Fallout 3 sold more than Bethesda's previous game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and shipped almost 5 million copies in its first week. Government that seeks to use it for their own purposes.įallout 3 was met with universal acclaim and received a number of Game of the Year awards, praising the game's open-ended gameplay and flexible character-leveling system, and is considered one of the greatest video games ever made. They find themselves seeking to complete their father's work while fighting against the Enclave, the corrupt remnants of the former U.S. Players take control of an inhabitant of Vault 101, one of several underground shelters created before the Great War to protect around 1,000 humans from the nuclear fallout, who is forced to venture out into the Capital Wasteland to find their father after he disappears from the Vault under mysterious circumstances. The main story takes place in the year 2277, around 36 years after the events of Fallout 2, of which it is not a direct sequel.
It takes place within Fallout 's usual setting of a world that deviated into an alternate timeline thanks to atomic age technology, which eventually led to its devastation by a nuclear apocalypse in the year 2077 (referred to as the Great War), caused by a major international conflict between the United States and China over natural resources and the last remaining supplies of untapped uranium and crude oil. The game is set within a post-apocalyptic, open world environment that encompasses a scaled region consisting of the ruins of Washington, D.C., and much of the countryside to the north and west of it, referred to as the Capital Wasteland. It was released worldwide in October 2008 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
The game marks a major shift in the series by using 3D graphics and real-time combat, replacing the 2D isometric graphics and turn-based combat of previous installments. The third major installment in the Fallout series, it is the first game to be created by Bethesda since it bought the franchise from Interplay Entertainment. Plus, they were carrying a bunch of loot for me.Fallout 3 is a 2008 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Even though the characters didn't have that much to say, I always felt like a dick letting them die. It became such a chore to restart fights that I decided against taking a companion altogether. This happened a lot, thanks to the NPC's tendency to walk off high ledges. Whenever my companion bit the dust, I'd reload the game. That was definitely how I played in Fallout 3. No one plays and the dog dies and they say, "Fuck it, I'll just keep playing." So we wanted to make him.when he's your follower, your actual companion in the game - there's a number of them, not just the dog - they can't be killed when they're in that state.
Howard said in the interview with that they felt companion death disrupted the flow of the game because players would always restart the fight so they could keep their ally alive: However, you can help them return to the fight by using a stimpack on them. When an NPC companion takes a certain amount of damage, they'll be incapacitated.