#Super mutant new vegas mods#
#Super mutant new vegas series#

The Institute, an elusive faction of scientists in Fallout 4, kidnap the inhabitants of the surrounding region and subject their victims to another strain of FEV for experimentation. For example, Vault Tec, the technology company which built the nuclear fallout shelter facilities called Vaults, deliberately exposed the occupants of Vault 87 to a modified strain of the FEV as part of an unethical experiment called the Evolutionary Experimentation Program.

#Super mutant new vegas series#

Subsequent games in the Fallout series feature other antagonistic factions that employ different strains of the FEV to create Super Mutants.

The FEV, an artificially-created virus by a defense contractor and research corporation contracted by the American government, was originally meant to protect against various forms of biological warfare. The Fallout series' Super Mutants were first introduced in 1997's Fallout as the creations of a grotesque mutated being known as the 'Master', who used a strain of the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) from the Mariposa Military Base located in California to transforms human beings into a hulking monstrous humanoid form. Certain individual Super Mutant characters have been well received by critics for their characterization, although the role the Super Mutant race have played throughout the history of the franchise have been the source of contention for some commentators.

#Super mutant new vegas mods#

While Super Mutants tend to form their own factions or societies and are usually hostile to civilized humans, some have chosen to live peacefully alongside humans in settlements across the post-apocalyptic wasteland.ДЄmong the most recognizable and integral elements of the Fallout intellectual property (IP), Super Mutants have appeared in every media of the franchise, and have been the subject of numerous fan mods of Fallout series games. The Super Mutants of the Fallout series tend to be depicted as savage and innately violent beings who, as a result of their transformations, lost a substantial amount of intelligence and often have cannibalistic tendencies. Within series lore, Super Mutants are originally ordinary human beings that have been mutated to be much larger and stronger as a result of exposure to a genetically engineered viral mutagen. Super Mutants are a fictional race of posthuman beings from the post-apocalyptic Fallout video game franchise. Render of a typical Super Mutant from Fallout: New Vegas