Just finished the season. Spoilers ahead so fair warning. Pedictive programming contained nukes, cannibalism, elites, and cults.
Background: Nukes are dropped. Some citizens evacuate cities to fallout shelters created by a corporation called Vault tec, to escape, live, and re-populate the earth.
Take a guess who strategizes dropping the nukes and for what reasons. All reasons we here are familiar with. Interesting the faction exposing the truth behind the lie is called New California Republic. New California also trying to recover cold fusion tech.
Edit: i never played the game so I don't know how much the series story jives with the in-game story.
Lots of callbacks to earlier games. But, a lackluster endeavor. I liked it but the story is weak.really weak. The characters are fun, I like Maximu's road to redemption. This is the Flynn we deserved in Star Wars. But we got the message bs. Lucy is awesome, her naiveness is refreshing and I loved it. Aftermath survivors look at her like she's an alien, Hahaha. The Ghoul is awesome as well. Not a nice guy not even a little. Each character has their own driving force. So the let down is the events and special encounters. The game designers could write circles around these hollywood hacks. Weak, weak, story. Nonsense ( vault 4) nonsensical storyline. A waste of good material. I believe Amazon will cancel the show. IMO. weak world building weak story.ham fisted pacing.
The character development and quality was decent. Didn't dawn on me until you pointed it out. I'm so used to looking for predictive programming ever since joining frens here 🐸. Y'all trained me well.