Fallout 2 Overview

Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is the sequel to Fallout. Released on October 29, 1998 exclusively for PC, it was developed by Black Isle Studios, a division of publisher Interplay Entertainment.

Story
In Fallout 2, Arroyo is suffering from the worst drought on record. Faced with this hardship, the village elder asks the direct descendant of the Vault Dweller, referred to as the Chosen One, to retrieve a Garden of Eden Creation Kit, or G.E.C.K, for the village. This device can create thriving communities out of the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

After completing the Temple of Trials, the Chosen One is given the Vault Dweller's jumpsuit, a RobCo Pip-Boy 2000 device, a Vault 13 water flask, and some money to start their journey. During their travels, they learn of an entity known as the New California Republic that seeks to spread its borders and directly encounter a mysterious technologically advanced organization known as the Enclave.

Returning to Arroyo reveals the village residents were either killed or kidnapped by the Enclave, along with the inhabitants of Vault 13, to serve as human test subjects. The Enclave has modified Forced Evolutionary Virus into an airborne pathogen, intended to exterminate those who have genetic mutations, which includes the majority of the wasteland's population. The Chosen One must commandeer an oil tanker to reach the Enclave's main base on an offshore oil rig in order to save the imprisoned wastelanders and kidnapped village people, including the village elder.