never proceeded past the conceptual phase.
==Gameplay==
The game would have been able to be played in the first or third-person perspective. The player would control a four-person squad of specialized characters, and be able to switch the active member at any moment. The squad could consist of ordinary wastelanders, former Brotherhood of Steel members, super mutants, and Native American and Mongol warriors. Single and multiplayer modes were planned for the game, including squad campaign, deathmatch, capture the flag, assault, squad deathmatch, squad capture the flag, and squad assault.
It was not going to be just a shooter, but rather "a game of action, tactics, and strategies; where moving your squad into position, planning and falling back is just as essential as having the biggest guns". The world map was divided into territories, each of which had different layouts, populated by various enemies and different geographical strategic significance. One's strategy would come into play based not only on the tactics employed for a given mission; as the dynamics of each mission would be different based on whether the player entered the territory from the west, south, north, etc. For example, to get to a particular territory, one could choose either to charge through an enemy stronghold or to sneak around through adjacent territories to flank the enemy.
Missions would also be interconnected and the player's choices would have consequences. For example, if the player destroyed a bridge in the territory of one mission, the enemy forces might be weakened in the next one because of a lack of reinforcements. Conquering and holding territories with productive towns would be essential for establishing and maintaining supply lines. If there was a supply camp nearby, the player's access to various kinds of weapons, ammunition, etc. would be constant and reliable. The player could even close off a territory, forcing enemy troops to pass through another territory where an ambush could be set up.
After completing a given mission, the player would move their squad to outlying camp areas, where new characters for the roster squad (max. 16) could be recruited and different members could be assigned to the active four-person squad for the next missions. Members of the roster not on the active squad could be sent as scouts to adjacent territories or deployed into newly conquered territories to hold the fort. If a character died, they would clear space in the roster, allowing the player to recruit new members.
At any time during a mission, the player could switch and control any of their four squad members, each of whom had different perks and specialize in different weapons. In the meantime, the other characters could be issued various standing orders. However, characters also had personality traits that would determine how they would react under different stresses. Each character would gain experience points, which would allow them to increase combat skills or unlock perks.
==Setting and story==
According to the design document, the game would have taken place almost a century after the Great War.
The Brotherhood of Steel, the "once silent organization," has been expanding and seizing more and more territory under its control. Their area of influence stretches as far as Alaska, where their new headquarters is now located. Their agenda "leaves little room for the survival of radiation or Forced Evolutionary Virus outbreak victims." Local humans are either drafted into their ranks as cannon fodder or enslaved, and mutants are outright eradicated. They are whom the player would oppose during the first half of the game.
The player controls a squad of revolutionaries known as the Cause. Throughout the game, they would gain momentum, starting in Oregon, then north through Washington, Canada, and eventually reaching Alaska. Each reclaimed town would vow loyalty to the Cause.
However, after defeating them, the player would learn why the Brotherhood set out to Canada and Alaska in the first place. The Cause must now venture across the Bering Strait, through Russia, Mongolia, and finally into China, in order to disarm the Doom's Day Missile that would obliterate what is left of the United States of America. The endgame would then take place within the Forbidden City, where the Chinese Emperor resides.
==Characters==
* Abel - Human, squad leader. Abel would have been a good leader figure that would have helped to get the revolution off the ground, the expected underdog visionary who would have done most of the negotiating when the initial group would have set out on its revolution. The image of Paladin Ryczek from Fallout Tactics was used as his placeholder portrait in the design document.
** Special Ability 1: Stealth Walk - soundless, almost invisible movement
** Special Ability 2: Two-Fisted - can fire two preferred weapons at the same time
** Special Move 1: Shooting ground barrel roll
** Special Move 2: Dodge/tumbles - flips and cartwheels to avoid fire
* Big Betty - Super mutant, heavy arms specialist. Big Betty would have been the "good shine" of super mutants involved in the Cause. The heaviest supporter, the gruffest, and the best shot.
** Special Ability 1: Infrared Sight - heat detection, not night vision
** Special Ability 2: Improved Hearing - think Bionic Woman
** Special Move 1: High Jump - jumps 2x the normal height
** Special Move 2: Can pick up and throw people.
* Caleb - Human, precision arms specialist. He would have been a member of the Cause, specialized in handling precision weaponry. The group's smart ass, the "pragmatic" one who can't believe he's joined up with such a group of losers; they're lucky they have him, or all would be lost. He is all precision and accuracy, no wasted shots. Doesn't mind showing off, either.
