Should you had been in any respect nervous about Amazon’s Fallout TV present, it sounds such as you needn’t be as a result of it’s getting glowing critiques throughout the board forward of its debut.

The trailers actually made a optimistic impression, and there have been sufficient fashionable online game diversifications throughout TV and movie, resembling Netflix’s Arcane and Castlevania, to scrub the terrible style of years of unhealthy diversifications from our mouths. However there was nonetheless each probability Amazon would drop the ball with its tackle Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic RPG collection.

Fallout is about to drop all eight of its episodes later at the moment on April 10 at 6pm PT / 9pm EDT completely on Amazon Prime Video (UK followers might want to wait until tomorrow on April 11), and early critiques from critics have loads of reward for the present. IGN has gone as far as to name it “among the many finest sport diversifications ever made” alongside HBO’s The Final of Us, whereas Dexerto described it as “assured” and “spectacular.”

GameSpot’s assessment isn’t as overwhelmingly optimistic, calling the present’s tackle Fallout‘s wasteland setting “skinny and unmemorable,” but it surely in any other case complimented the compelling characters and robust performances from the principle solid. Polygon, in the meantime, has stated the present feels extra like a sequel than an adaptation; one which provides to the Fallout franchise and builds on its world whereas nonetheless being rooted in its “signature so-dark-you-have-to-laugh tone.” As such, you possibly can anticipate the present to very a lot match the vibes of the video games, with Home windows Central highlighting a “fittingly somber” soundtrack, full with “old-timey licensed tracks.”

Not each assessment has been as glowing, however that hasn’t held Fallout again from scoring 93% on Rotten Tomatoes on the time of writing. Amazon can be clearly assured the collection will do effectively contemplating, on April 8, a Selection report revealed Fallout‘s already been renewed for a second season, and might be filmed in California.