April 04, 2008 
Highly anticipated Fallout 3 is sure to please fans of the series, judging by the latest IGN preview of the game. The game features a mix of role-playing elements and FPS techniques. The way in which players set up their character can be called innovative, unlocking new settings as your character ages - and at the same time providing a sort of tutorial to familiarize yourself with controls and icons. Man’s best friend will be there to accompany you on your journeys if you let it. You find the dog when its former owner is assaulted by a group of raiders. The owner does not survive, but the dog is more than happy to join you. Dogmeat can be very handy during fights, but also to recover items you need - such as guns. You can count on Bethesda Softworks for dark post-apocalyptic environments with realistic atmospheres. The game offers various ways to solve situations, whether you build a heavy weapon specialist that uses brute force to get what he wants, or a stealthy assassin backstabbing opponents. Fallout 3 is scheduled to be released at the end of this year.
War, as the intro to Fallout 3 tells us, never changes. And for much of the last year, the information that we had on Fallout 3 itself hadn’t changed, as Bethesda Softworks kept a low profile as it worked on what is easily one of the most anticipated games of the year. But now Bethesda is looking to break radio silence, and we jumped at the chance to see the latest progress on this epic single-player role-playing game set in a memorable post-apocalyptic world. So buckle up, and we’ll describe what we saw at a demonstration of the game this week.
We learned last year that character creation was tied into your character’s birth in Vault 101, but we finally got to see what Bethesda was talking about. You’ll literally emerge from your mother’s womb and open your eyes to see a doctor and your father (voiced by Liam Neeson) looking down on you. Don’t worry: Bethesda doesn’t get graphic in this sequence; all you see in blackness before your eyes focus, but you can very clearly hear the doctor and your father discuss your birth. And like with any new baby, one of the first things they say is, “It’s a boy/girl!” That’s because this is the very first selection that you make when creating a character, and which option you choose will determine the gender pronoun used throughout the game (One fun little bit of trivia is that if you press the A button during this sequence you’ll trigger a baby cry).
Find the entire article at IGN’s PC section.
