* 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.

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Fallout 3 BROKEN STEEL: Continue your existing Fallout 3 game and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime. Broken Steel moves the level cap for your character from 20 to 30, allowing you to experience even more of the game, including new perks and achievements. Story: You may have dealt the Enclave a serious blow at Project Purity, but their forces are still out there, and still pose a grave threat to the people and security of the Capital Wasteland. In Broken Steel, you’ll continue your current Fallout 3 character past the events of Project Purity, and work with the Brotherhood of Steel to eradicate the Enclave threat once and for all. Travel to new locations like the Olney Powerworks, wield destructive new weapons like the Tesla Cannon, and fight powerful new creatures like the Super Mutant Overlord. POINT LOOKOUT: Point Lookout opens up a massive new area of the Wasteland – a, dark, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland. So hop on the ferry to the seaside town of Point Lookout, for the most mysterious and open-ended Fallout 3 DLC adventure yet. Story: Buy a ticket and hop onboard the Duchess Gambit, as Tobar the Ferryman takes you to the strange seaside town of Point Lookout. What secrets does the dilapidated boardwalk hold? Who lives in the sprawling mansion? Why is the Punga Fruit so important? And what horrors lie in the depths of the murky swamp? Point Lookout is the most open-ended DLC yet, and allows you to explore a huge, swampy wasteland any way you’d like. A completely new quest line allows you uncover the town’s hidden secrets and wield powerful new weapons like the Double-Barrel Shotgun against the swamp’s dangerous, and deformed, denizens.

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