Fallout Season 2 Review Roundup: Is The Show Is 'spinning Its...

Are critics giving Prime TV's new season of Fallout a Vault-Boy thumbs-up?

Fallout Season 2 is about to drop on us like an A-bomb (here's how to watch it, with a note that Episode 1 is arriving earlier than expected). Some lucky ducks, however—PC Gamer included—have already seen the first six episodes of Prime TV's eight-episode season.

Our verdict is already in: Weekend/AU Editor Jody MacGregor was worried that Season 2 couldn't live up to the first season, but wasn't disappointed. "Fallout hasn't simplified itself for second-screen viewers—it's still a show you need to pay attention to keep up with, and more importantly it's a show worth paying attention to," he says in his Fallout Season 2 review.

"The first season was full of great bits where the stars were absent, when it bounced back to Norm or over to Wilzig and Thaddeus and all the rest," Jody says. "Season 2 carries on some of those stories—Norm continues to be a highlight—and introduces new ones, like what Hank's actually up to in Vegas, which are as interesting as the activities of the core trio."

Even the fan service is handled well: "I imagine someone has a list of 'things that happen in Fallout games' with 'be addicted to chems' written on it near 'get a rocket-assisted super sledge'," Jody says, "and while that kind of fan-pleasing checklist-ticking can go wrong if overdone, Fallout pulls it off with a light touch."

Meanwhile, other outlets have also posted reviews of Fallout Season 2's first six episodes, and with a few exceptions, they're also mostly positive.

IGN scores the first six episodes with an 8/10, with reviewer Matt Purslow calling it "both a strong return to its uniquely bizarre post-apocalypse world and an admirably authentic adaptation of what made New Vegas distinct among its series peers. This story of warring factions, and the complex characters caught up in those conflicts, feels grander in scale than last year’s adventure, but no less detailed."

Total Film (at our sister site GamesRadar+) calls Season 2 "A hell of a lot of fun despite being overcrowded and convoluted," with reviewer Lauren Milici saying "Cooper Howard and the Ghoul's separate storyline merge into something deeply satisfying," though "the cuts back to the [Vault 31-33] feel like more of an interruption from the main storyline."

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