Fallout 3

[Fallout]

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"War. War never changes."

The eagerly awaited nuclear winter is almost here. A full decade after the release of the postapocalyptic role-playing game Fallout 2 on the PC and four years after work on the project began, Bethesda Softworks today announced that Fallout 3 has gone gold for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

Some 200 years after Washington DC is devastated by a nuclear war, players explore the wasteland surrounding the US capital. As one might expect, the area is marginally less hospitable as lobbyists and lawmakers have given way to mutants, ghouls, and heavily armed militia factions.

The remaining sane population lives in subterranean bunkers called "vaults," and there are few reasons for people to venture into the wastelands above. However, Fallout 3 has the protagonist taking the first brave steps into the world outside in search of a missing father. The player character is a member of Vault 101, a fallout shelter serving Washington, D.C.

Fallout 3 will be available for PC, Xbox 360, and PLAYSTATION 3 in North America October 28th, 2008 and Europe October 31st, 2008. Japan gets it December 4th, 2008.

Minimum System Requirements:
* Windows XP/Vista
* 1GB System RAM (XP)/ 2GB System RAM (Vista)
* 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)

Recommended System Requirements:
* Intel Core 2 Duo processor
* 2 GB System RAM
* Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)
* Supported Video Card Chipsets:
o NVIDIA GeForce 200 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 9800 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 9600 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 8800 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 8600 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 8500 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 8400 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 7900 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 7800 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 7600 series
o NVIDIA Geforce 7300 series
o NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
o ATI HD 4800 series
o ATI HD 4600 series
o ATI HD 3800 series
o ATI HD 3600 series
o ATI HD 3400 series
o ATI HD 2900 series
o ATI HD 2600 series
o ATI HD 2400 series
o ATI X1900 series
o ATI X1800 series
o ATI X1600 series
o ATI X1300 series
o ATI X850 series

[Lord_Ac]

YESSS!! I CAN'T WAIT! w00000t!

[Fallout]

Though the Fallout franchise is now mostly out of original designer Tim Cain's hands, that doesn't mean he's going to ignore what's going on with the post-apocalyptic role-playing franchise he helped spawn while at Black Isle Studios.

"The biggest problem...is that the original games were designed to make you feel like you were one of the last people left on Earth," he observed. "With Fallout 3 and the online version, I'm curious about how they'll handle making the game not feel too crowded--making it feel like there's not much life left out there after the war."

"I do like what I've seen about Fallout 3," Cain said of the Bethesda-developed sequel, which hits PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 28. "It's their IP now and they've gone in a certain direction and it's very intriguing."

"It's not necessarily the direction I would've gone," he added, expressing curiosity as to how game's stats system fared in the transition from turn-based to real-time game mechanics. "I can tell you I have my Fallout 3 pre-ordered...I'm looking forward to Fallout 3 as a consumer, not a developer. I just want to play it and enjoy it."

While not part of the core development team, Cain has at least talked with Bethesda about Fallout 3 and Interplay regarding the Fallout MMO. As for his next project, Cain, now the design director at Carbine Studios, is believed to be working on the company's unannounced MMO project.

[murlock]

ilang tulog na lang! palit sa ko additional ram.

[rj325]

this game will be like STALKER/Oblivion since its from bethseda and it's an fps. i think this will be a very long game.

[keboks_x]

I've seen the previews and trailers and I must say, this is one of the most anticipated games this year... a lot of hype... I hope it lives up to it...

[christ1an]

bethesda bastardize the fallout franchise..... check out the leaked videos on youtube more like an 8gb mod of oblivion. it even have vampires lol lol lol and from the looks of it they didn't improve the AI

the game should be called The Elder Scrolls: Fallout!

[Lord_Ac]

bethesda bastardize the fallout franchise..... check out the leaked videos on youtube more like an 8gb mod of oblivion. it even have vampires lol lol lol and from the looks of it they didn't improve the AI

the game should be called The Elder Scrolls: Fallout!

Ok.

But I'm still playing.

[personalmgt]

o ATI HD 2400 series

YEEEHAAAA!!! my crappy videocard on the list!

[murlock]

bethesda bastardize the fallout franchise..... check out the leaked videos on youtube more like an 8gb mod of oblivion. it even have vampires lol lol lol and from the looks of it they didn't improve the AI

the game should be called The Elder Scrolls: Fallout!

mao pud na ako gi kuyawan. gi confirm man sad ni todd howard na "Fallout3 is oblivion with guns."

dili man sad gud original developers ang naghimo sa fallout 3 pero excited ko sa "comeback" sa franchise!