Fallout 3 confirmed for 360, PS3

July Game Informer cover confirms that Bethesda is bringing the postapocalyptic RPG to Sony and Microsoft's consoles in addition to the PC.

Fallout 3

This coming to the 360, PS3, and PC!

The fog of mystery that has surrounded Fallout 3 for the past several years is rapidly dissipating. Yesterday, developer/publisher Bethesda Softworks revealed that the long-awaited role-playing game will arrive in fall 2008--some 10 years after Fallout 2. The confirmation came in the form of a teaser trailer, which showed off around two minutes of in-engine footage and confirmed several story and setting details.

One thing Bethesda did not confirm was which platforms Fallout 3 would be arriving on. Though originally developed for the PC, the game officially remains only a "next-generation" title. However, the fact that Bethesda's last RPG, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, was simultaneously released for the Xbox 360 and PC and later ported to the PlayStation 3 led many to believe Fallout 3 would arrive on all three platforms.

Though Bethesda is still publicly mum on the subject, the question of Fallout 3's platforms was also answered this week. Not long after the trailer debuted, Game Informer posted the cover for its July issue, which confirms that Fallout 3 will indeed arrive on the PC, PS3, and 360 in 2008. Sources close to Bethesda said the information on the GI cover was accurate, but would not go into further details.

The GI cover also added ammo to the theory that Fallout 3 would be a major departure from previous PC Fallouts and the widely despised console spin-off, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. The magazine claims that Bethesda's goal has been to "reinvent" the RPG, which was originally a top-down turn-based title, into an all-new "open-ended RPG." Both Fallout and Fallout 2 offered open-ended gameplay with many side quests inside a larger, linear storyline, as did Oblivion.

195 Comments

  • Oggan86

    Posted Jul 11, 2007 1:37 am GMT

    Totally agree with you, demagothfd. Definitely needs SPECIAL.
    and tryxtimus, I agree with you too. I actually remember a lot of quotions from Fallout 1&2, especially from the spoked dialouge.

    Anf for crying out loud, let it be mature rated, beth -.-

  • Daelock

    Posted Jul 6, 2007 2:27 pm GMT

    Dumbed down? So Fallout 1 & 2 was rated AO? I really think they're going for an M rating, so yeah you might not get to kill kids, but was that REALLY such an integral part of what made Fallout so great? Let's see what they're doing with the game before we start leaping to conclusions (I know, it's the internet and about three years too late for that)

  • gnomax

    Posted Jul 4, 2007 1:27 am GMT

    Migen666: F3 is coming out for PS3 & xbox360. So, you can forget about drugs, sex & killing children. And YES Bethesda is doing F3 for the wider range of players (TES & FPS players mainly).

  • Migen666

    Posted Jul 1, 2007 4:30 am GMT

    One thing that worries me about Fallout 3 coming out in PS3 and 360 is that generaly the console games got an PG rating of 12+ while the Fallout 1 & 2 had the PG 17+
    So basicaly, i`m worried that the dialogues on Fallout 3 will sufer with Bethesda trying to sell the game to a wider age range of players.

  • Migen666

    Posted Jul 1, 2007 4:28 am GMT

    One thing that worries me about Fallout 3 coming out in PS3 and 360 is that generaly the console games got an PG rating of 12+ while the Fallout 1 & 2 had the PG 17+
    So basicaly, i`m worried that the dialogues on Fallout 3 will sufer with Bethesda trying to sell the game to a wider age range of players.

  • gnomax

    Posted Jun 29, 2007 9:39 am GMT

    Oblivion with hand-held nuclear catapult and guns. Good work Bethesda !!! Jagshemash !!!!!

  • Poodlejumper

    Posted Jun 24, 2007 7:10 pm GMT

    Yup. Looling like Oblivion with radioactive mutants.

    Dumbed down for the kiddies. THey needed the Fallout license to do that?

  • BlackBaldwin

    Posted Jun 24, 2007 9:20 am GMT

    I'm a console gamer yeah I probably never played anything pc gamers have but heck I don't have 12 hundred to 6 thousand dollars to pay for a new pc and the one I have is a piece of trash worthy of a firely death. So far my biggest purchase was a 4 thousand dollar car and my xbox360. So if that tells you anything about me I'm poor and I'm not rich like all the other fanboys here are soo I don't care what anyone else says but I'm just glad fallout series is gonna continue and I myself might have a chance in obtainning a copy when it comes out.

