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• The game takes place 30 years after the events Fallout 2. The events of the much-maligned Fallout: Brotherhood and Fallout: Tactics never happened in the universe of Fallout 3.
• The game will feature a day/night cycle and changing weather.
• There will be 21 collectible bobbleheads hidden throughout the game for Easter egg lovers.
• The game will feature 20 licensed songs from the '40s that will be played through radio stations accessible via your on-arm PIP-Boy and radios peppered throughout the game world.
• There will be no drivable vehicles in the game, but you can travel between locations through subway tunnels.
  
• There are children in the game, but the team isn't sure yet if they will be killable as they were in the previous Fallout games.
  
• The game will have no multiplayer mode and no demo is currently planned.
• Downloadable content and player-created mods are being considered, but nothing has been finalized.
• The game will feature nine to 12 endings based on how you've played it.
• The game's version of Washington D.C. will include iconic landmarks and the general topography of the real city, but will not be a street-by-street recreation. The downtown area represents about one quarter of the in-game map.
  
• There will be fewer non-player characters in Fallout 3 than in Oblivion, owing to the game's post-apocalyptic setting. Almost all the NPCs will be killable.
• You'll be able to hire mercenaries to aid you as in the first Fallout game. You won't have much direct control over them.
• Among other statistics, the demo's loading screens contained a mysterious metric of "corpses eaten." "We're not talking about that stuff," Executive Producer Todd Howard said when asked about the stat.

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• As you may already know, the story begins with Snake thrown into a South American jail six years after the events of Snake Eater. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Russia abandoned many of its soldiers, leaving one military commander named Gene very sour. He plans on sabotaging the negotiations between Russia and the US by using nuclear technology stolen from both countries. Obviously, Snake will be in the middle of all of this.
• The character-generation system uses data from both the access point and PSP system information.
• You'll want to rotate characters in your party, as they'll suffer from exhaustion, and in the worst case scenario, fall unconscious during a mission. Let them heal their wounds.
• There's a lot to manage: "During your mission briefings, you'll be overseeing seven separate units for your army: Sneaking, Spy, Technical, Medical, Independent, Rookies and Prisoners."
• You can enter a unique Sleep mode which will transfer character data to any nearby PSP that's also in Portable Ops sleep mode.
• There's a mode called "Cyber-Survival," which is turn-based and similar to the Metal Gear Acid series.
• "Real Combat" is high stakes: if a character dies in multiplayer, they're dead in singleplayer as well. For obvious reasons, Snake can't partake in this mode.

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