Release Day

The game is out in north America, a couple of days until it’s released in Europe. On that day I’ll stop updating the blog, for now check NMA and Planet Fallout for the tons of reviews pouring in.

Fallout 3 Reviews

The reviews of Fallout 3 are pouring in, here are a few examples:

PC Action Germany: 90/100
Official Xbox Magazine: 10/11
Official Xbox Magazine UK: 9/10
PSM3: 90/100
PC PowerPlay Australia: 90/100
PC Gamer Sweden: 81/100
PC Gamer UK: 90/100
PC Zone: 91/100

Most of this was spotted at NMA and Planet Fallout.

Emil Thinks We’re All Crack Addicts

Emil made an appearance at the BGS forums to defend his baby.  Some interesting comments in there about the inspiration for V.A.T.S. and the implementation.  Here’s one quote that tickled my funny bone:
It certainly wasn’t the case that we came up with a concept, put it into the game, and said, “There it is! It’s [...]

X-Play Fallout 3 Special

If you’re like me, you probably can’t even find G4TV on your television dial and luckily for us the good people at G4 know this.  They’ve posted up their Fallout 3 X-Play special on the internets for all to see.  Included is some great footage of Rivet City and commentary from Todd, Pete, Istvan and [...]

Gamasutra Interviews Todd

Gamasutra has posted an interview with Todd Howard.  While light on Fallout 3 details the interview does go into some of Todd’s view on game design:
As a game director — and it’s not like this is the first time you’ve done this — how do you even approach something like this? It seems like such [...]

Bring Back Will Wright

A new episode of Todd Time has gone live on G4TV’s website.  This week, Todd talks about reinvention in game design.  Recycling old ideas.  Professing his love for space marines and nazi killing.  Yeah, I’m not sure either.  Make sure you navigate away from the page before that E for All video starts, you might [...]

Ashley Cheng on Fallout 3

It has been a great year for Ashley Cheng, he’s gotten married and now he’s shipped Fallout 3.  He shared a few thoughts on the latter over at his blog:
There’s always some work to do, but I’m finally at the point where I can actually breath at work. The game is done done. Like done. [...]

Pete Hines: Bounty Hunter

According to Kotaku, Bethesda is searching for those responsible for the recent leak of Fallout 3 (360).  Pete Hines has made the solemn vow to hunt them where they sleep, to find those responsible and make them pay by any means necessary.  That’s not actually what he said, here’s the quote:
“We’re looking into it. Since [...]

GTTV Footage

As Briosa mentioned earlier, GTTV had an episode dedicated mostly to Fallout earlier this morning.  You can watch the episode over at Gametrailers.com,  There’s some new footage interspersed with lots of old footage and short Q&A sessions with various developers from the game.  There’s also some coverage on other games and an exclusive Red Alert [...]

Tonight on Spike TV

A message from Rohan at Gametrailers TV:
Hi! I’m Rohan from GameTrailers TV
I wanted to let you know that this Friday, tomorrow night at 1am on Spike TV, we’ve got a whole show on Fallout 3!
We went to Bethesda to talk about the game with the developers, received over 15 minutes of brand new, [...]

Fallout 3 Gold! It’s Official Now

From the Official Site:
October 9, 2008 (Rockville, MD) – Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax Media company,  announced today that its highly anticipated title, Fallout® 3, has gone gold and will be available on store shelves and online in North America on October 28, in Europe and Australia on October 30, and in the UK [...]

That’s all folks!

The last Vault Arcade comic is up, it ends with a whimper.  The big news though is that the BethBlog is having a contest to celebrate the end of the PA run (or maybe to celebrate the game finally coming out, could be a little of both)…

Send an email to bethblog@bethsoft.com. In it, let us [...]

Riding on the Metro

John Cangany of Washington D.C. alerted Joystiq to a new ad campaign by BethSoft in support of Fallout 3.  Apparently, these ads are having the desired effect:
Anyway, metro riders were transfixed by this ad. Unlike the “Fred, your ass is looking fat” hippo posters or the metro etiquette ads, the crumbling Washington Monument and mutated [...]

Fallout 3 Review From Sweden

Swedish PCGamer reviews Fallout 3, gives a 81% score, and Dupa got us some bits and pieces in English:
I just got the October issue of  swedish PC gamer and they have a review of the PC version of fallout 3.
In short:
score: 81%
Pros:
VATS
SPECIAL
Megaton at night
Cons:
A feeling of lifeless backdrops
Lifeless/stale Characters
To much on a too [...]

The DRM Interview

From the you’ve-probably-already-read-this file, Shack News conducted an interview with BethSoft PR Gorilla Pete Hines. The big take away from this interview seems to be the confirmation of minimal DRM for Fallout 3’s PC version:
Shack: Similar question in the sense that it’s an issue that can be overblown. What kind of copy protection will [...]

IGN Fallout 3 week: Good Karma

more about “Bethesda Blog » Blog Archive » Being …“, posted with vodpod

IGN Fallout 3 Weapons Video

more about “IGN Fallout 3 Weapons Feature – Plane…“, posted with vodpod
Spotted at Planet Fallout.