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Broken Roads review: It's not just the roads that are broken in this RPG that wants to be Fallout down under, writes PETER HOSKIN


PETER HOSKIN: Stop me if you've heard this one before. Atomic war has turned the Earth into an irradiated wasteland. You, as one of the survivors, are left to scratch a living from the dust.

We've all heard this one before: it's the premise of the decades-old Fallout games, which have recently been adapted into one of the hottest TV shows of 2024. Here's an incomplete list of my own: boring combat; thinly drawn-out companions; often repetitive and unsatisfying quests. In everything from its painterly art style to its mordant sense of humour, there's a good deal of character about Broken Roads.

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