Gameplayer Australia previews Fallout 3 (new screenshot)

Maybe the behemoth is the end boss !

 

The best picture that has been released yet.

 

The original number was 9 to 12, still have that on my notes.

Yep, they should focus on the models now, that still needs some work.

 

It's interesting because I like the new picture however the old ones still look as much shitty as they looked earlier.

 

a) I hope that is true - I could probably forgive a cameo appearance by some secret pre-war prototype weapon (equally, the background info for it is interesting).

b) Perhaps - and this thought might just suggest the first signs of insanity on my part - they've listened to the murmurs of disquiet about atomic weaponry, and reigned themselves in a little.

Still nice art, actually, very nice environment art. Although, that was probably never in doubt.

The reappearance of FEV could be explained via reference to decent and credible virology, but I suspect that it will explained via some sort of Master-type conspiritor instead.

 

They mentioned in one of these other interviews/previews/somethings somewhere that the fat man was going to be a hidden/limited weapon, sort of like the super Red Ryder or alien blaster. Well, only with more obscure ammo as well.

Also kinda wonder if the endings are gonna just be different blanket-endings more like a normal game, or the 9 to 12 means 9 to 12 different mini-endings endings you can change the outcome of, more like Fallout. Probably gonna end up with blanket-endings, but who knows. Don't remember hearing anything about it.

 

Seen my new epix shoulders?!?! Got 'em off 25 man.

 

So these are FEV mutants?
Now that is REALLY stupid. How could different mutants have been created the same way?
Supermutants couldn't hold small weapons besides being sterile. They also looked different. Idiocy.

I wonder why the screenshots are that small btw...

 

Described FEV purpose is inconsistent with Fallout, Fallout 2 knowledge.

Fat Man as homage for Atomic Annie is Bethout developers business, but for God's sake a short range catapult can not be an adaptation of long range cannon. It is loan from van Buren Reservation - Nuclear Nellie howitzer - also.

 

The line about the origin of FEV may well be Gameplayer Australia's, rather than official Bethesda backstory.

However, I would just point out that Fallout 2 is somewhat inconsistent with regards to the origin of FEV, as given in Fallout. (Suddenly, it was redesigned as weapon, rather than being merely the work in progress discovered as the accidental product of reasearch into a broad-range prophylactic.)

The FEV in Fallout 2 was employed much more obviously as a MacGuffin, whereas it is much more central to, and coherently explained, in the first game.

Er, maybe the Davy Crockett is a better reference point? I guess the point is that America was trying to develop atomic infantry weapons in the 1950s.

 

I like how in VB the FEV was actually the key to defeating the new threat (which turned out to be the old threat, the New Plague that the FEV was created to counter). And they managed to do it without inventing a brand new source of FEV.

 

I hafta tell you, one-shot Fatman doesn't sound so bad. It's still retarded weapon and it's design is simply stupid but it's better than shooting nukes left and right.
Doesn't change the fact that nuclear explosions are as popular in FO3 as farts.

 

Hmm exclusive? This article was published in the January issue of XBOX 360 the UK OXM. Including the new screenshot, though I didn't notice at the time as they had superimposed the pa slap bang in the middle of it. Are these mags affliated?

They missed off the best bit though, the OXM's cover tag line, "Fallout 3 We play through the next Oblivion!"

No it's not fun, which is why Fallout skipped it with a world map.

 

I'm kind of hoping that Bethesda is just overdoing the nuke explosions for these demos. I think we all know how the game media gets all teary-eyed for it, so I can't really blame Hines for doing this to drum up hype for the game. The line about "only getting one shot" makes me think that the fatman isn't the only thing that will be toned-down in the actual game. Or maybe I'm just being too generous here.

 

Nein! The FEV was designed to counter the biological attack on US soil. If we take the bible seriously.

Car door as shield? Fire hydrant on a tree as weapon? What are they smoking? Most car door won't withstand even a 9mm (or 10mm in Fallout world).

I wonder if there's another source other than the military base and the place was blew up. I know it has been dug out in Fallout 2 but that was set in California. Fallout 3 is set in Washington. Travelling thousand miles to capture normal human and turn them into Super mutant? Such is game logic!

Having super mutant as the villian is a turn down. They are after all, a tragic character. Hell everyone is a tragic character in the world of Fallout.