I'm enjoying Fall Out now 4 episodes in ... and the wifey is not hating it. I was aware of the game but never played it.
The set and scenery, all be it mostly cgi I'm sure, is fantastic with the 1950's flair in the future ... just like the game.
The writing is excellent. I've had several "WHAT?" and lol moments.... The acting is decent. Apparently the hardcore Fall Out community is very satisfied with the show ...
unlike the Halo series that was based off of another video game. They went way off the reservation with that one and fans of the game hated it.
Amazon did it right with Fall Out. If they can keep the actors and writers, this will be a hit for several seasons I'm sure.
I liked Halo... more than FO. It wasn't as hokey -and they were clearly going for hokey with FO, which seemed to have worked for a lot of viewers as humor.
I didn't play either game.
I played Halo and can tell you, the story line in the games were way better than the show.
Playing the game, it was humans against the aliens ... they made the show be humans against other humans. Why? We didn't want to root against humans.
Spartans fighting Spartans? That's for online gaming against your friends. That wasn't the story. They ruined it.
Not as tv story telling, they didn't.
Did the aliens have motivation or background in the game or was it just about killing aliens/bosses and getting to the next screen?
The Halo tv series was loosely based on the game story ... the aliens attempting to acquire an artifact that would transport them to heaven ...
the humans fear that it is a weapon. They are at war ... so no, not just humans killing bugs.
In the game, Master Chief was a cold hearted bad az throughout ... childhood trauma would not have ever be a thing like it was in the show.
And then the love story ... It felt like they were attempting to appeal to the female demographic but at the cost of losing their main demographic, the hard core Halo gamers.
My coworker, a gamer and a fan of the Halo games, couldn't get past episode 4 of that series before tapping out. He hated it. Conversely, he can't stop raving about the Fall Out series.