Bethesda: Fallout 3 will have smaller world than Oblivion
- Posted February 15th, 2008 at 07:32 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Pete Hines, Bethesda’s Vice President of Marketing, has revealed that the upcoming post-apocalyptic outing Fallout 3 will feature a smaller game world than that of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Speaking to Australian website Gameplayer, Hines commented, "The world is much smaller than Oblivion, but packed with stuff to do. We've never bothered to walk across the world, but it's between 50 to 80 per cent of the size of Oblivion.”
"One thing we did well in Oblivion was the relative distance between you and things to do in the world. Drop a ball on the map and there's stuff to do within a certain distance. A world of endless space and meaningless walking is just not fun."
Fallout 3 takes place in a post-apocalyptic United States, ravaged by the onslaught of nuclear war. Players are cast in the shoes of a survivor living in the relative safety of Vault 101; a fallout shelter representing Washington D.C.
According to the developers, the game will feature a main quest of 20 hours long, with additional gameplay hours unlocked by completing various side quests and other miscellaneous tasks.
Fallout 3 is due out on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC later this year.
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Paranoimia |
Paranoimia- 7:42am GMT - February 15th, 2008
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This info was in OPM (UK) about 3 months ago!
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princevegeta1980
- 7:45am GMT - February 15th, 2008
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it's true that walking hour's on end with nothing to do isn't exciting but having great towns to explore more interresting and realistic, even if you do often get lost, 50% of oblivion seems a bit too small to me, hope it's more like 80% than i'll be happy with the free roaming place
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Dmanishigh
- 9:57am GMT - February 15th, 2008
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They should make it bigger with all the money made off Oblivion.
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IRONMAIDEN
- 12:26pm GMT - February 15th, 2008
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that's awful. half the fun in FO 1 and 2 was getting ambushed treking the wastes. BOOOO. bring Interplay back! lol
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SonyJunkie |
Bender6191- 3:42pm GMT - February 15th, 2008
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I've never played a Fallout game, ive only played Oblivion, and i love Oblivion, i cant stop playing it. Play it about 10-12 hours a day. Is Fallout better than Oblivion?
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Deldwen |
Deldwen1- 6:50pm GMT - February 15th, 2008
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YES IT IS FUN!!! THAT WAS THE GREATEST PART OF OBLIVION GETTING LOST!!! iit wasnt even BIG anuff!!! wtf wtf wtf!!!!
the beauty it simplistic like reality is what drew me in.. so your going to cram a buncha crap in a tiny area?? ooookkkkk
art is being lost to the lazy that are afriad to experiance somthing realistic/beautiful/ and creativly spritual
FU ( K modernvideo game desigh... im sick of it... EVERONES NEW FEAR IS FU**ING DIFICULTY AND ARTISTIC FREEDOM......
thats why i cant WAIT to change the world of how you all experiance videogames and the true essesnce and beauty of art
hehe and im doing that with "little" games you will later no as "**Destiny**" ,"The Suit", "String", "Vincent Veemer", "Deep Grass" and "Claus"
just wait ha... as you can tell im sick of videogames just being considered videogames
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Farseye |
Farseye- 7:26pm GMT - February 15th, 2008
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psn id^^ I agree with gingo, oblivion is fun and all but its just too big... this news is great considering the fact that its a shooter but smaller than the oblivion world... its a fps, but like a big world smaller than oblivion... going to be a great game ++
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Gen.Penguin
- 12:02am GMT - February 16th, 2008
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good. i would rather have a smaller world with more interesting theme rather than a big world with a cliche' medieval one.
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