Fallout 1 reborn as FPS in new Fallout Bakersfield total-conversion Doom mod

The new Doom total conversion mod Fallout Bakersfield gets an official trailer, showing what Interplay's 1997 cRPG would have been like as a first-person shooter.

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The volunteer dev team at Red888Guns has released a new gameplay trailer for Fallout Bakersfield, a new Doom WAD that brings the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 1 into the first-person realm. The gritty, old-school pixelated graphics from the 90s RPG are retained in Bakersfield, complete with a HUD that hearkens back to this golden age of gamin--there's even a status pane that shows text-based world state updates in real time.

"Fallout Bakersfield is a non-commercial 1993' Doom total conversion (GZDoom WAD). The main goal was to transfer the original atmosphere to the first-person mode. It's a sprite-based game running on the GZDoom engine," the description reads.

The mod isn't associated with ZeniMax/Bethesda, who own the Fallout franchise, and remains a non-official work. Still, we have to wonder what original Fallout creator Tim Cain would think about Bakersfield.

"I would not have made Fallout real-time. Not back in '97, not today in 2025," Cain said in a YouTube video.

Fallout Bakersfield is 60% complete and is being developed by Red888Guns (group page here). There's no official release date for the Doom WAD.

As for official Fallout projects, rumor has it that there are multiple Fallout games in development including a potential Fallout 3 remaster. Other reports suggest that ZeniMax and Microsoft made the decision to cancel a new MMORPG in favor of Fallout 5. Nothing has been confirmed or announced by Bethesda, though.