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.

XBox Focus Does a Silly Article

Worst article on Fallout 3 I’ve ever seen, in XBox Focus:
Fallout 3 has introduced a newer, more realistic system: rather than having one, almighty health bar for the entire body, there are different, specially designed bars for your head, torso and legs. While the words “health bars” may be synonymous with “1998″ these days, the [...]

GameStar.de Previews Fallout 3

From GameStar comes a a large article on Fallout 3, in German, here are some bits from a translation by Blintzler:
Our first step into the world of the 23rd century is on a hill. It’s warm and friendly; the wind rustles silently, mosquitos fly around our ears. All around us are the ruins of a [...]

XBox360 Fallout 3 Preview

It’s not a long one:
Survival in the wastes is a gruesome business. It’s a lonely one too. Under the game’s grim atomic sky you can walk for ages with only broken sections of motorway, brown desert, decaying houses and the occasional weather-beaten skeleton for company.
Sure, there are wild dogs, bloat-flies and propaganda-bleating eye-bots sent out [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Team XBox Interviews Howard

Team XBox interviews Todd Howard:
What are you doing right now, just tweaks and bug fixes?
Todd Howard: Yeah, bug fixes. And making sure because we have the three platforms – 360, PS3 and PC – that, you know, it’s going to be consistent quality across the board. Because we might tweak one thing on one [...]

Fallout 3: The Whole Package

GayGamer takes a second look at Fallout 3 at PAX:
Entering the expo floor, it wasn’t hard to find the Fallout 3 booth with its neon sign and arrow pointing the way. Once I arrived I was thrilled to see that the Bethesda folks went all out in decorating their booth. A giant 50’s Airstream camper [...]

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.

Fallout 3: Full List of Achievements

XBox360Achiements.org has the full list of Fallout 3 Achievements. Kinda of spoilerish, but if you are indeed curious hop in into the achievement train.

PAX: CrunchGear Hands-on Video

Spotted at NMA

more about “PAX: CrunchGear Hands-on Video“, posted with vodpod

V3D and VATS at PAX

More PAX coverage, this time at VoodooExtreme:
Instead of going up the hill after entering the wastelands, I went down towards D.C. Instead. Todd and Emil were on-hand giving me tips as I went along. One of the major features that I didn’t use too much the first time I played was the VATS system. The [...]