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.

Amazon.co.uk Missteps

From Planet Fallout:
Amazon.co.uk has been sending e-mails for the people that pre-ordered the Fallout 3 Special Edition with some bad news:
Dear Customer,
We wanted to give you an update on the status of your order #XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX. We are sorry to report that the release of the following item has been cancelled:
“Fallout 3 UK Collectors Edition (PC)”
This [...]

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 [...]

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.

New Special Edition at Game

It comes with a BOS figurine. Just for the UK.

When Emil Speaks An Angel Gets Some Wings and a Beard

And Emil Pagliarulo decided to reply to an impromptu interview on the Bethesda Games Fallout 3 forum:
Can you target cars in VATS to explode?
Emil: No, you can’t. We actually experimented with that for a while, but found that the “battlefield” got so littered with “explodable” objects that you ended up having too many targets to [...]

PSU Interviews PH

PSU interviews Pete Hines:
PSU: How do you intend to make Fallout 3 approachable to those who haven’t played the earlier games in the series?
Pete Hines: Well, we make sure you don’t have to have played the previous Fallout games to understand what’s going on in Fallout 3. Obviously the control scheme should be familiar with [...]

Joystiq Fallout 3 Special

Joystiq also played Fallout 3 at PAX, and has an interesting piece to prove it. Here’s a snippet from some quick notes at the end:

On the topic of sex. “We haven’t pushed the limits with sex,” said Pagliarulo. “We found that the whole adult content thing, we knew we’d have crazy over-the-top violence and have [...]

No Trophies, No Love For the PS3

Thanks to Incognito I saw at Kotaku that there won’t be PS3 Trophies at launch for Fallout 3:
In an interview with PlayStation Universe, the company’s dashing Vice President of Marketing Pete Hines revealed that trophies won’t be making an appearance in the game…at least not initially.
“Not at launch…It remains to be seen what we do [...]

Fallout 3: Japanese Release Date

It’s official, Fallout 3 will be released on Thursday, December 4th 2008 in Japan.
Spotted at the Bethblog, I still don’t know if that’s the release date for other Asian countries at this time.

Howard in PAX MP3

Joystiq has an audio interview with Todd Howard:
In an interview with Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard we discussed Fallout 3’s lack of a MOD support and this generation of consoles. While Howard admits the team wants to add support for user generated content he confesses adding the feature — which was included in The Elder [...]

A Bit Late For Leipzig

There’s a lot of catching up to do by this blog regarding Fallout 3 in Leipzig, so let’s start, with the help of NMA’s Leipzig news coverage.
First the spoiler heavy UGO Gamesblog Vault 106 walkthrough:
In no time I had my task: deliver a letter from a Megaton denizen to her relatives in Arefu, a nearby [...]

GC is Starting

The Leipzig Games Convention is finally starting, you can see here the giant Fallout 3 booth.
Shacknews got some new pictures in Leipzig too, worth to check them out.
Spotted this at the Bethsoft Fallout 3 Forum, more news on this in a moment.

New Interview at EuroGamer

Eurogamer interviews Pete Hines, and this one is rather interesting for a change:
Eurogamer: A lot of the humour in Fallout 3 revolves around ironic juxtaposing of cheerful utopianism and grim reality. Is there a line at which that becomes trite?
Pete Hines: If it’s overdone and it’s not in the right tone, it absolutely does. Our [...]

EB Games Australia: Fallout 3 Release Date

Here’s a press release from EB Games as seen on GamerChip:
Fallout 3 MA15 and coming October 17th!
11/08/2008
Today is a great day for Australian Fallout fans! After recent news that Fallout 3 had been refused classification by the OFLC, many of us were worried that we wouldn’t see one of the biggest game of the [...]

Australia and Fallout 3: The Saga Continues

From IGN:
And so, the epic saga comes to a close – Fallout 3’s OFLC report has been made available to IGN AU; the contents outline the reasons behind the reassessment of Bethesda’s post-nuclear RPG in Australia by the classification board.
The biggest points to take away with you are that the essential nature of drug use [...]