"Fallout 2" was released in October 1998, with several improvements over the first game, including an improved engine, the ability to set attitudes of non-player characters (NPC) party members and the ability to push people who are blocking doors. Additional features included several changes, including significantly more pop culture jokes and parodies, such as multiple Monty Python and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"-referencing special random encounters, and self-parodying dialogue that broke the fourth wall to mention game mechanics. "Fallout 2" takes place eighty years after "Fallout", and centers around a descendant of the Vault Dweller, the protagonist of "Fallout". The player assumes the role of the Chosen One as they try to save their village, Arroyo, from famine and droughts. After saving the village, the Chosen One must fight the Enclave, the remnants of the pre-war United States government.