Gamers who've grown up wandering the irradiated wastelands of Bethesda Softworks' "Fallout" video game franchise since it first launched back in 1997 are popping open warm flat cans of Nuka-Cola to celebrate the impending arrival of Prime Video's live-action adaptation of the retro-futuristic survival classic.
According to official "Fallout" lore, World War III erupts on Oct. 23, 2077 with an atomic hailstorm of thermonuclear devices that immediately devastates the United States' major cities. This apocalyptic event forces civilians into networks of special underground vaults or out into the radioactive aftermath where post-apocalyptic humans struggle to stay alive amid the horror.
