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Joystiq First Look: Fallout 3
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Take a revolutionary, genre-defining series of games. Put it into legal and developmental limbo for a decade or so as the rights get juggled around like a hot potato. Then try to update it for a new generation of hardware and players as an obsessive, tight-knit group of fans watches your every move.

No pressure, right?

Since Bethesda Softworks got the rights and started work on the next Fallout game in 2004, Executive Producer Todd Howard has been well aware of the expectations bearing down on him and his team. "The myth of Fallout has grown over those years that people haven't played it," he said at a demonstration of the game at the company's Maryland offices. "I think the game is great, but each year it gets better and better and better in people's minds. I'm not saying the game isn't awesome, but it's that myth of it. ... I think the expectations for Fallout 3 came back in a big way."

So does the early build of the game live up to the lofty expectations? Continue reading to find out.

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Author: Kyle Orland
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*Glees*

This. The game has the potential to be so big, you have to move your head to fit it all in. Im getting excited just looking at that picture, and when I see a gameplay video, I'll probablt get excited again, but physically excited!

*Refuses to read article as he doens't want to ruin the suprise, even if it turns out to be distinctly average*

hmm, cant edit posts in this thread? Any reason? was just going to correct my spelling mistake and I cant, oh well.

Hmmm, Eion mentioned that in another newsreader thread. I thought it was just the news feeds forum but maybe not.

Dog Pants wrote:Hmmm, Eion mentioned that in another newsreader thread. I thought it was just the news feeds forum but maybe not.

herecomespete's post was also while this was in the news feeds forum.

Dog Pants wrote:Hmmm, Eion mentioned that in another newsreader thread. I thought it was just the news feeds forum but maybe not.

You can edit posts that you made after a thread is moved, but not posts made while the thread is still in the news forum, it seems.

eion wrote: You can edit posts that you made after a thread is moved, but not posts made while the thread is still in the news forum, it seems.

Correct, though in my view posts should be moved by the mods into the relevant forum as soon as someone replies to them.

You lay down the law jack!

ffs, dont know whats up with my fingers today, but Im typing like a twatmangle!

HereComesPete wrote:You lay down the law jack!

ffs, don't know what's up with my fingers today, but I'm typing like a twatmangle!

And you appear to have lost your apostrophe key.