    By the way Brotherhood of Steel came out for the ps2 demagothfd not xbox....

  • tryxtimus

    Posted Jun 21, 2007 5:05 pm GMT

    They'd better get some good writers. Not just for the plot either--the dialogue was one of the biggest elements that made Fallout what it was. Does anybody remember any catchy dialogue from Oblivion or Morrowind that your character said? How about something witty that was based on your high Intelligence stat? Or, if you were an idiot fighter that refused to take anything higher than a 2 in Intelligence? Oh wait, you didn't really have stats in either Morrowind or Oblivion...which is funny because stats are one of the major defining characteristics of rpg's that allow for custom characters with weaknesses that are more involved than just what skills a character has...on second thought--does anybody remember actually feeling like they were "roleplaying" in any of bethesda's games?

  • demagothfd

    Posted Jun 20, 2007 4:22 pm GMT

    Can I just say ABOUT FLIPPING TIME?!?! Now Beth, your making a game that is held in the same sanctuary as Star Wars, and if you can pull it off, you'll be George Lucas. If not, you'll be Jar Jar. Play the games (except for that crap BOS for the xbox). learn that ANYTHING goes. If we want to marry and whore out our wife for extra caps, we should be able to (see fallout2). If the ESRB gives you an AO rating, then you did your job. We will walk tall and snub our noses at the Wii owners who cannot buy the game (not flame, just truth). And Beth, learn about SPECIAL. It was and still is ground-breaking, it MUST be in the game. It will NOT be a fallout game without it. I hope and pray you due diligance with this one. This is more important to myself and others than your daughter's virginity. You mess this up and I will pray that Blizzard takes you over, those guys know how to make a game.

  • man3ater

    Posted Jun 20, 2007 9:30 am GMT

    The way Bethesda wants to make next game of Fallout is totally wrong.To the Beth devs...before you go to work for Fallout 3 GO HOME AND PLAY the whole serie of Fallout and see what makes the whole Fall games and Fallout title so unique .I don`t know how much new players gonna buy this game and like but you gonna lose all old players who own the original games and play them for sheer enjoinment.The whole point in F games is TURN BASED STRATEGY along with RPG ELEMENTS AND SKILL AQUISITION in a IZOMETRIC WORLD where is allowed all the THINKING AND SELECTION OF next movement.So if you strip all fofthat then is THIS IS NOT FALLOUT AND DON`T DESERVE THE NAME OF FALLOUT 3

  • RAKTHEUNDEAD

    Posted Jun 15, 2007 2:26 am GMT

    Err... Not exactly great news for me, unfortunately. My main problem, as I see it, with Oblivion was the fact that it appeared to be optimised for console playing rather than a PC platform. If Bethesda were to make Fallout 3 more suitable for consoles than the PC, I'd be extremely angry - I don't want to buy a PS3 in order to play the "purest" form of the game. (Actually, I don't want to buy a PS3 at all, but I digress.)

    I'm not a "PC Purist", as it were - I own several consoles, including the Wii, GameCube and even a Sega MegaDrive (Genesis for the American market). However, I do subscribe to the theory that certain games work better on different platforms. FPS games, top-down RTS games, top-down RPGs - all optimised for the PC, in my opinion. "jRPG"s, racing games, platformers, action-adventures - the strongholds of the console market.

    I'm well aware that this game is probably going to be an FPS - not exactly the move I'd like, to be honest, but that's another argument - and therefore, it'll work on consoles. However, I'd still prefer it to be optimised for the PC's traditional "WSAD" setting, at least on the PC version itself. To force a PC gamer to play a game that's optimised for another type of gaming machine using the "WSAD" system isn't my idea of a fun time.

    To sum it all up: OK, it's coming out on the more powerful consoles. That's alright and I hope that they'll have a good time with it. However, I'm not going to buy another seventh-gen console just to play the "purest" form of the game, and I'll be pretty damned annoyed if the game were optimised for consoles and I had to play a slightly crippled form of it on my PC.

    (Just an aside before I go: My major annoyance with this news is moreso the announcement for the PS3 than for the X360. I haven't got a problem with it coming out for the X360 as long as the PC version doesn't suffer because of it.)

