Could a Pre-War Fallout prequel game work?

So all the Fallout games are in the apocalypse after nuclear weapons fell down because of World War 3, but would you guys wanna play a game that explained the events that led to the war? Or read a book about it? Or watch a movie?
 
And how are things with the rest of the world? Also, when the hell are people gonna start rebuilding stuff?
 
The Fallout world seems really interesting to me and I wanna know more, also, the war began in 2077 and yet everything is 50's style, how exactly do they explain that? did the world stop changing at that point in the universe and all the ideals and ideas from the 50's never went away? Been playing way to much New Vegas and I started thinking about this stuff

"...the war began in 2077 and yet everything is 50's style, how exactly do they explain that? did the world stop changing at that point in the universe and all the ideals and ideas from the 50's never went away?..."

As a game, no. At that point it would not be Fallout.

" As a game, no. At that point it would not be Fallout. "

Maybe they could do some weird flashback sequence, like put the tutorial in pre-war soldier training or something. But for a full game? Hell no, the whole point of Fallout is the post-apocalyptic setting.

No

" Maybe they could do some weird flashback sequence, like put the tutorial in pre-war soldier training or something. But for a full game? Hell no, the whole point of Fallout is the post-apocalyptic setting. "

I just want a new engine and a new location, maybe New York or overseas?  New York would be cool with its spires and locations, but it could be interesting to go all over the world.

It would be called, "Not yet at the point of a Fallout".

As a game I don't think it'd really feel like Fallout and I'd be very sceptical of a Fallout movie, as I usually am of all video games movies, but I think it could work as a book. I don't think the games are going to explore what's happening outside the US in any massive detail as being US-centric has always been a big part of the games. Also, considering the state the world has been left in rebuilding is going to be a very slow process, not only must it be hard to come across modern construction means in the post-apocalyptic wasteland but most people seem to have enough trouble just trying to stay alive, let alone trying to rebuild civilisation.
 
As for why the world is stuck with its 50s style that's the part of the Fallout fiction that I think pushes the boundaries of plausibility just a little. The idea is that after World War II it was considered a golden age and humanity was seen as being at its pinnacle so they just stopped advancing culture and seemingly to some degree technology. So they've ended up with a world that has sentient robots and laser guns but computers still run command line systems and it seems almost no new music has been made for about 120 years.

" @EpicSteve said:

" Maybe they could do some weird flashback sequence, like put the tutorial in pre-war soldier training or something. But for a full game? Hell no, the whole point of Fallout is the post-apocalyptic setting. "

Sort of like the did with the Operation: Anchorage DLC? "

The problem is the main institutions of the Fallout alternate universe (FUCK MOTHERSHIP ZETA) are the ones who made the big decisions and ended the world so as an individual you wouldn't be doing anything constructive or meaningful. There would be rules still and you wouldn't be able to make a lot of progress as a character...unless you want a combat game which isn't why I play Fallout at all.

No, not really. I feel that what happened before the war doesn't really matter much to the actual storylines of the games.

Fallout: Origins. The lead-up is pretty prosiac, resource wars between the US and China, so no, I'm not sure it would be an interesting game.

I could get into a game that takes place during the war. But at that point it may as well just be a standard FPS.

As long as the game ended with the whole Fallout universe being nuked by a million shells.