Five reasons to love Fallout 3

Bethesda

This brings us to the second reason to be excited for Fallout 3, Bethesda. These guys are obviously huge fans of the previous games, but they're also wonderfully talented developers. The biggest fault anyone who played The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion could find was that the world, it's people and generally the lore itself was kind of bland and arguably trite in some ways.

None of that is fully Bethesda's fault, though. Creating your own IP can be both challenging and expensive in terms of time and money, which are two things a developer requires to create a great game. It's reasonable to think that this is part of the reason they bought the Fallout license.

So what it comes down to is that Bethesda are amazing game designers. They think up wonderfully creative ideas and do everything they can to implement them perfectly (or nearly so) in their games. Some observation of the E3 2008 live demos will reveal their little touches like the in-game radio, thematically correct yet functionally elegant user interface and a pretty convincing hacking mini-game as well.

05/08/08