Posts with tag fallout
by Jason Dobson May 8th 2008 5:00AM
Filed under: Culture, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs
No matter what
platform we choose to take on
Fallout 3's radioactive wasteland, we will be doing so to the musical styling of seasoned game music composer Inon Zur.
If Zur's name isn't familiar to you, it's likely you've hummed along to some of his more notable tracks heard in games like
Crysis as well as each of the three expansions to
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. And speaking of three, a trio of the songs Zur created for Bethesda's hotly anticipated RPG are available to listen to on the
official Fallout 3 website, from in-game tracks "Megaton" and "Into the Wasteland," to a bass-heavy title track that has us climbing the walls in our underground shelter in the march up to the game's release this fall.
by Justin McElroy Apr 21st 2008 1:15PM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, RPGs
click to enlargeCake, pizza, fabric, all things you can take a chunk out of to judge the quality. But
Fallout 3, it's more like a Jenga tower or a baby: Taking a sample slice out of it won't end up well for anyone. To that end Eurogamer reports that Bethesda's Pete Hines says there will be no demo for the sprawling action RPG.
"When you build it as one thing, there's no way to portion off a section and have it stand on its own without putting the whole game in the demo, which we're just not going to do," Hines told the publication. But honestly, if at their heart demos are to help consumers make wise buying decisions, do you really
need one for
Fallout 3? We'll be fine waiting to have our minds blown by the whole package. In the interim, enjoy these three new screenshots Bethesda released today, to take the edge off.
by Zack Stern Apr 10th 2008 11:13AM
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, RPGs, Galleries
click to enlarge In a hotel conference room, Bethesda's Pete Hines recently demoed the latest version of the
Fallout 3. He trudged through a collapsed building, firing a machine gun at ambling, radiated mutants. The gore made me wince a little, with blood gurgling from zombie limbs. Earlier, he shot the head off another enemy, and blood arced straight out of the neck, as if it was trying to reach the brain one last time.
Only minutes earlier, he'd shown me how the player's character grows up in an underground bunker, with
those moments acting partly as tutorial and partly as a character creator. Your father, for example, stays hidden in the shadows after your birth until he checks out how the infant will look grown up. Players use a medical gadget to see (read: design) their appearance, then he emerges with roughly similar, paternal features.
We've covered the game a
few times before, so in addition to my general impressions, I talked with Hines about some recently revealed features.
Continue reading Joystiq impressions: Fallout 3 (360/PC/PS3)
by Christopher Grant Apr 9th 2008 5:58PM
Filed under: PC, MMO
It's been awhile since we've had an update on Interplay's long-promised Fallout MMO. To get some of you up to speed:
plans for a Fallout MMO that could revive the ailing company were teased out of a November 2006 SEC filing. In April of the following year, Bethesda – already hard at work on
Fallout 3 –
bought the rights to the series from Interplay for $5.75 million. The deal allowed Interplay to be a licensee, paying Bethesda a 12% royalty on net sales of the still-vaporous Fallout MMO. In August, Interplay's CEO stated in an earning statement that "Fallout Online will
play a key role in the future of Interplay" and in November the company revealed
ambitions to rekindle franchises like
Earthworm Jim,
MDK,
Descent, and
Dark Alliance.
Now, in yet another earnings report wrapping up their 2007 fiscal year, Interplay reaffirms its ambition to secure funding for the
Fallout MMO as well as "creating sequels to some of its most successful games," notably the four listed above. To that end, it's hiring developers and will be launching a new web site "imminently." Regrettably, we won't be seeing any of these games as "imminently."
[Via
MCV]
by Ross Miller Mar 25th 2008 8:00PM
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure
Fallout fans can look forward to over 200 different endings with the upcoming
Fallout 3, according to Executive Producer Todd Howard. Speaking on the
OXM podcast (interview starts at 37-minute mark) Howard said, "Being that we are Bethesda, everything gets a bit big. So as of last week, we're over 200 endings. That is not an exaggeration, but it deserves some descriptions."
The clarification is that, like other
Fallout games, choices you make in the game will affect aspects of the ending, so that figure is really a combination of many sub-endings. The real question, then, is how many times do you have to beat the game to see every sub-ending?
Howard also confirmed that
Fallout 3 is twice the size than anticipated and
close to the size of
Oblivion. "The game is easily 100 hours," he said. Howard also goes into detail about the dog companion.
Fallout 3 is still on track for release this Fall.
[Via
Shacknews]
by Scott Jon Siegel Mar 5th 2008 2:40PM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
A
new development studio has formed in Pasadena, CA, co-founded by former developers of titles like
Fallout and
Medal of Honor. The new studio, named WhiteMoon Dreams (huh), will focus on creating original IP for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii, but is also open to working with developers on titles in need of assistance.
Heading the studio are Jay Kootarappallil -- a former EA technical art director for titles like
Ratchet & Clank and
Medal of Honor -- and R. Scott Campbell -- lead concept and game designer on
Fallout. At the moment the team is working with a "major Japanese publisher" on an unannounced title. The team hopes to focus on innovative gameplay, and "new directions in the visual medium." We wish the newly-formed studio the best of luck in its endeavors.
by Ross Miller Jan 9th 2008 1:30PM
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Business
Are you the kind of vault dweller not wanting to seek life outside your safe vault dwelling but still longing for excitement? Bethesda is
hiring Quality Assurance (QA) testers for the upcoming
Fallout 3. Sure, you get to play the game before anyone else, but as an added incentive, Bethesda's
Ashley Cheng notes that top testers usually get pulled to be interns for the company.
