'Fallout' review: Something truly S.P.E.C.I.A.L. indeed

'I know what you're thinking. Did I fire one shot, or maybe none? But I'd ask myself a question: What's your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Luck stat, punk?' Photos: Handout

Time is the fire in which we all burn, said the fella who killed James Tiberius Kirk, quoting a 20th-century poet. And after the fire has burned us all, the only enemy left to defeat will be time – or so goes a key premise of Fallout, Prime Video's brilliant adaptation of the (also brilliant) videogame series of the same name.

You can't have swum up through the murky evolutionary waters of computer role-playing games (CRPGs) without encountering Fallout in one of its many incarnations.