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Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is a turn-based tactical role-playing game developed by Micro Forté and published by 14 Degrees East, released in 2001 for Windows. This game features single-player and multiplayer modes.
Fallout Tactics is the third game in the Fallout series; it generally received positive reviews from the gaming press and was praised for its improvements compared to its predecessors.

Fallout Tactics takes place in the same post-apocalyptic universe where the Great War occurred followed by the nuclear apocalypse that spread all over the world. However to protect the remaining human beings several vaults were constructed.
Protected by the shields the offspring of these people could reclaim and repopulate the Earth. However, before the entire network could be completed, nuclear war broke out. One of the military vaults located in California emerged from the war determined to restore civilization.
By the use of their superior weapons, they were able to claim the surrounding wasteland. They eventually formed the Brotherhood of Steel, an organization dedicated to restoring civilization and reclaiming or developing new and better technologies.

However a split soon formed within the Brotherhood itself. One faction supported allowing human outsiders to join the organization. The other faction wanted to keep the Brotherhood pure and not accept outsiders.
Eventually the faction against expansion won out, and the other faction was sent across the mountains on great airships. A catastrophe occurred and only one of the airships remained but crashed near the ruins of Chicago.
At the beginning of Fallout Tactics the Brotherhood is trying to claim some territories surrounding the city as they want to establish a base there.

The Brotherhood, to be accepted, offers its protection to villages of tribals (humans), but also allows the Brotherhood to draft recruits from among the tribals.
So you will start to play as a character who is an Initiate, a new recruit to the Brotherhood, tasked to lead a squad of soldiers made up of available initiates. Then you will have to achieve different missions to take on Raiders and such as you attempt to protect the fragile respawning of civilization and discover the new threat to the west. You character will acquire new skills and abilities throughout the game.

Regarding the multiplayer mode it offers differences compared to the single-player mode. Indeed in the single-player mode you have to choose your main character among human recruits from the Brotherhood, whereas in multiplayer matches your character can be any of the six races featured in the game.

They are the super mutants on Fallout Tactics (hulking beasts, excellent at combat but lacking intelligence and agility); the ghouls (humans who have mutated due to the radiation of the wastes, they have extremely long lifespans, luckier and more perceptive); the deathclaws (massive beasts extremely strong, but can only use melee weapons); dogs (adapted to life in the wastelands, high perceptions and agility, but cannot use any tools or weapons); and humanoids robots (machines created to fight, strong , tough, and resistant to most attacks, immune to poison and radiations).

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