Bethesda, known for their seminal Oblivion series, showed off Fallout 3 to a bunch of game journalists, and Games Radar, yesterday.
The memorable moment that all previews have jabbered about is your opening moments to Fallout 3 – literally emerging from your mother’s womb.
Games for Windows editors Jeff and Shawn (whose magazine was unfortunately shut down a few days ago, our condolences) use some anatomical words that you should never Google, but are impressed by the matrimony between character creation, tutorial and actual gameplay - blurring the lines into one coherent experience, not jarring jumps between setting your nose arc percentage and then saving the world.
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Dogmeat, a loyal pooch from the first two Fallouts, is a (potential) companion in the game. He has plenty of uses in the game, “for instance, you can send him to go scavenge for food, weapons, and more, and he’ll disappear and return with what you ask him to retrieve provided that it’s actually in your general area. We’ll see how useful that actually is in the game, as apparently he can disappear for long periods if you’re not careful”, says IGN. He’ll also attack or distract enemies, but can be killed. Fable 2, eat your heart out.
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“As [Pete] Hines moved around dark corners, he showed off the system that lets gamers choose to play as a real-time or turn-based shooter. Basically, you hit a button to activate turn-based mode, pausing the scene, and queuing up specific attacks to enemies. After running out of your attack slots — these are based on the firing rate and clip size of a weapon — the action plays out in a brief movie-like sequence. Other times, he lobbed grenades around corners in real time” says Joystiq, noting how players can choose to play the game like an FPS or an RPG.
However, elements of both merge into one another; you don’t flip a switch to change from Half Life to Final Fantasy, elements of luck and your growing stats alter your shots in real time mode, for example.
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Fallout 3 is shaping up to be an incredible game. As much as I appreciated what Oblivion did, the fantasy setting didn’t do it for me. An apocalyptic wasteland though? Count me in.
[Source : British Gaming Blog]
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