Fallout 3 set for Fall 2008 release
by Ludwig Kietzmann 
{ Jun 5th 2007 at 12:50PM }
Get to a shelter! The apocalypse is nigh!
Well, it's somewhat nigh. In fact, it's very close to almost bordering on the status of being considered nigh. If the just released teaser trailer for Bethesda's foray into a world wrecked by nuclear catastrophe is any indication, Fallout 3 is set to leak out of a suspicious cannister in Fall 2008. Alright, so not particularly nigh then.
The trailer (which is currently creating a bandwidth apocalypse on Bethesda's site) doesn't give away much along the lines of gameplay, but provides some assurances that obliterated cityscapes and dilapidated vehicles will be completely represented in all their glorious, err, incompleteness. Perhaps Fallout's new caretakers really do care about the revered RPG franchise.
Bethesda's Pete Hines even cares enough to offer some answers to questions you were just about to ask: The trailer is in-engine, those are the Ink Spots you hear and yes, that's Ron Perlman's gravelly voice.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
RKN2K @ Jun 5th 2007 12:55PM
We shall see.
stalax @ Jun 5th 2007 1:00PM
Needs more gameplay.
Anam @ Jun 5th 2007 1:01PM
Cool that it's coming somewhat soon. But with almost no info on the actual game, it's hard to get excited yet.
Xvalue @ Jun 5th 2007 1:02PM
what does that tell us? That could be the new Tony Hawk Uphill Jam game.
No more CG shit.
Drjack @ Jun 5th 2007 1:04PM
Would really have liked a little gameplay just so we could know...
oh well graphics didn't look clean enough to be a full on render so that was probably the game engine... oh well game's going to look nice, now just to know if they are going to stick with turn based combat or god forbid make fallout an fps.
Ed @ Jun 5th 2007 1:40PM
considering how the game won't be ready until Fall 2008, i think we got plenty of time to wait for gameplay. wouldn't you agree?
Pimliconite @ Jun 5th 2007 1:10PM
Looks like... Oblivion. In a PA setting. The guy in power armor looks just like an Oblivion actor... in power armor. So it looks good with the art deco architecture (I see no googie architecture), but really that was the least of my worries. Is it Oblivion with guns? All the video shows is that it very well could be.
And do note that this is all in-engine, numero 4.
Aex @ Jun 5th 2007 1:10PM
That was the in game engine. Which I think looks wonderful. Perhaps I should play Fallout 1 and 2 before Fall 2008.
Cam @ Jun 5th 2007 1:13PM
I'm going to have that song stuck in my head for the longest time, anyone know the artist/title?
Rallion @ Jun 5th 2007 1:16PM
Pimliconite, you're superimposing your fears about the game over your perception of the video.
I'm NOT saying that the game WON'T be Oblivion with guns, in fact, I fear it will be. But all this video shows is that they DO understand the setting. It doesn't indicate at all that they're going to mess up the gameplay. There isn't a thing that's distinctive 'Oblivion' about any of that.
Pimliconite @ Jun 5th 2007 1:17PM
It's the Ink Spots. "I Don't Want To Set the World On Fire". Fallout 1's intro scene was "Maybe" by the Ink Spots, whose developers thought "..Set the World On Fire" was a little on the nose.
dvnt @ Jun 5th 2007 1:18PM
Fall 2008... Ready? Set. Wait.
Pimliconite @ Jun 5th 2007 1:22PM
I don't think this video shows it will be the game I don't want it to be, just that it does not disprove my fears. It in fact, leaves plenty of room for them to materialize. It's just apparent that they didn't go back to Embryo and make a new engine, they just used the Oblivion engine and replaced the assets with PA stuff. Could they have changed the Oblivion engine in fundamental ways for Fallout 3? Yes. We'll find out in another 6 months when they throw us another bone.
But, whatever, I'm sure I'll still play it.
