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Fallout 3 an Exciting Post-Apocalyptic PC Game

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Fallout 3 might sound like another one of your average action role playing game but before you make any brash assumptions, read on first. The game is being developed by the Bethesda Game studios and is the third in the Fallout series which has also given us the popular spin-offs Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel and Fallout Tactics. For this third release, we are taken to the year 2277 exactly 36 years since Fallout 2 and 200 years since the nuclear war the destroyed and devastated the world in which this game is set. Some previews of the game showed that it would feature 2 different perspectives which are the first and third person perspectives. The player can actually randomly change to either perspective whilst playing the game. The creation of the main character occurs as the player goes through his or her character's childhood. In the vault during the character's childhood he or she receives a book carrying the title of "You're SPECIAL". This is where the player would be able to set his or her character's seven primary aptitudes.

The VATS otherwise know as the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System would have a key role during the phases in the game wherein the character would encounter a fight. Whilst using VATS, the real-time combat is subsequently paused which the Bethesda developers described as somewhat like a hybrid between the turn based and the real time combat. Every action in the game costs points thus limiting every combatant's moves at every turn. Also, the players can target areas of the body in order to attack, slow down and inflict their foe with specific injuries. The game also features a newer radiation and health system where the player would be able to know just how radioactive an object is as well as make approximations on how it would affect his or her game character.

The game also incorporates a karma system and this is also another important part of the whole gaming experience. The player's every action, from their conversations to their choice of combats would affect his or her status in the Fallout 3 world. Basically, a player who makes good choices would be more positively received by the NPCs whereas a player who does otherwise would be negatively received. A player can also commit a crime and the group to which this crime is committed against would be fully informed and aware of the player's wrongdoing.

Fallout 3 is slated to be released in 4 different versions, each one separate from the other but only 2 of these 4 versions would be available worldwide. The standard edition that is to be sold would only include the game disc, the game manual and no other extras. On the other hand, The Collector's edition would be jam packed with the game disc, the manual, a bonus cd containing "the making of video", a conceptual art book, and a bobble head version of the Vault Boy and all of these items would be contained in a Vault-Tec lunchbox. The 3rd version which is the Limited Edition package would contain the game disc, the manual as well as a figurine featuring the Brotherhood of Steel Power Armor. The last of which is the Survival Edition which is perhaps the most jam packed of the versions. It will contain everything that the Collector's edition has, a model of the PIP-BOY 3000 which functions as a digital clock.


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