Fallout 3 Trailer Available Online

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » June 6th, 2007, 7:00

Fallout 3 Trailer Available Online
Voodoo Extreme and 1up are both hosting the long anticipated Fallout 3 Trailer. Looks like we'll be seeing the game in stores Fall of 2008. Says Bethesda's Pete Hines, Bethesda's PR point man: "Yes, that's in-engine (in-engine means it's done with game assets in our rendering engine, but isn't done real-time. If it was done in real-time, that'd be gameplay footage. This isn't something, for example, that was sent to some house [e.g. Blue Studios] so they could build assets and render it out, and create something for us to release [e.g. Dawn of War 40K intro cinematic]). Yes, that's The Ink Spots singing "I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire" Yes, that's Ron Perlman [voiceover man extraordinaire of Fallout 1 and 2]." The official site doesn't have a lot more in the way of detail than that.

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Post by **Joose** » June 6th, 2007, 7:17

Holy mother. Thats the game engine?

Screw Starcraft, this has got me all excited. I now need to change my undies.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » June 6th, 2007, 10:05

*splat*

If that's anything to go by, looks like at least the atmosphere is there.

*WANTS*

Post by **tandino** » June 6th, 2007, 10:19

Fuck's sake, I don't think I'll be able to coast along without an upgrade for much longer. But WOO all the same!

Post by **FatherJack** » June 6th, 2007, 10:27

Interesting in the way a 3Dmark scene is interesting, but doesn't illustrate very much about what sort of game it is. I never played the first two, most likely as at a quick glance they looked 10 years out of date, but I'm guessing the same sort of combat as they did in Oblivion, just a different setting.

eion · Post by **eion** » June 6th, 2007, 10:31

tandino wrote:Fuck's sake, I don't think I'll be able to coast along without an upgrade for much longer. But WOO all the same!

It's predicted to come out in Fall 2008 (and this is Bethesda, so it certainly won't be any earlier than that), so if Fallout 3 is all you care about then you can probably hold off on that upgrade for a little while longer.

Post by **tandino** » June 6th, 2007, 10:54

eion wrote:
It's predicted to come out in Fall 2008 (and this is Bethesda, so it certainly won't be any earlier than that), so if Fallout 3 is all you care about then you can probably hold off on that upgrade for a little while longer.

There's nothing really much stopping me upgrading to be honest, my overdraft will allow it. I'm mostly trying to find a nice new dual core motherboard with an AGP slot for my virtually brand new BFG 7800GS. It seems silly to sacrifice a perfectly good (£100+) card for a new motherboard.

Any ideas welcome.

eion · Post by **eion** » June 6th, 2007, 11:11

tandino wrote:
There's nothing really much stopping me upgrading to be honest, my overdraft will allow it. I'm mostly trying to find a nice new dual core motherboard with an AGP slot for my virtually brand new BFG 7800GS. It seems silly to sacrifice a perfectly good (£100+) card for a new motherboard.

Any ideas welcome.

I wouldn't go overdrawn just to finance a PC upgrade... I know, I know, I'm a bad geek and I'll have to give back my secret decoder ring.

I'm certainly not planning on taking my 7800GS over to my next machine whenever it comes. I need MOAR.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » June 6th, 2007, 11:28

FatherJack wrote:Interesting in the way a 3Dmark scene is interesting, but doesn't illustrate very much about what sort of game it is. I never played the first two, most likely as at a quick glance they looked 10 years out of date, but I'm guessing the same sort of combat as they did in Oblivion, just a different setting.

Graphics =/= Gameplay.

Fallout was about the atmosphere, the gameplay in general, how everything worked, consequences for actions etc.

You need to play them. Stat. They're utterly the most fanastical fantasic games ever.

The video is promising, to me at least, because it still has the fallout atmosphere attached to it.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » June 6th, 2007, 11:58

1 and 2 go tiem.

Judging how moist you are all getting at the prospect of number 3, I think I must have missed out on 1 and 2.

