Not a great Fallout game, and also not a great online survival experience either... Failing at both consigns itself to a mire of mediocrity.

The bottom line is that Fallout 76 was an experiment that was created on an outdated engine incapable of implementing the vision Bethesda has for it. This has led the game into a full blown identity crisis, as it doesn't really play well as a single-player game, sucks at PvP, with its only saving grace being its multiplayer experience, specifically with friends. Sometimes it's better to be great at one thing than good (or not so good) at many things. Promised updates in the future may eventually get the game where it needs to be, but as of today, it's not what fans wanted or expected.

This is a beautifully realised, and visually stunning, post-apocalyptic role-playing game that happens to be online and can be played with other people. The detail that Bethesda have put into this world is nothing short of impressive!