In a post-nuclear future, the descendant of the hero from Fallout must leave his tribe in search of the Garden of Eden Creation Kit, the last chance of survival for his people. Once you get the G.E.C.K., however, the game is not over. Someone is kidnapping (or killing) people. It will be up to you to find out the truth and stop the evil.
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Michael Dorn, best known as Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation, voiced the super mutant Marcus in Fallout 2 back in 1998. When Marcus showed up again in Fallout: New Vegas more than a decade later, Dorn came back to voice him again, making Marcus one of the very few characters in the franchise to keep the same actor across that big a gap.
Alongside Michael Dorn, Fallout 2's voice cast quietly pulled in Jeffrey Jones, Peter Jason, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Star Trek: The Next Generation's own Dwight Schultz. At the time, video game voice work was still seen as a bit of a novelty gig for actors, so landing this many recognisable names for a 1998 CRPG was a genuinely big deal.
There was supposed to be a good ending where the intelligent deathclaws of Vault 13 expand peacefully into the surrounding territory instead of getting wiped out. The vault's designer has said it was scrapped because the Enclave storyline needed those deathclaws dead for the plot to work. Fan patches have since added workarounds that let the tribe survive after all.
An early design had you placing the street kids in the Den into an orphanage, possibly run by Mom, so you'd stop having to worry about them pickpocketing you. It never made it past the planning stage, so in the finished game the kids just carry on running wild.
The Ball Gag is in the game but technically does nothing when you carry it, until you talk to a cut casino character who was going to make a very pointed remark about you using it in a dance performance. The joke survived in the files even though the content around it didn't.
Dig through the game files and you'll find an unused Vault 24 Jumpsuit, despite there being no Vault 24 mentioned anywhere in any Fallout game. Nobody's entirely sure if it was meant for a cut location or was just an inside joke among the artists.
New Reno has no mayor and no police force. Instead, four crime families, the Bishops, Mordinos, Wrights, and Salvatores, run the whole city between them, keeping just enough order to protect their own businesses while shipping troublemakers off to a nearby graveyard town. It's basically a wasteland Vegas run entirely by the mob.
Before they became one of New Reno's most ruthless drug cartels, the Mordinos were two freed slaves scraping together a living by farming peyote cacti and selling it to tourists as 'the Reno experience.' It's a surprisingly humble origin story for a family that ends up controlling most of the city's drug and prostitution trade.
