Fallout season 2 radiates NEW VEGAS with a trailer heavy on stupid sexy House and a December debut date

Fire up the geiger counter, the second series of Amazon’s Fallout TV series just showed off a trailer during Gamescom Opening Night Live. It premieres on 17th December.

If it wasn’t clear already, this chain of episodes is set to take us to NEW VEGAS. I said NEW VEGAS. That’s NEW VEGAS, the setting of obscure 2010 RPG Fallout: NEW VEGAS. Understand? I don’t think you do, so let’s all look over here while I point to this sign. It says Lucky 38, which is a casino in NEW VEGAS.

In all seriousness, I doth protest this much because I’m a NEW VEGAS fan who’s looking forward to taking in this second series of Fallout when it premieres in December. Ahead of that, this outing of it showed us The Ghoul and Lucy heading to New Vegas in pursuit of a certain someone (I won’t say who, to avoid series one spoilers). Between the trailer and little chat actors Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten and the showrunners had with the Geoffman, we look to be getting a lot more of that Purnell/Goggins duo rubbing off on each other in series two, which sounds great to me.

They’ll have to do a lot to pry my attention away from everyone’s favourite preservation tube-dwelling Fallout billionaire, though. After popping in briefly in series one, NEW VEGAS’ own Robert Edwin House looks to be playing a big role in series two. He and Walton Goggins’ Cooper Howard are having plenty of pre-war chats, which see the suave, moustachioed House stare deeply into the Goggler’s eyes while talking down to him just like he does to a certain videogame mailperson. Phwoar, Bob Residence. If you weren’t a shrivelled prune by the time my character reached you, they’d have stabbed you through some bedsheets after a round or two, rather than that Benny.

Despite all the NEW VEGAS, I’m keen to see whether, with all of of its major characters all now set up and past the early stages of a playthrough when you’re still convinced you’re not gonna resort to speccing into speech, the series does anything major to take Fallout places it’s not been. The likes of new factions or visits to locations the games haven’t touched, just to spice up the big screening of things we know and love. Though, I’m aware that’s something that I may well be in the minority on, given the massive popularity of the first series.

Either way, odds are Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and co will once again be the faces of a good post-apocalyptic adventure, and one that looks like it’s leaning heavily into pre-war flashbacks of NEW VEGAS in all its glory.

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