  • truthfuldemise

    Posted Jun 13, 2007 10:31 pm GMT

    I will agree that Im past the point where I dont care as long as it comes our. Id rather have something to complain about than nothing at all.

  • aznkid254

    Posted Jun 13, 2007 12:31 pm GMT

    im definitely gonna get this for my PC or PS3....whatever one is cheaper or plays better

  • dashalcondoin

    Posted Jun 12, 2007 4:25 pm GMT

    Fallout for consoles? Yuk! I don't want a console RPG on my PC, way to ruin Fallout Bethesda.

  • Deano

    Posted Jun 12, 2007 3:12 pm GMT

    wow this game is ruined now it's coming out to the console, it'll be like the last fallout game that went to the console.

  • gruby

    Posted Jun 12, 2007 11:32 am GMT

    I like games with plenty of freedom, but not just huge empty world. In the time when I played Fallout 2 this was just unbelivable what you could do there. When I heard that it will be released on consoles one thing stroke my mind: " Nice looking, complicated at first glance then boring and simple after few hours of what apeared to be arcade style gameplay. I just hope I'm wrong.

  • dhh8088

    Posted Jun 10, 2007 7:42 pm GMT

    ah, i finally have an internet connection. Time to troll.

    Once, when I was a 14, I saw only the cover of Fallout in some Scholastic catalogue. I thought, "hmm, "looks like a cool game", even though I knew NOTHING about Fallout. Seven years later, I got a job and bought Fallout 2....and wow. It made me quit Halo 2. for a few months. The Fallout series definitely rocks, and I have a feeling this upcoming one, old-school or not, will too. Bethesda just CANNOT go PG-13 on Fallout3, and I hope they don't, because then it will just be a complete insult to 1 and 2. Also, whoever was responsible for the dialogue in 2 need to come back for this one. Well, time to disappear from the internet for another four months...

  • Kenaue

    Posted Jun 9, 2007 8:58 am GMT

    I didn't know they were working on Fallout 3. I thought it was lost forever like that Duke Nukem game.

  • ringbling

    Posted Jun 8, 2007 3:12 pm GMT

    Maybe it's just me, but 10 years between sequels is past the point where I say 'who cares'?

  • lithus

    Posted Jun 8, 2007 8:52 am GMT

    Guys, seriously. You're supposed to "comment" here, not write a friggen novel. If you want to wax on, go start a blog.

  • AnnoyedDragon

    Posted Jun 8, 2007 7:30 am GMT

    @Tremere1 A great game? Considering how the casual gamer loves it, maybe. But it doesn't deserve the Elder Scrolls name, it's so different from the previous titles it might as well be a completely different game. Oblivion was designed to appeal to a completely different audience than the previous game did, Bethesda screwed their Daggerfall fanbase and then their Morrowind fanbase and they will do it again to the Fallout crowed.

    Anyone who was into the series before Oblivion was announced knows this, taking apart classics and reconstructing them is a manner that appeals to the more profitable casual gamer is what Bethesda does best. Whatever made that game successful in the first place is discarded and forgotten for a short term revenue injection. A good deal of these people didn't even know what Fallout was according to Gamespots poll (46%) so I don't expect them to notice when a good classic gets screwed over.

    And for the record my computers hardware is just fine, I more than meet Oblivions recommended specs, but the way this game was managed makes more sense on a console than a PC. In the previous games cities were outdoors, you could jump right over a wall and land in them. But now they have been cut off from the rest of the world taking spells like levitation, slow fall and jump along with them to stop players getting over the entry zones. Bad memory and thread management can be blamed on developing Oblivion on a console whose specs were unknown for the first few years of development.

    Fallout may be coming out late next year, but I somewhat doubt the specifications of consoles will change by then. If Fallout is going to try to appeal through eye candy it will already be dated by PC standards, hell G80s already beat the best consoles and G90 will have its full range out by then.

    If Beth tries to appeal using visuals they will kill Fallout.

  • jacknifedakilla

    Posted Jun 8, 2007 6:33 am GMT

    Well, let me start now....


    WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! FALLOUT 3 ISN'T GONNA BE TURN BASED OR ISOMETRIC!!! WAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!! Give me a break. PC fanboys always tend to find stuff to piss and moan about. If they did make it isometric, then the same people complaining now would be whining about how they didn't do anything different from the last time. And before anyone asks, I have a decent gaming PC, so I'm not just a console player.

