Fallout 3 Preview

[GameBanshee News]

GameArena previews Fallout 3, being one of the sites that had a chance to check out the game's second demo during Pete Hines' recent tour in Australia.

Voice acting is a huge part of Bethesda’s plan in Fallout 3 as well. Hines told us,

We try and build everything to the idea that the player just loses themselves in this world and every step you take away from this, you know, having people talk to you and no sound coming out is just you know we just didn’t feel like it worked so you know we definitely wanted to do it and you know do it better than we did in Oblivion so order of magnitude more voices in the game so you don’t feel like you’re talking to the same 3 people in the game.

The whole game is running on an upgraded version of the Oblivion engine – and the upgrades are definitely noticeable. The nuclear weapons in the game really showcase how pretty the game can look and how well it can run – a dozen nuclear weapons being fired didn’t impact the framerate at all. To make the Wasteland malleable they’re using Parallax Occlusion Mapping, giving the illusion of deformable terrain – and it’s definitely convincing.