Fallout 3 Interview

GameSpot has conjured up a short interview with Bethesda's Todd Howard, quizzing the executive producer about various topics related to Fallout 3.
Q: It's been said that the first Fallout, rather than Fallout 2, was the model that Fallout 3 was built on. What's the reasoning for that?

A: I think the first one has the right tone, and the ones after it tend to drift. I liked being a vault dweller, searching for water. That was a theme I wanted to pick up on again.someone who's lived his whole life in this out-of-touch underground world, who's thrust suddenly into a wasteland.