Before the fall
Bethesda speaks out on the mixed emotions surrounding Fallout 3
You also shouldn’t expect the lewdness of Fallout 2, as Hines reckons it got “a little too caught up in trying to be funny or controversial or whatever.” Which is a shame, as certain we thought choosing to be a low-paid fluffer at a post-apocalyptic porn studio, only to find the fluid exchange left them with a traditional RPG poisoning, the height of hilarity back in 1998. Whatever the case, the smart bets are for Fallout 3 to be a free-roaming, first-person action/RPG - with more dialogue, violence and grit than The Elder Scrolls has ever seen.
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