Developers: Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher(s): Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax Media
Designer(s): Emil Pagliarulo (lead designer),Todd Howard (executive producer), Istvan Pely (lead artist)
Composer(s): Inon Zur
Series: Fallout
Engine: Gamebryo
Operating System: Windows XP or Windows Vista
CPU: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2500+ Intel Core 2 Duo / Athlon 64 X2 5200+
Memory : 1 GB (XP) / 2 GB (Vista) 2 GB (XP) / 2.5 GB (Vista)
Graphics Hardware: DirectX 9.0c compliant card with 256 MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better / ATI X800 or better) DirectX 9.0c compliant card with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI HD 3800 series)
Fallout 3 is an action role-playing shooter released by Bethesda Game Studios, and is the third major game in the Fallout series. The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 31, 2008 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Story
Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, 36 years after the setting of Fallout 2 and 200 years after the nuclear war between the United States and China that devastated the game’s world in an alternate post-World War III timeline. The game places the player in the role of an inhabitant of Vault 101, a survival shelter designed to protect a small number of humans from the nuclear fallout. When the player character’s father disappears under mysterious circumstances, he or she is forced to escape from the Vault and journey into the ruins of Washington D.C. to track him down. Along the way the player is assisted by a number of human survivors and must battle myriad enemies that now inhabit the area now known as the “Capital Wasteland”. The game has an attribute and combat system typical of an action strategy game but also incorporates elements of first-person shooter and survival horror games.
Following its release, Fallout 3 has received very positive responses from critics and a number of Game of the Year awards, praising in particular the game’s open-ended gameplay and flexible character-leveling system. The NPD Group estimated that Fallout 3 sold over 610,000 units during its initial month of release in October 2008, outselling Bethesda Softworks’ previous game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which sold nearly 500,000 units in its first month. The game has also received post-launch support with Bethesda releasing downloadable add-ons for the game.