The developer diary for
Fallout 3 has also been updated to give a profile for the
Brotherhood of Steel, as well as show off some concept art for the game that you can also peruse in our gallery below.
Fallout 3 is still slated for a Fall 2008 release.
by Ross Miller Nov 20th 2007 4:55PM
Filed under: Culture, PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, First Person Shooters, RPGs
"Every time you kill an opponent, all your action points are automatically restored." So goes the description for the perk "Grim Reaper's Sprint," winner of Bethesda's
Fallout 3 Create a Perk contest. The designer, Marc-André Deslongchamps of Montreal, will see his perk included in the final game as well as receive a package of
PC-related prizes.
The contest, announced in
early October, was in honor of
Fallout's 10th anniversary. Eleven runner-ups and five random entries
were chosen to also receive gifts; be sure to check out their submitted perks
at the contest page. We're hoping to see some of these other perks, especially Kleptomaniac, find their way into
Fallout 3 in some facet.
Now that we know one of the perks, anyone want to place bets on what the others will be?
by Ross Miller Nov 14th 2007 3:25PM
Filed under: Retro, Business
With help from money it gleaned from
selling the Fallout franchise to Bethesda, Interplay intends to revitalize its in-house game development studio and "has hired a veteran game developer," according to
an SEC filing. Interplay also noted that, should it be able to obtain further financing, the developer intends to "develop sequels to some of the most successful games, including
Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance, Descent and
MDK." The developer also plans to continue work on a
Fallout MMO. The connection to Interplay's former post-apocalyptic franchise doesn't end there; it's as interwoven into this story as the characters from
LOST are to each other. The "veteran game developer," as it turns out, is former
Fallout designer
Jason Anderson, who worked on the first and second games before leaving with fellow
Fallout devs Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky to form Troika games. Anderson is reportedly working on an MMO for Interplay unrelated to
Fallout.
[Via
Gamasutra]
by Ross Miller Oct 4th 2007 5:55PM
Filed under: Online, RPGs, MMO
MMO factory NCSoft today took the wrapping paper off of
Carbine Studios, its latest developer. According to the press release, Carbine has some very apt cogs in its machinery deriving from 17 former Blizzard employees, "including lead and senior developers from the
World of Warcraft team," including lead designer Kevin Beardslee, who is now the vice president of design.
Additionally, former
Fallout designer Tim Cain has been tapped to be the programmer director. Carbine is currently working on an unannounced MMO, according to their website. No other details have been revealed, but the team definitely has a powerhouse of employees.
[Via
Gamasutra]
by Ross Miller Oct 3rd 2007 6:15AM
Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Adventure, RPGs
In celebration of
Fallout's 10th anniversary, new IP owner Bethesda Softworks have opened a contest for the aspiring Vault Dweller to design their own perk to be included in the upcoming
Fallout 3. The winner will also receive a bunch of gear for either PC or Console gamers (there are separate packages for each, listed on
the contest page).
You don't have to possess artistic talent to enter, opting instead to use one of Bethesda's 15 pre-made sketches. However, if you want to submit your own art work, photo or whatever, you're more than welcome to. Contest ends 11:59 p.m. ET on October 31.
by Ross Miller Jul 11th 2007 10:20PM
Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, RPGs
In a dark yet comfortable mini-theatre,
Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard guided us through the first 45 minutes or so of
Fallout 3, played on
an Xbox 360. Though a lot of what was shown and discussed was already revealed at their pre-E3 presentation
late last month, but we did manage to glean new details on the title and its direction.
The atmosphere of the game (and its soundtrack) is very akin to the 1950s look of the first two
Fallout titles, yet as Ron Perlman explains, the nuclear destruction happens in 2077. According to Howard, we're dealing with the future as envisioned from the past ... and the future had nuclear-powered cars and apparently never changed their taste in music. (Not that we mind at all.)
Comparisons to Oblivion are inevitable, so let's get those out of the way. As previously known, it does use an improved version of the Elder Scrolls game's engine, and you can really tell (for better and worse) with the animation "You can think of Oblivion as our freshman effort on next-gen platforms," said Howard. The movement was much more fluid, thanks likely to their new in-house motion capture capabilities coupled with the Havok physics engine. As many
However, in this build, the facial animations (and, as later pointed out by Pete Hines, the gestures) are not at this point realistic, though the lip syncing is accurate. According to Hines, much of the development time between now and its Fall 2008 release date will be spent tweaking such things, and hopefully we'll get some moving eyebrows. Say no to avatar botox!
Continue reading Joystiq impressions: Fallout 3
by Ross Miller Jul 11th 2007 6:30PM
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360
Bethesda Softworks executive producer Todd Howard, in giving the Fallout 3 presentations, had two Xbox 360's on hand. One had the flashing red ring, but Howard noted it's because there were no AV cables plugged in.
As to why he had a backup console, he quipped, "I do have a backup should one Xbox 360 fail ... evidently they do that sometimes."
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