* UberDan - Human, demolition specialist. He would have been a member of the Cause, specialized in handling explosives. Steady hands, steady nerves, can't get excited about anything, even when the extra adrenaline really would be appreciated. Not exactly the hero; better at staying alive.
* The Chinese Emperor - Main antagonist of the second half of the game.
==Factions==
===Brotherhood of Steel===
The "once silent organization" has been expanding and seizing more and more territory under its control. Their area of influence stretches from Fort Willamette in Oregon into Alaska, where the Brotherhood's new headquarters is now located. The Brotherhood's agenda "leaves little room for the survival of radiation or FEV outbreak victims." Local humans are either drafted into the Brotherhood's ranks as cannon fodder or enslaved, and mutants are outright eradicated. It is the Brotherhood that the player would oppose during the first half of the game.
Eventually, their iron-fisted rule would result in the revolutionary force known as the Cause rising up and overthrowing them about a century after the Great War. However, it would be revealed that the post-War Chinese Empire still threatened the former United States, which the Brotherhood had sought to stop. The Cause would manage to cross the Bering Strait and end the threat of the Chinese Empire.
===The Cause===
The player characters are all members of the Cause, a group of revolutionaries, fighting first against the oppressive regime of the Brotherhood of Steel, and then Imperial China. This gang arose from the settlements around Mount Hood. After initial success in Washington and Oregon, destroying a major Brotherhood fort and gaining recruits from surrounding communities, they proceeded north. They pushed through Canada and into Alaska, wiping out Brotherhood positions and locations all the while.
Only after almost completely wiping out the organization do they learn the reason for the push north: Imperial China is constructing a Doom's Day Missile to completely destroy the remnants of the United States of America once and for all. The Brotherhood of Steel had been attempting to reach Beijing and destroy the missile before it can be completed.
The Cause adopts the Brotherhood's mission and crosses the Bering Strait into the remains of Russia. They pass through Mongolia, fighting a group of raiders known as the Horde of Huns, and finally reach China. They defeat the Army of the Golden Tiger and New Imperial Guard, kill the Chinese Emperor, and ultimately destroy the nuclear missile.
===Other factions===
* Issaquah NationFallout Extreme game proposal: "Later as [the Cause] venture[s] through other territories in their quest to stop the Brotherhood, they encounter other characters of the post-Apocalyptic world, like disturbingly violent Issaquah shamans, mutant gangsters and ex-Brotherhood turncoats."Fallout Extreme game proposal: "Refugees from the major urban populations banded into smaller settlements and medieval like townships. Isolated survivalists that are encountered remind one of Grizzly Adams. The Issaquah Nation presently controls the inland landscape."
* Montauk
* InuitFallout Extreme game proposal: "The Brotherhood of Steel's newest headquarters are established here, and is the heart of their revitalized military machine. Placid Inuit tribes have in the post-nuclear world, turned into fierce territorial warriors and are the true masters of the land, running a resistance right under the Brotherhood's noses."
* Kodiak
* HunsFallout Extreme game proposal: "Roving, warring bands of Mongolians who've decided to revive that whole 'horde' mentality."Fallout Extreme Xbox concept submission draft: "Fallout Extreme mixes the familiar characters from the Fallout line--including super mutant gang-bangers, slimy merchants, ghoulish refugees, post-Apocalyptic paladins, and crazed cultists--with the new factions introduced in Fallout Extreme Hawk man braves of the Issaquah Nation; survivalist bands of the Montauk; Chinese post-Apocalyptic warlords; the Horde of Huns riding astride the vicious Werebeasts; fanatic Imperial Guardsmen who protect their Emperor beyond death; beastling servants of the Brotherhood; and not least of all the merciless knights of the Brotherhood of Steel."
* Siberian CossacksFallout Extreme game proposal: "Cold Siberian wastelands give way to mountainous terrain and cold deserts. This is the kind of place that breeds hordes of Cossacks. Open plateaus, rocky steppes."
