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Fallout 3 is a single-player video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios. Released on October 28, 2008, the title belongs to the Fallout franchise and utilizes the Gamebryo engine. It is classified as a shooter and role-playing game, available on PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Xbox One. The game carries a Mature rating from the ESRB.
The software version identifier is 1.7.0.3. Review scores include 93/100, 91/100, and 90/100, with a Metacritic score of 91. Other ratings include 4.08, 83, and a critic rating of 89 based on 10 reviews. The game has 28,311 social media followers and is referenced by 418 other encyclopedia articles.
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Game data
Metacritic 91- Released
- 2008-10-28
- User rating
- 4.08 / 5
- Genres
- Shooter, RPG
- Platforms
- PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- ESRB
- Mature
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Game details · IGDB
Fallout 3 from the creators of the award-winning Oblivion, featuring one of the most realized game worlds ever created. Create any kind of character you want and explore the open wastes of post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. Every minute is a fight for survival as you encounter Super Mutants, Ghouls, Raiders and other dangers of the Wasteland. Prepare for the future. The third game in the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. Combining the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction …
- Released
- 2008
- Genres
- Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
- Game modes
- Single player
- Engine
- Gamebryo
- Franchise
- Fallout
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
Key facts
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Director
- Todd Howard
- Producers
- Ashley Cheng Gavin Carter
- Designer
- Emil Pagliarulo
- Programmers
- Guy Carver Steve Meister
- Artist
- Istvan Pely
- Writer
- Emil Pagliarulo
- Composer
- Inon Zur
- Series
- Fallout
- Engine
- Gamebryo
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360
- Release
- NA : October 28, 2008 PAL : October 31, 2008
- Genre
- Action role-playing
- Mode
- Single-player
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Encyclopedic overview
Fallout 3 is a 2008 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game, which was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, is set in the Washington metropolitan area 200 years after a devastating nuclear war. The player controls a 19 year old character who leaves a fallout shelter in search of their missing father. Fallout 3 features a freely explorable open world, and the player can engage in combat with a variety of weapons. The player can also initiate conversations with non-player characters, and depending on their actions, can affect how other characters perceive them.
The third major installment in the Fallout series, it is the first game to be developed by Bethesda after acquiring the rights to the franchise from Interplay Entertainment. Lead designer and writer Emil Pagliarulo favored an oppressive and bleak atmosphere, and took inspiration from the dialogue in the first Fallout game. Executive producer Todd Howard wanted the combat to be a mix of real-time and turn-based combat, so that it would appeal to both first-person shooter fans and role-playing game fans. Bethesda chose the Washington metropolitan area as the setting, as the studio was based in Rockville, Maryland, a city close to Washington, D.C.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fallout 3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.