Fallout 3 Interviews

[GameBanshee News]

MTV Multiplayer Blog is offering the main part of their interview with Todd Howard. It starts with the interviewer desperately trying to attribute a political message to the game for some mystifying reason before turning to actual gameplay talk.

“I think leveling up in this game can be funny and you always get kind of cool [abilities],” Howard told me, as we discussed the franchise’s Perks system. “My current favorite one — and this was one of my favorites in the old games — it’s called Mysterious Stranger. And what that perk is is basically a mysterious person comes and helps you every once in a while. In the early games he would just pop up behind a barrel and shoot somebody. He’s a guy in a trench coat and a fedora. The way we do it in this game is: you go into VATs, and you go to shoot somebody, and if you miss for some reason and you have the perk, the mysterious stranger may show up. This guy in a trench coat just goes — BAM! — and kills somebody. And you go: ‘Where did that guy come from?’ It’s really funny.”

GameZombie.tv offers a video interview.

[DesR85]

If there's nothing political in the game, why bother looking for it? I find it stupid to look for something that doesn't exist in the game.