Number Six @ Jun 5th 2007 1:33PM
If that's in-engine, I'll need to start pinching pennies NOW in order to buy a new rig in time to play it.
j20 @ Jun 5th 2007 1:46PM
damn, I thought that was gonna be the intro to "set the world afire" by Megadeth?!?
never mind. can't wait for the game tho!
Scott Mackenzie @ Jun 5th 2007 2:03PM
Can't wait. What's with the pessimism? The release date is earlier than I thought, this video clearly shows that the team understands the previous design style (hoola girl on top of glowing vacuum tubes sums it up nicely) and the engine looks beautiful... it's a teaser and that's exactly what it did for me.
Scott Mackenzie @ Jun 5th 2007 2:04PM
OK, I'd like to take back a component of comment #16 -- I was thinking Fall, 2007. Clearly TFA says Fall, 2008. Ugh.
miles foreman @ Jun 5th 2007 2:08PM
I was decidedly underwhelmed. While it was nice to see Vault Boy, Nuka Cola and Corvega references, the Ink Spots and Ron Perlman too... I just have this bad feeling that I can't shake.
Pimliconite @ Jun 5th 2007 2:18PM
That bad feeling is you holding down 'W' for 10 minutes then running into a deathclaw and screaming "CRAP I'M ONLY LEVEL 52!" and holding down 'S' while you go clickclickclickclickclickclickclick until you die then reload and say "I guess I have to go get some more pigrat snot to make healing po--I mean stimpaks, time to visit one of dozens, nay, hundreds of nearly identical pigrat caves and bask in the sandboxed pointlessness."
Not that I know FO3 will be like that, that's just my bad feeling.
Meg @ Jun 5th 2007 2:21PM
Next Game Informer cover is Fallout 3 - platforms are confirmed - PS3, XBox 360 and PC. see on devs weblog:
http://www.ashleycheng.com/2007/06/game-informer-cover-story.html
StrangeBum @ Jun 5th 2007 2:24PM
I was pretty unimpressed with what Oblivion came out to be. It was a great game for sure, but was sort of meh to me.
This on the other hand, assuming it doesn't just become Oblivion with guns perks my interest much more. Partly, because I enjoy the setting much more. I hope that they come out with vids showing gameplay.
And @14 Number Six
Yeah me too, this looks like it would demolish my current setup, which IMO isn't a bad one at all. Shit.
StrangeBum @ Jun 5th 2007 2:27PM
Ummm....
I meant @13 Number Six...clearly I wasn't meaning comment 14 by Ed...heh.
Jordan Capri @ Jun 5th 2007 3:22PM
Just what we need, another war FPS. Please stop making these games.
zwarrior @ Jun 5th 2007 10:54PM
Lol #4
Geist @ Jun 5th 2007 4:30PM
So far the world looks good, but if it's Oblivion: Fallout Edition it won't be something I'll be getting. Even Oblivion was kind of disappointing.
Incidentally, that quote at the end ("War. War never changes."): was that the same voice from the previous games?
Singard @ Jun 5th 2007 4:36PM
Guys, turn-based RPG's are dead. Give up the ghost. There's no way Bethesda is making a turn-based, isometric 3D game running on the Oblivion engine. It most certainly will not be running on Windows 95, either.
I loved Fallout 1 and 2, too -- as well as just about anything Black Isle did -- but no one is making games like that, anymore. Fallout 3 will be Oblivion with guns in the Fallout setting. As Oblivion is my favorite 360 game, and I'm still playing it over a year after release, I can safely say that I'm excited to see what Bethesda has in store for Fallout 3. The Shivering Isles is great, has an excellent tone and sense of humor -- I think they'll do the Fallout setting more justice than Interplay did in the past few Fallout games.
Pimliconite @ Jun 5th 2007 4:52PM
"Guys, turn-based RPG's are dead."
No, they're not. One just came out recently. What was it called? Some obscure franchise... Something Fantasy 12, or something like that. Though almost nobody heard of it or played it, I assure you it existed, and a handful of others could probably attest to that.
