Fallout 3 Preview

Gameplayer.com.au is offering a preview of Fallout 3 based on yet another showing of the E3/GDC demo from last year. The preview is filled with explanations from Pete Hines, who “takes us to a new Oblivion”.

So why did Bethesda choose this setting for their next game? (I can’t speak for the original creators,) says Hines, (Tim Cain and those guys, but definitely what makes Fallout memorable is that 1950s sensibility set against this post-nuclear world. It was the Americana future they realised, that tomorrow land with robot maids and rocket cars and that sensibility that they had, that Leave It to Beaver gverything’s going to be okay’ outlook. In Fallout 3 people still cling to that idealistic view of how things are going to turn out, but everything’s just blown to hell. A lot of its flavour comes from this juxtaposition.)

The preview also has a new screenshot, albeit at a very low resolution, in the sidebar.