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Fallout 3 release date announced
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 21st August 2008
Fallout 3 will be available in Europe from October 31st, with a US release a few days before that.
While the game will see a multiplatform release on October 28th in the US, us Europeans won't see a release until October 31st...which is a trifle disappointing and may also open the game up to increased piracy as early torrents of the US version hit European servers.
Still, at least in Europe we'll be getting a full and uncensored release unlike the Australians.
Fallout 3 is a sequel to the classic Fallout RPG games from Interplay which were originally released on PC in the nineties. When Interplay fell on hard times however Bethesda worked to salvage the franchise and bought up the rights to a sequel. Though Bethesda has since licensed back the rights to an MMO adaptation to Interplay, the singleplayer rights remain firmly with Bethesda.
The game is set in Washington DC decades after a massive nuclear apocalypse which is heavily inspired by the culture of the 1950s - expect lots of ray-guns, mutants and classic jazz. Players take the role of a survivor who has hidden in an underground vault and must venture into the world above in search of their father.
If you want to know more about the world of Fallout 3 then we suggest checking out our latest Fallout 3 hands-on preview or glancing over our interview with Bethesda's Pete Hines. Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Hardly a massive span of time.
Stalker does seem to have started a trend. Watching the previews for Far Cry 2, Borderlands and this, they all give off that same vibe. Its probably that the technology has got to the point where these open and largely non-linear games are possible and stalker just got the first punch in.
My thoughts exactly. I was thinking 3 weeks not 3 days. Given it's been years since the last one, three days I aint gonna mind.
Still a long time to wait
but i have to ask... if theres only a 3 day delay. why not just wait the extra 3days stateside, to mitigate pirating anyway? if not for that reason, then to stop the staggered release idiots that usually moan forever about nothing. of whom i am one.
Well here in Canada (and probably the states) most new games/cds/dvds come out on tuesdays. I know I am waiting for Ultra Beatdown to come out on tuesday :) So there you go, Tuesday the 28th and Friday the 31st.
But in the end i think those three delayed days will hurt Bethesda, couldn't they put Fallout on Steam and release it simultaneously all over the world? This is the year 2008, that can't be a real problem.
Regarding what kind of DRM Fallout 3 will use:
Shack: Similar question in the sense that it's an issue that can be overblown. What kind of copy protection will be included on the PC version of Fallout 3?
Pete Hines: Pretty similar to what we did for Oblivion, which was--we basically don't do any--we do the mildest form possible.