Trailer looks sweet, very cinematic, but I'm always wary of trailers with no in-game footage.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » June 6th, 2007, 13:44

Note: For those sweeping 1 and 2....please please make sure they're patched to at least the latest offical version.

Also, on no-mutants-allowed (google it), there's 3rd party patches which fix quite a few more bugs and quirks.

Fallout has alot of small niggly bugs, nothing showstopping though in the first game, but it NEEDS patching for much more fun.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 6th, 2007, 14:03

I love the song. I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire by The Ink Spots apparently.

What's this game likely to be? it reminds me of Bioshock. I've never played a Fallout game before.

eion · Post by **eion** » June 6th, 2007, 14:21

spoodie wrote:I love the song. I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire by The Ink Spots apparently.

What's this game likely to be? it reminds me of Bioshock. I've never played a Fallout game before.

You know what the previous Fallout games were like though? Open-world RPGs in the vein of Baldur's Gate etc. (but far more open), with turn-based combat. They were pretty fun.

Bethesda are keeping tight-lipped about what this one is going to be like. I'm guessing very different (and honestly I think I'd prefer an Elder Scrolls-style FPRPG with real-time combat).

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 6th, 2007, 14:27

eion wrote:You know what the previous Fallout games were like though? Open-world RPGs in the vein of Baldur's Gate etc. (but far more open), with turn-based combat. They were pretty fun.

Bethesda are keeping tight-lipped about what this one is going to be like. I'm guessing very different (and honestly I think I'd prefer an Elder Scrolls-style FPRPG with real-time combat).

I thought the previous ones were like Laser Squad, from looking at the screenshots. But I can't really remember how Laser Squad worked now.

eion · Post by **eion** » June 6th, 2007, 14:30

spoodie wrote: I thought the previous ones were like Laser Squad, from looking at the screenshots. But I can't really remember how Laser Squad worked now.

And I've never played Laser Squad.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 6th, 2007, 14:34

An Oblivion type game in post-apocalyptic land would be great though.

eion · Post by **eion** » June 6th, 2007, 14:47

spoodie wrote:An Oblivion type game in post-apocalyptic land would be great though.

This, hard.

hehe, hard.

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » June 6th, 2007, 16:17

eion wrote: And I've never played Laser Squad.

a better (or more recent) example would be XCOM, or any other turnbased squad tactics type gaem. but yes, the combat in fallout is very similar to the way it works in lasersquad. or just pretend its syndicate but turnbased, and without the r+d bits.

Post by **Joose** » June 6th, 2007, 16:54

Actually, only fallout tactics was really anything like xcom/laser squad.

The first two games were proper roll play games, like neverwinter nights, baldurs gate etc. Bloody good ones too; Im quite the RPG nerd, and those games are both easily in the top 5 rpg's ive ever played (and thats not just when they came out, I still think they are awesome). They hit all of the rpg buttons: the story was good, the writing was good, you actually cared about the characters you met, it had funny bits (zombie guy with a tree growing from his head: "I call the tree Harold. Only kidding....HES CALLED BOB!"), sad bits (I managed to keep the doggie in the original alive with me for ages. When he finally got killed, I almost wept), exciting bits, wierd bits (got forced into shotgun wedding? no matter, pimp off your wife for extra monies!), loads. Its brilliant.

If you havent played them, do so, now.

I do agree about the graphics though: the originals were great *despite* looking a bit shit. If they concentrate too much on the graphics, it would lose what made them great. However, if they can keep the greatness *and* make it shiney...

*sex wee's yet again*

Killavodka · Post by **Killavodka** » June 6th, 2007, 16:55

eion wrote:
You know what the previous Fallout games were like though? Open-world RPGs in the vein of Baldur's Gate etc. (but far more open), with turn-based combat. They were pretty fun.

Bethesda are keeping tight-lipped about what this one is going to be like. I'm guessing very different (and honestly I think I'd prefer an Elder Scrolls-style FPRPG with real-time combat).

Im guessing that the combat will be real time with the option of pausing to regroup. We will probably be all guessing til closer to the release date though so I'm not going to think tooo much about it, still splunge-worthy