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Bethesda has designed iPhone versions of Fallout 3

by Justin McElroy on Jun 5th 2009 3:15PM

So, there's good news and bad news for those of you who'd like to carry the apocalpyse in your pocket. Bethesda wants to bring the Fallout series to smaller screens ... they just haven't figured out how to pull it off yet.

"I think that the world of Fallout is unique enough that it could work on any platform. I think some of the things we do like VATS, I think that could translate to any platform, particularly the iPhone," Todd Howard told us yesterday. "We've looked into those things, we just haven't found the thing that supports the brand well. I wouldn't be surprised if it does happen one day. The iPhone versions that we've designed and said 'Ehh, we don't think we're going to do that right now,' there are ... there are a lot of them."

Could we maybe just have one?

Tags: Apple, bethesda, Bethesda-Game-Studios, Bethesda-Softworks, e3-2009, fallout-3, iphone, iPod, RPG, todd-howard

Reader Comments (25)

Fallout and Fallout 2 are already set up perfectly to function on the iPhone. Just make Fallout 3 a 3/4 2D game like the first two.

Or at the very least port the first two games. I mean the iPhone is perfect for point and click adventures. If they try to turn it into some kind of FPS it will fail HARD.

Or a Baldur's Gate I or II for that matter! The very prospect of that makes me TOO happy.

so the iphone gets fallout 3 but the wii doesn't? haha wow, bethesda.

Well to be fair the iPhone is like 4 Gamecubes duct taped together.

Dude....you gotta stop looking at the install base, brah. This generation is all about creative freedom

Funny, I don't see anything in that quote that indicates that Fallout is coming to iPhone. The closest thing would be this: "I wouldn't be surprised if it does happen one day." It's vague and lends itself more to the probability that it will never happen.

@Naeem: That's TWO whole Wiis!

...Oh man, I'm going to regret partaking in this.

I vote you up Naeem.

I don't understand how all these iPhone ports are even plausible, or are people just willing to buy anything with a specific title.

I mean the iPhone is perfect for say Peggle, or even Plants vs. Zombies but Fallout 3 come on have a little dignity Bethesda.

Read reply #1. Point and click adventures would work perfectly. I'm mainly worried about the amount of space a game like this would take up. I'm already constantly scaling back my music collection just to make room for all the apps I download.

Can't they just make a Pipboy program and call it a day? I'd accept that.

That was the first thing I thought of as well. And maybe release some sort of arm gauntlet that it snaps into for ubernerds.

word

i would accept that happily.

Hate apple.

Thank you for that insightful commentary on this game. May we all subscribe to the newsletter.

This has nothing to do with Apple. I for one would like to see a game released.

Harry Potter is for babies.

See how baseless that comment was?

I still hate apple. SAD

Hate is strong, I dislike them and their products.

They're actually going to make the iPhone Fallout an on-rails shooter. It's going to be exciting.

Lets hope they accurately capture the walking between locations gameplay...

They need to combine elements of fallout 3 and metal slug for this to work. I should be able to either download my fallout 3 character from my pc, or have a large amount of character customization, and embark on an epic action side scroller, with RPG like character progression. In fact this should have had already happened a few weeks ago.

Yeah because the Fallout titles need to be more linear than Bethesda has already made them.

I would like to see Fallout 1 and 2 on iPhone. That would be some piece of epic.

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