Fallout 3 E3 Previews
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During our demo we got to see the main character leave the vault, explore the nearby wastelands, visit a town called "Megaton" and meet up with some members of the Brotherhood of Steel. The game is using a modified Oblivion engine, and while Oblivion looks good, Fallout 3 looks fantastic. The level of detail is boosted up a notch or two and the result is all on the screen. We're told that the tweaks made to the engine allow the developers to make the world far more detailed than Oblivion ever was. Rusted-out cars, ruined mailboxes and crooked power lines all work together to create a very believable nuclear wasteland. Even the vault itself looked fantastic. Bethesda has gone to great lengths to take actual items from the first two games, such as air vents and chairs, and do its best to recreate them in 3D.
The second is at Gamernode:
After exiting the vault, the game shifts to a wide shot of the Wasteland. Sand blows through the ruins of a city, while cars remain deserted. "This is the wasteland, everything you see is open to explore," Todd tells us. Unlike many developers, Bethesda loves to make everything you can see the actual game, which is great.
And the third is at TwitchGuru:
While the first-person shooter mode may not be the RPG fan's cup of tea, the HUD mode should satisfy the needs of Fallout purists who yearn for an experience close to the original game. And from the looks of the demo, there should be plenty of combat to keep action junkies happy. Howard showed a massive firefight between Super Mutants and human members of the Brotherhood of Steel amongst the ruins of the Capitol Wasteland and it was an exhilarating sequence. There was even a boss battle; Howard fought against a large Super Mutant Behemoth with a delicious weapon called the Fat Man, which acts like an RPG but shoots mini-nukes.