  • ewjim

    Posted Jun 8, 2007 4:48 am GMT

    Faalout for PS3?! Tat's good news for all PS3 owners!

  • digdongsegadead

    Posted Jun 8, 2007 2:56 am GMT

    to be fair the problems with Oblivion were bad consept decissions they want to open the game up to a broader slightly less comitted fan base. They figured that if they focused the storylines they could give you some better gameplay without the tedium of bookreading, and trial and error, and they did a great job. i hated Morrowwind and previous iterations of the game it expected you to be knowledgeable about the game from word go, with enemies surrounding you at all sides that could kill you by thinking about it and Story Missions so latent with a backstory they havent even told you yet, and i havent even gotten to the buggy glitch ridden gameplay. Oblivion went to far in the oposite direction i agree making the game way to easy, but i loved Oblivion because it didnt expect anything from me i didnt have to jump hurdles before i got the "privledge" of playing your game. if they reboaden the spectrem just a little bit they have the makings of a 9.9 quality game. Oh and the mod community is dieing across all games regretfully so dont cry for them Argentina.

  • riseofnations36

    Posted Jun 8, 2007 1:46 am GMT

    And the whole futuristic oblivion thing , i'm don't think thats such a bad idea . I played the first fallout , loved it . But i don't mind a change now and then.

  • riseofnations36

    Posted Jun 8, 2007 1:39 am GMT

    Sweet . One more reason to get a ps3 along with folklore , lair , mgs 4, ff 13 and the list goes on

  • kaan19

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 10:59 pm GMT

    I just played Morrowind and hated it: the graphs are perfect but what about the basics of FRP?
    FPS is a genre that I really like but when it comes to FRPs;well, they are a different story. Combining the two might create fans from the younger generation but for those who are at my age (those who played Fallout 1 and 2) the meaning of FRP is so different.
    I am not buying Fallout 3 if they turn in into Oblivion.

  • Tremere1

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 10:55 pm GMT

    @AnnoyedDragon.

    Easy there. Calm down. I suppose that you have a low-end PC? Bethesda gave the people what they wanted. A great game, with everything great in it. A nice CS to mod. The CS Wiki. Two expansions. The only thing Bethesda are guilty about is that they don't give support for the modders nothing else.

    @VegetaMaelstrom

    Well, it is supposed to be something like that.
    As far as I know and have read, Bethesda will use the same engine to make the game. The one that they used with Oblivion, and past Elder Scrolls games. That means the game can be modded again.

  • greywolfe615

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 7:30 pm GMT

    Bethesda's reputation took a big hit, in my opinion, when they released the unfinished and completely disappointing Star Trek: Legacy, and then abandoned any support for it without fixing the glaring problems it had. Just look at the reviews for it here on this site if you don't want to take my word for it. Watching how they just decided to cash in on a franchise title, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried the same thing with this sequel. Wait for demos and reviews before buying it, or get burned by Bethesda like every Legacy buyer did.

  • AnnoyedDragon

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 6:31 pm GMT

    @EXODYS Oblivion was a business success, but a good deal of the fan base loathed it. There is less of everything than in the previous game, the character is babied and hand led through the game, actions have little to no consequence, specialising is punished while multi classing rewarded, the auto levelling system eliminated challenge and the pride of achievement. The same bloated interface was slapped on all versions regardless of its suitability, the game was badly optimised on all systems, the textures are very low resolution thanks to console influence despite the PC version being able to handle better, city cells was badly managed resulting in significant lag and the removal of several abilities in the game *breath* seriously I can go on and on.

    The game had to be heavily modded before it was even deemed suitable and even then there are some things that just cannot be fixed.

    Don't confuse success in the market equating to a game being good; there are many who consider Oblivion the worst in the series so far, giving the fans who funded its development the middle finger and running off to a more profitable wider audience. If Fallout is going to appear on three different systems at once expect it to suffer from similar issues Oblivion did, Bethesda loves to cut corners by giving all systems the same treatment despite suitability.

  • nappan

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 4:43 pm GMT

    Besides excellent graphics and being a first person RPG, I don't see how this makes Fallout 3 "Oblivion 2". The gameplay in Oblivion was very distinct, and very D&D-ish, but found it's strength in a world to play in, not the story. Fallout games have always had their strengths in the story, with the world being a big fat bonus. I don't see why a fallout story/setting with the scope of an Oblivion type game is a bad thing at all.

