Fallout 3 Preview

[GameBanshee News]

Bethesda is determined not to let up on the flow of previews, as the London tour produces another one, from Xbox360Achievements.

Fallout 3 also boasts a pretty innovative weapon creation system which allows gamers to purchase or pick up blueprints for weapons that once combined with a few other items around the map, can create some pretty destructive and quirky weapons. But seriously, it doesn’t matter what you create, you will never beat (we don’t think) the pure destructiveness of the “fat man”, Fallout 3’s very own mini nuclear catapult. You may have seen it make an appearance at the end of Bethesda’s E3 demonstrations but nothing could prepare me for the joy I had when I used it. I luckily stumbled across one when fighting through a bunch of severely pissed off super mutants at Washington’s Galaxy News Radio station and when their king pin, a Super Mutant Behemoth, came out of nowhere, I had no other choice than to use it. A carefully aimed shot (I actually missed the first shot *shock horror*) at this badboy’s chest and I was in awe of a destructive explosion that ensued followed by the trademark nuclear mushroom cloud. I would go out on a limb and say that this is one of the greatest gaming weapons ever created!

Innovative huh? I guess these guys never played Arcanum.

[darkpark]

I was thinking the same thing when it mentioned 'weapon creation' and 'blueprints'. Troika made an awesome game when they created Arcanum. Of course, other games had very good weapon/armor modification systems (e.g. KoTOR I and II) but I think Arcanum was the first game to employ blueprints that would allow you to create weapons/items from scratch.

Despite the fact that Fallout 3 won't be like the previous Fallouts other than in name, it still looks like it will be a very fun game.