Naturally, in the past week IGN has gotten playtime on the highly anticipated Fallout 3. One of the staff members put down six hours of straight questing and killing. From the consensus that they made, Fallout 3 is shaping up to be a hit RPG/shooter like we've hoped.
The developers, Bethesda Game Studios, are keeping a lot of the game's plot a secret from everyone. What we do know about the story is that your character is a survivor from the nuclear holocaust of 2077. You start the game finally managed to escape out of the underground vault you've been living in for years in search of your father, who also recently escaped.
There's a unique system to the combat. You can either use the traditional first person shooter style to fight, or switch to a system that lets your character target different parts of enemy's body parts. Then after selected the body part and choice of weapon, you can watch your character gun down the foe in a cinematic fashion. Additionally, (and obviously) the game also looks great. The world looks expansive and detail and the character modeling is top notch.
We'll have to see how everything pans out when it hits store shelves in a couple weeks (October 28th). Below is IGN's video preview of the game.
The developers, Bethesda Game Studios, are keeping a lot of the game's plot a secret from everyone. What we do know about the story is that your character is a survivor from the nuclear holocaust of 2077. You start the game finally managed to escape out of the underground vault you've been living in for years in search of your father, who also recently escaped.
There's a unique system to the combat. You can either use the traditional first person shooter style to fight, or switch to a system that lets your character target different parts of enemy's body parts. Then after selected the body part and choice of weapon, you can watch your character gun down the foe in a cinematic fashion. Additionally, (and obviously) the game also looks great. The world looks expansive and detail and the character modeling is top notch.
We'll have to see how everything pans out when it hits store shelves in a couple weeks (October 28th). Below is IGN's video preview of the game.