* Army of the Golden Tiger
* New Imperial GuardFallout Extreme Xbox concept submission draft: "Fallout Extreme mixes the familiar characters from the Fallout line--including super mutant gang-bangers, slimy merchants, ghoulish refugees, post-Apocalyptic paladins, and crazed cultists--with the new factions introduced in Fallout Extreme Hawk man braves of the Issaquah Nation; survivalist bands of the Montauk; Chinese post-Apocalyptic warlords; the Horde of Huns riding astride the vicious Werebeasts; fanatic Imperial Guardsmen who protect their Emperor beyond death; beastling servants of the Brotherhood; and not least of all the merciless knights of the Brotherhood of Steel."
==Locations==
Location details	Location details 	Location details 	Location details
Chapter 	Name 	Description 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Mount Hood 	Several settlements are located around the mountain. These would have been the origin of the Cause. 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Fort Willamette 	Brotherhood stronghold 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	The Sound 	A location in the former state of Washington. 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Issaquah Nation settlements 	After the War, the city was rebuilt, and would eventually become the capital of the Issaquah Nation. 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Vault 6 	Located at Mount St. Helens, this shelter ran an experiment allowing small doses of radiation to be released into the Vault once a day. This resulted in the population turning into an aggressive pack of extremely irradiated feral ghouls. 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Mount St. Helens 	A Brotherhood of Steel experimentation lab was set up here, alongside Vault 6 existing inside the mountain. 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Seattle Underground 	 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Capitol Hill, Seattle 	 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Troll Warren 	This super mutant settlement city would eventually be taken over by the Cause. 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Kodiak base 	 	
Chapter One:
Pacific Northwest of America	Montauk preserve 	The remains of a pre-War Native reserve belonging to the Montauk. 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	Brotherhood North American Forward Operations Base	 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	Libertyville (shanty town) 	 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	Alaskan Pipeline 	Underground BoS prisoner network 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	Brotherhood re-education camps 	Little is known about this location, except that it was located somewhere in the Bering Strait region. It is likely this is where the Brotherhood of Steel would take their prisoners for reconditioning after transporting them through the Alaskan Pipeline. The camps would eventually be destroyed by the Cause. 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	Satellite relay station Tango-Echo 	 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	Abandoned USAF nuclear silos 	These are a few of the many nuclear missile silos dotted across the remains of the United States of America, emptied of their payloads during the Great War. 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	The Great Convocation 	Inuit settlement 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	Anchorage, Alaska ruins 	 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	Aleutian research station 	The research station is located in the Bering Strait region. 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	Port Liberty 	 	
Chapter Two:
Bering Strait	The Last Ranger station 	Located in the Bering Strait region. 	
Chapter Three:
Northeast Asia	Re-education Colony 	 	
Chapter Three:
Northeast Asia	Abandoned oil refineries 	These are a few of the many oil refineries dotted across the globe, long made useless with the consumption of all the world's oil. 	
Chapter Three:
Northeast Asia	Soviet steppes villages 	 	
Chapter Three:
Northeast Asia	The Herd lands 	This would have been the source of the Horde of Huns, a large raider tribe. The Cause would have had to fight their way through in order to advance into China. 	
Chapter Four:
China	The Little Red Cafe 	Under the control of the Army of the Golden Tiger. 	
Chapter Four:
China	Army of the Golden Tiger encampment 	One of the biggest settlements under control of the Army of the Golden Tiger in China. 	
Chapter Four:
China	Beijing 	The new emperor resided within the Forbidden City, a large fortified palace inside the city. The Chinese remnants began building a nuclear missile here to wipe out the United States, known as the Doom's Day Missile. The Brotherhood of Steel learned of this and tried to invade Asia, but they were overtaken and destroyed by a gang known as the Cause before they could get there. This gang would go on to take the same mission and invade the city. They successfully managed to kill the Chinese Emperor and destroy the missile. The area was often attacked by the Horde of Huns from Mongolia.	
Chapter Four:
China	The People's Nuclear Missile Silos 27 and 31 	These are two of the many nuclear missile silos dotted across the remains of China, emptied of their payloads during the Great War. It is possible that one would have been the launch site of the Doom's Day Missile. 	
Chapter Four:
China	The Emperor's Gardens 	 	
Chapter Four:
China	The Forbidden City 	 	
==Weapons==
==Behind the scenes==
The game's design document is presently archived in the Brian Fargo Papers at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, limited to on-site researchers only.
==Gallery==
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==See also==
* Fallout Extreme Game Proposal
* Fallout Extreme Xbox concept submission document
* Fallout 'X' - Test World design document
==External links==
* YouTube video by the Strong National Museum of Play
==References==
 
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