• The Secrets of Fallout 3

    October 17, 2009

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    The Secrets of

    Fallout 3
    Fallout 3

    * 1 In the world of Fallout, the nuclear bombs fell on 23 October. Bethesda wanted to make the release date of Fallout 3 coincide with this. It ended up releasing a week later in North America.

    * 2 Burnout’s crash mode replays were the original inspiration behind the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System (V.A.T.S.)

    * 3 The sound you hear played upon entering V.A.T.S. is the combat turn sound from Fallout 1.

    * 4 Fallout 3 began development in 2004 and was announced before Oblivion was even revealed.

    * 5 Artist Grant Struthers prototyped the V.A.T.S. camera system by filming his Incredibles action figures fighting.

    * 6 The very first piece of Fallout 3 art was created by lead artist Istvan Pely in 2004. It was the power armour image that eventually became the game’s cover.

    * 7 Bethesda Softworks was actually only based in Bethesda, Maryland for a short time. Its offices are now located in Rockville, Maryland.

    * 8 Actress Courtney Cox worked at Bethesda briefly in the 1980s.

    * 9 The bell that sounds after shooting the Fat Man Nuclear Catapult is the lunchroom bell at the Bethesda offices.

    * 10 The Fat Man is based on an actual nuke launcher, the M-388 Davy Crockett Tactical Nuclear Recoilless Rifle which was made in the 1950s.

    * 11 The cars in Fallout 3 are based on the Ford Nucleon, a concept car built to run on a nuclear generator in the 1950s.

    * 12 The Downtown D.C. area in Fallout 3 was originally twice as big, but the team decided it was too large and confusing and cut half the space out. Conversely, the Wasteland area eventually doubled.

    * 13 The voice of the baby you play at the start is game director Todd Howard’s son Jake on his first birthday.

    * 14 The voice of Timmy Neusbaum, who you have to make cry in Tranquility Lane, is the voice of Cullen Pagliarulo. He’s the son of lead designer Emil Pagliarulo.

    * 15 Mr. Handy and Harold are both voiced by Stephen Russell, who also plays Garrett in the Thief series of games.

    * 16 At one point, Fallout 3 featured a surgery minigame, where you had to cauterize your own wounds while watching your character scream in pain. The team felt it slowed down the game’s pace to just heal your limbs.

    * 17 In the original design of the game, you were actually able to drive Liberty Prime. You also did battle with a working and floating Rivet City.

    * 18 If you sneak up behind a Brahmin and activate it, your character will tip it over.

    * 19 A team of over 80 people worked on Fallout 3 covering three platforms – Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

    * 20 In the Hubris Comics’ building, there is a terminal in the computer games division that contains an actual working text adventure called The Reign of Grelok.

    See more detail:
    Fallout 3 Xbox360 Standard edition
    Fallout 3 Xbox360 Collector’s Edition
    Fallout 3: Xbox360 Exclusive Survival Edition
    Fallout 3: Xbox360 Game of The Year Edition

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