Fallout started in 1997 as an isometric, turn-based game, in which the Wanderer would patiently wait for big rats and ...

Starfield offers a familiar Bethesda experience, but the combat feels lacking without the VATS system from Fallout games. While other RPGs like Mass Effect and The Outer Worlds have similar mechanics ...

While it'd be hard to think of a Fallout game without VATS underlying it, linking gunplay to the classic RPG elements of its ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

Tell me if this has happened to you. You're playing Fallout 4. There's an enemy, let's say, a super Mutant. You press the button that slows the game down, so that you can shoot directly at its head — ...

Fallout 76 is almost upon us and one of the most asked questions is, “How will VATS work?” Well, here’s what you need to know about how to use VATS in Fallout 76. One of the defining features of the ...

The Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System is returning, but it will work quite a bit differently than it has in the past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

VATS (Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System) is a long-time Fallout feature that pauses the game and lets players take aim at specific enemy body parts to disarm a limb, break a knee, or pop a ghoul's ...

VATS, the slow-motion combat system popularized by the Fallout games has a found a new home in Obsidian Entertainment’s forthcoming open world RPG, The Outer Worlds. Speaking to Game Informer, The ...