Release Date: October 28th, 2008
Consoles: PC, Xbox 360, PS3.
Developer: Bethesda Softworks
Publisher: Zenimax Media



As with the other games in the series, Fallout 3 takes place in the United States after a nuclear apocolypse. The player lives with his father in Vault 101, a fallout shelter in Washington D.C. But one day, the player wakes up to find that his father has mysteriously left the Vault, so the player leaves to search for his father.


Character creation is done by creating your character's childhood. The character's mother dies in labor in a Vault hospital, after which the player chooses the character's Traits and general appearance during the father's DNA analysis. You then choose 7 primary aptitudes. The rest of the attributes are determined through tests taken during your character's childhood. Skills and Perks are similar to those in previous games: the player chooses three Tag Skills out of 14 to be the character's specialties, and the character will gain a Perk every other level. Perks are special skills or abilities that have many different effects. The maximum level the player can achieve is level 21.










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New interview:

Max level 21? I tend to lose interest when I stop leveling and getting new Items. I'm sure Bethesda will make it work, and I can always start a new game. I'm really looking forward to this game.

Watch in order.

Mmm, those videos were magically delicious. And you get to see my favourite achievement in action, the psychotic prankster.

Awesome vids, wouldn't mind seeing more 3rd person stuff though, just not into FPS games.

new vids from IGN:
Gathering Good Karma
weapons feature

New stuff all this week on IGN, so far:
Perks and skills
Gathering good karma article
tools of survival
Edit Added: Bad to the bone-with video

All good stuff


This message was edited by Curt Connors on Sep 26 2008.

this game is for sure going to win GOTY. Official Xbox Magazine gave it a perfect 10/10 score (most recent OXM mag that just came out). its only real competition at all this year is GTA4, and that game didnt completely live up to the hype.

i cant wait for this shit!!!!!

quote Shinobi_razor

this game is for sure going to win GOTY. Official Xbox Magazine gave it a perfect 10/10 score (most recent OXM mag that just came out). its only real competition at all this year is GTA4, and that game didnt completely live up to the hype.

i cant wait for this shit!!!!!

Gears of War 2 or Fable 2 are actually gonna be tougher competitors than GTA IV, I'd think.

I have a question. Is this game like TES oblivion? Y'know, picking up clothes,customizing, lots of weapons and loooong sotry line and side quests?

I hear the storyline isn't that long, I don't know, i'm not that far through it, but otherwise, yeah, it's pretty similar to Oblivion.

So it's cool, Ragdoll physics and picking p things, 3rd person and 1st person view? or am i exaggerating now?

The 3rd person view is terrible, but it isn't a big deal anyway, since the game feels much better in 1st person.


And the main storyline isn't very long. Maybe 15 hours. But there is a load of sidequests, and most of them are pretty long, sometimes lasting several hours. Not to mention all of the exploring that is to be done.

A video and interview about the upcoming DLC stuff, worth having a looksee for folks who are going to be using it.

Link.