But you're right, of course, all RPG's now must be realtime, no pausing for tactical decisions, almost plotless sandbox stat-building games. Pretty ones. Really pretty ones. And reading? Reading's for school n stuff. Words went out in like 2003.
"Fallout 3 will be Oblivion with guns in the Fallout setting."
Yes, it most likely will be. Have fun searching high and low for that elusive "Power Armor MK III Right Pauldron". I'll reserve my final judgment until I see some gameplay, but as you may have guessed, I'm not optimistic.
Matt @ Jun 5th 2007 4:57PM
@ #24
Yes. That was Ron Perlman saying "War... War never changes..." just as he did in the previous two games and in Tactics.
The teaser (yes, TEASER, people) got me psyched. Fall 2008 cannot come fast enough.
Will @ Jun 5th 2007 5:15PM
This was not too early and at least in my case, does not disappoint.
The grist for the fanboy mill (a group among which I count myself), was the voiceover at the end.
Much like Star Wars geeks battling it out over 'red vs blue' or 'blue vs blue' before Episode III, the question of whether the 'war... war never changes' quote would be embraced has been an ongoing flame war in the Fallout fan community... so it's in and many will rejoice.
Many will hate this game no matter what, saying that Bethesda raped their childhood. Just keep your wallets closed, and civilization will continue apace.
BPM @ Jun 5th 2007 5:36PM
@Pimliconite, I thought FF12 was more of an action-RPG than a turn-based RPG? I'm not quite sure, since I haven't played it, but that's what I think I heard about it...
Though, a more recent example of a turn-based RPG would be Pokémon Diamond/Pearl... [shrugs]
Vince @ Jun 5th 2007 5:43PM
FINALLY! THE 1950's MUSIC!
Pimliconite @ Jun 5th 2007 5:47PM
It's timed-turnbased, which I would be fine with.
But even having realtime with pause would be a plus, like what Bioware can still do in their low-budget-indie title Mass Effect or Obsidian with NWN2. It's at least turn based under the surface, while TES is purely continuous (stat's control how fast you can click). Can you see which one requires less thought?
And that track is from the 1930's.
bearattack79 @ Jun 5th 2007 9:31PM
This game teaser looked cool to me, Im an Obliovion player but Oblivions animation and combat seem rather stale and repiticious.
If this fallout game is anything like Oblivion Im not interested.
Mikeo @ Jun 5th 2007 9:40PM
Whoa whoa whoa...
@31
Mass Effect. LOW BUDGET? INDIE? ROFL.
Surely low budgets cover Unreal Engine licensing, huge voice casting and massive scriptwriting. And we haven't touched the actual dev process yet.
As for the trailer... staying neutral. Bethesda never screws up major games, but there's always the nitpicking geeks who think they should develop FO3.
And... Vault Boy FTW!
Sesur @ Jun 5th 2007 9:49PM
The environment seems perfectly intact. That's the most important thing to me. Power Armor looks a little cheap though...
Oh,and "It's oblivion with gunz!!1!". I say that because I totally know that. Argue with me and you will incur my baseless wrath.
Sean @ Jun 8th 2007 12:48AM
Sounds bitchin'. I'm not "afraid" of a futuristic Oblivion, I think that would be UAWESOME!
hilker @ Jun 6th 2007 3:18PM
Pimliconite, the Ink Spots recorded "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" on 21 August 1941 and the record was released that September.
The Roebuc @ Jul 27th 2007 6:27PM
I am so sick of hearing all this comparin to Oblivion! I am old enough to promise you I played the original and understood what was going on, the second as well. With the next gen games that have come a long there have been positives and negatives understandably. In forum I read some kid saying "We as Gamers need to ban this Game" For God's Sake this FALLOUT!!!! Not Halo, a Total War, or Madden, this is a Godfather and no matter who is making it you don't ban it, you try it out. Beth is going to do a great job with it, Oblivion set the bar for Next Gen RPG or Action Games, which ever you want to call it, it is a Legend now and so will FALLOT 3! Back off the devs and just buy the game cause you know you will!!!!