Fallout 3 preview PC
Fallout 3 preview PC
Fallout 3 has a lot riding on it. It has to be more than simply a post-apocalyptic Oblivion, because the Bethesda set the bar so high with its previous game that expectations are almost unachievable. As you'll see in this preview of Fallout 3 though, the crucial word is "almost", with an engrossing storyline, cradle-to-grave timeline for the hero and new realtime/turn-based combat combination. To find out how the PC version of Fallout 3 is shaping up, read our in-depth preview in this issue.
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Fallout 3 preview for the PC
There's a real cradle-to-the-grave
sensibility about Fallout 3 that
immediately sets it apart as
something that's really quite different
from any RPG you've encountered
before. As you will probably know by
now, this post-apocalyptic action
adventure revolves around the premise
that your father has disappeared
from the subterranean fallout shelter
society (The Vault) that survives the
apocalypse, and is thought to have
ventured out and into the dangerous
and mysterious surface wastes. It will
be your quest to discover what has
become of him.
But to secure your empathy in the
iron grip of family loyalty, Bethesda (the
developer) is regressing far more
successfully than simple flashback cutscenes
would have enabled. No, you
will actually play your birth and
significant childhood moments,
making your first interaction at the
moment you are delivered from the
womb and choose to test your infant
lungs with baby's first wail. It's at this
point in the game that you're asked to
customise your adult character's
appearance, and it's from the
information that you give that the
game ingeniously reverse engineers
how your dad is going to look when
your baby eyes look up at him for the
first time. The bonding has begun…
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