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July 15th, 2008I was very interested in Fallout 3 (the original is a long-time favorite), but now that I’ve veiwed the demo footage I’m very much underwhelmed. They’ve taken a great deal of what made the franchise unique - a turn-based, tactical RPG - and turned it into a slightly modified FPS, a post-apocalyptic Oblivion. It may be a fine RPG, but it’s not really Fallout.
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July 15th, 2008 at 3:15 am
Strange… perhaps it’s because I never played the other Fallouts, but this looked a lot more interesting to me than just a modified FPS. It actually sort of gave me a bit of a Bioshock vibe, although I know that Fallout was there first.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:25 am
I was only mildly disappointed by what looked like a complete revamp of the franchise from what we know and understand.
What bothered me was that the game looked very, very early. The animations were jilted. The gameplay had no flow to it. I would expect this type of thing a year out from release, but less than 3 months out is a bit unnerving.
Admittedly, the presenter was less than talented, but still, I thought they could have put together a much better demo.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:38 am
I’ll note that Game Life seems to agree with me… http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/hands-on-fallou.html#more
July 17th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Of course, Game Life seems to say that the “key problem” with the game is the writing, and not necessarily the combat engine.
Will be keeping an eye on it.