Key Takeaways
- Fallout: London doesn’t just open with the Sixth and Seventh Doctors bickering, it even has an easter egg collectable hunt.
- Fans have found that there are 15 different TARDIS’ to find across London. Once you’ve uncovered them all, you’ll decode a secret message.
Fallout: London is a fan-made game which takes Black Isle Studios and Bethesda’s iconic RPG series to the dreary British Isles, specifically the English capital. And it wouldn’t be Britain without Doctor Who, eh?
As many fans quickly discovered, there’s an entire collectable side quest focused on an “Unusual Call Box” you find in the city. It could be that it’s just a ’50s police box, which were everywhere back then, but the devs are Whovians! It’s clearly a TARDIS—Time and Relative Dimensions in Southwark.
There’s even
Bad Wolf graffiti
referencing the overarching mystery of New Who’s first season.
You have to find all 15 of these scattered across the Big Smoke to decode a special message intercepted by your Atta-Boy, Fallout: London’s version of the Pip-Boy. As if it wasn’t obvious that it was a Doctor Who reference, there’s a Tardis for each numbered Doctor.
Fallout: London Even Opens With The Sixth And Seventh Doctors Bickering
Before you’re even let loose in London, the opening has you watch Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, AKA the Sixth and Seventh Doctors (who are still performing to this day in Big Finish), bickering as they inspect you while you’re trapped in a gooey pod.
Fallout: London opens with The Doctor himself, twice! They aren’t wearing a technicolour rainbow suit or a tank top covered in question marks, but I’d recognise those voices anywhere.
Now all we need to do is find Mysterious Scientists 1 and 2 and bring them to the 15 Unusual Call Boxes and get them to open their fob watches and voila, we’ll have our Doctors back in action.
Fallout
Fallout is a franchise built around a series of RPGs set in a post-nuclear world, in which great vaults have been built to shelter parts of humankind. There are six main games, various spin-offs, tabletop games, and a TV series from Amazon Studios.