https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fallout-76-beta-starts-soon-trailer-parties-like-i/1100-6462098/

Bethesda is getting ready to launch its Fallout 76 beta, and it released a trailer of the game's intro cinematic to mark the occasion. The tongue-in-cheek tone celebrates America and promises to protect democracy, all with an odd, discomfiting tone. It also finally names a release date for the beta launch: October 23 on Xbox One, with PlayStation 4 and PC to follow a week later.

The satirical nature is part of Fallout's brand, offering a take on Cold War jingoism that accompanied historical events like the Cuban missile crisis. The trailer itself is given a dark tone by what we know in the fiction: that the bombs do drop, and these hand-picked best and brightest are utterly unable to reconstitute American society in any recognizable way.