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Next year’s Fallout 76 major expansion will explore a ‘prequel story to Fallout 3’
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Explained simply
Fallout 76 is an online multiplayer game developed by Bethesda Game Studios set in a post-nuclear American wasteland. The game regularly receives major expansions that add new storylines and locations, with the next one expected in 2027.
Fallout 3 is an earlier game in the long-running Fallout series, released in 2008. A prequel story explores events that happened before an established game's timeline, adding backstory and context to the wider world.
This expansion will set its narrative before Fallout 3's events, potentially filling gaps in the franchise's history that fans have not previously encountered. For players invested in the Fallout universe, prequels typically deepen understanding of how the world reached the state depicted in later games.