That's really the most important thing to remember about Fallout 3 - it's your game, so play it the way you want. Head straight into the ramshackle town of Megaton, and meat its eclectic inhabitants… or shoot first and exchange pleasantries later. Follow after dear old Dad… or forget he even exists. When that giant vault door slides open and you're thrust into the harsh sunlight of the Capital Wasteland, you're completely free to make your own destiny. Everything is fine and dandy, until your father - who has been the one constant in your life - decides to leave the vault unexpectedly, forcing you to follow in pursuit. It's a good thing you've been living underground for the past nineteen years, save and secure in an official Vault-Tec facility known as Vault 101. The "Capital Wasteland," as it has come to be known, is a nightmare landscape of roving Raider gangs, freakish Super Mutants, rotting Feral Ghouls, and malfunctioning military robots. Fallout 3 takes place two hundred years later, in the yer 2277, in post-apocalyptic Washington D.C and its environs. And then in the year 2077, at the climax of a long-running war with China, it all went to hell in a globe-shattering war nuclear war. It was an idyllic "world of tomorrow," filled with servant robots, beehive hairdos, and fusion-powered cars. In that other branch, technology progressed at a much more impressive rate, while American society remained locked in the cultural norms of the 1950's. Our world forked into one branch, the Fallout universe the other. Imagine if, after World War II, the timeline had split. At least, not yet.įallout 3 presents a much grimmer reality. Mankind may have witnessed the horror of the atomic bomb, but thankfully we've somehow succeeded in not blowing up the entire planet. But it's the aftermath of such a conflict that truly captures our imaginations, in a large part because there's no real-world equivalent we can relate to. The very words conjure images of mushroom clouds, gas masks, and bewildered children ducking and covering under their school desks. Oh, and one more thing, when you meet up with daddy, tell him I said hi! Game Information You can play this on Starcraft II.īe prepared to face the post-nuclear wasteland awaiting you.īe a saint towards people with kindness, or make them suffer like the devil. Now, you don't need a supercomputer to play this fantastic game. Many of you (including me after my computer quit on me) cannot play this game because of the technical specs. Fallout III is, in my opinion, one of the BEST games ever made.
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