    Bottom line: arguing that similar graphical quality and a shared perspective = the same game is akin to arguing that Quake or Duke Nukem 3d is the same as something like Daikatana. It's what you DO with the tools that counts!

  • Pleya

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 4:08 pm GMT

    I wonder what new this game will bring. Intresting.

  • EXODYS

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 3:04 pm GMT

    Since Oblivion was a success on multiple platforms, I am sure Fallout 3 will be too :-D

  • alberto2045

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 2:53 pm GMT

    awsome

  • Intrakitt

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 2:20 pm GMT

    The trailer brought back memories, and that's always a good thing when they are Fallout memories I think Bethesda will do good for this franchise, just so long as they make it gory as all hell. Honestly, I don't see that happening though as Oblivion was very light on blood. Please please please include my favorite perk though, "Bloody Mess"!!!!!!

  • qaz88aof

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 12:45 pm GMT

    It was so fun being able to CHOOSE how i would go about completing a quest in the first 2 fallouts... I better be able to make meaningful decisions in #3... like being able to shoot off a man's hand because he tried to steal my nuka-cola

  • EtriusQuill

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 10:35 am GMT

    I really don't like the idea of calling console gamers the lowest common denominator because that is basing everyone who plays a console to be well frankly stupid. That is untrue....it's just stereotyping based on what you play your games are on. That being said - a LOT of console RPGs are NOT really role-playing games at least in the traditional sense. They are fun however. I'm mainly a PC gamer and I find there are a lot more games on the PC that I like over console games - Gothic 2 for instance, Fallout 1 and 2 - Eye of the Beholder etc. but some of my best experiences playing games have been ON a console *Final Fantasy, Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid.*
    My opinion on the console vs. pc - why is this even being fought over? Even CONSOLE users know that their hardware is derived from ours and that PC's really are more powerful - so lets not make this an argument over which is better in terms of sheer power because CONSOLES will lose - in terms of gameplay and market base - consoles win because the games ARE simplified *well most are - not all* and more people own consoles then they do updated PC hardware.

  • AnnoyedDragon

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 9:53 am GMT

    Well this means it is going to automatically look and run like ass, all cross platform developed games do...

    Doesn't matter how good your specs are when it is designed around 512mb ram and there are G80s out to justify cutting costs in optimisation.

    Why not? They did it with Oblivion.

    In cross platform development everyone loses, even the console users will be getting less than standard visuals because it didn't get the additional time to be optimised that a exclusive title would.

  • Slyfox00138

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 8:19 am GMT

    That trailer looked AND felt completely fallout, and the fact is that it is the only thing we have to go on so far. If you want an completely isometric RPG, then go replay the first two because it is 10 years later, and the idea that bethesda was going to go down that path in this day and age is and always was a PIPE-DREAM, so theres no point in being disappointed about it. I say we stop with the negativity about this title (since as it is, we have seen very little to be negative about) and really give Bethesda a chance to see what they can do with this license. Im not promising that the end result wont suck, but I really dont think they are stupid enough to be careless with this title

  • VegetaMaelstrom

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 8:00 am GMT

    I hope we aren't just going to end up getting The Elder Scrolls: Fallout.

  • DangerousFat

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 7:39 am GMT

    Combat is only important so much that it be handled elegantly. There need to be plenty of options that are easy to execute. The thing is... and make no mistake, that Bethesda intends to make Fallout a mainstream title and not the niche success it used to be. I love Fallout, but the winds of change are blowing. I can guarantee and promise all of you it won't simply be "Oblivion with guns", Bethesda is smarter than that. I'd personally prefer a more KOTOR system, where I can set auto-pauses if I want or run the game COMPLETELY real time. Best of both worlds as far as I am concerned.

  • fastmiks

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 7:34 am GMT

    DangerousFat

    This is a really simple argument, no one has any idea what Bethesda is going to do with the combat system, so shush until you do. More importantly than that, if you think the combat system is what made Fallout unique and amazing, you're wrong, PERIOD. Fallout was unique and amazing for it's story, atmosphere, characters, open-ended game-play, etc. Considering that you could complete Fallout 1 and 2 without firing a bullet or getting into more than a few combats should inform you that the combat system CAN'T be that important. Yet another reason Fallout is one of the best games of all time. Options and choices. