Kotaku has decline in quality over the year, none of their recently articles are worth a single grain of salt. Something tells me this is an attempt to keep the hype train going.
For example the wording the War never changes sounds off key and comes out as war never change. It just doesn't sounds right.
Second Ron Pearlman has been narrating the intro and outro for years. The one except being Fallout: PoS for xbox. Maybe they want to make the narrator into a playable character and give him a story.
Third is that fallout has always been a game about self interests, not playing as commander shepherd. No, have your lines read out goes against the tradition of the game.
Also once again the generic east coast.