Fallout 3 to irradiate us in 2008

Mike Bantick
Wednesday, 06 June 2007 10:48

Your IT - Entertainment

Bethesda (Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion) have released a teaser trailer for the forthcoming, and highly anticipated Fallout 3.  Time for more post apocalyptic role-play fun.

Over at developer Bethesda’s website we see a teaser for the next in the series of tongue-in-cheek RPG franchise Fallout.

Fallout, originally developed by Interplay (1997) gave players an environment which combined the horrors of a landscape ravaged by nuclear war with kitsch 1950’s style.  One could argue this theme has been hijacked by the up coming AAA shooter Bioshock.

Fallout also used a unique Role-play system (originally to be based on the GURPS RP system) of Skills, Traits and Perks, giving each character a different gaming experience.

Given the original task of saving Vault 13 from running out of water, the player also needed to ultimately destroy the Super Mutant army to “win” the game.

The equally successful Fallout 2 a year later.  Ten years later, the world will be able to experience an all new generation of Fallout fun.

Coming this autumn (northern) Bethesda is poised to present the third chapter on PC, Xbox 360 and now PlayStation 3.

Bethesda’s Pete Hines makes a comment about the presented teaser trailer; "That's in-engine (in-engine means it's done with game assets in our rendering engine, but isn't done real-time. If it was done in real-time, that'd be gameplay footage. This isn't something, for example, that was sent to some house [e.g. Blur Studios] so they could build assets and render it out, and create something for us to release [e.g. Dawn of War 40K intro cinematic])."

"Yes, that's The Ink Spots singing "I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire"... Yes, that's Ron Perlman [voiceover man extraordinaire of Fallout 1 and 2.]"