Fallout: New Vegas
A great example of the simple-but-effective first-person wasteland intro, 2010 action role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas shows you a ruined America, as gray and hostile as an undiscovered planet. But it isn’t completely unfamiliar.
“War,” the narrator says, after you watch someone dig a shallow grave. “War never changes.” And life is unfair. “You are a courier,” it continues, but “what seemed like a simple delivery job has taken a turn for the worse.” Then you’re in first person, and you’re being shot in the head. Goddamn it. This goes on the anti-mood board that depicts events to avoid in 2023.
