The 27-year-old actress is leading the cast of the new <\/span>Prime Video<\/span><\/a> series as Lucy, a vault dweller whose life is upended when she\u2019s forced to leave the perceived safety of her underground home and head to the surface in search of her father.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With the ever-growing popularity of live-action adaptations of games comes a cemented fan base with expectations filmmakers strive to match. <\/span><\/p>\n While some, like <\/span>The Last Of Us<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>The Witcher<\/span><\/a>, have been widely praised and celebrated, others, like Netflix\u2019s <\/span>Resident Evil<\/span><\/a>, were largely panned and quickly cancelled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With Fallout being praised as one of the best game series of all time, the pressure was undoubtedly on to bring the retrofuturistic fantasy world the justice it deserves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So, what makes the upcoming Fallout something that falls into the more successful adaptations? Purnell believes it\u2019s down to appreciating where the show came from, while building a world of its own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking to RadioTimes<\/a> and other press, Purnell explained: \u201cI think one of the big challenges about adapting a video game is you\u2019re changing the entire format. You know, it\u2019s not as easy as adapting a book or creating a biopic about someone\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re going from a first-player experience, where you are playing the game and you\u2019re essentially creating a story within that world, you\u2019re taking away the major element that people play the games for, which is the ability to choose.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI think Geneva [Robertson-Dworet] and Graham [Wagner, show creators] did a fantastic job in this, translating that essence, that theme, by giving us these three archetypal main characters of The Ghoul, Lucy and Maximus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Set 200 years after an apocalyptic-level event, Fallout depicts the world as a devastating wasteland, practically barren and left devastated by the war that destroyed it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Unlike other shows in the genre, Fallout has opted to create characters from scratch, with characters not based on ones in the game. <\/span><\/p>\n As a result, it has allowed the game to be a basis, and not a play-by-play, of how the show plays out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> Jonathan Nolan, who directed the first three episodes of the series, also believed this was a vital element in making the Fallout TV show a success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOne of the reasons I love these games is because they\u2019re games,\u201d he explained. \u201cThey are open-world, role-playing games, you get to decide where you want to steer the story, which means a sort of rigorous adaptation is impossible. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf you play the game, you might play it as a good guy who joins this faction, I might play it [\u2026] as a bad guy who joins a different faction. I mean, there is no one version of any of these games, and there are seven games, and so a rigorous adaptation was impossible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n According to Purnell, the main series characters therefore give fans an option of who to get behind, and in some way, lead their own perspective of the show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [squirrel-affiliate-playlist squirrel_playlist_id=\u201d609\u2033 \/]<\/p>\n \u201cI think they represent three, yes, characters from the games, but also three different levels of play,\u201d she continued. \u201cYou get that experience that you get playing Fallout the game, of getting to choose whether you\u2019re going to be a good guy or a bad guy.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou know, having your choices directly influence the outcome of your journey, by giving you the Vault Dweller, who represents you at the start of the game coming out of the vault, all the way on the spectrum to The Ghoul, who\u2026 let\u2019s say has had a couple hundred hours of playtime under his belt, and is sort of the other end of the spectrum \u2013 you know, the bad guy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Fallout will come to Prime Video<\/a> on Thursday 11th April.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on. 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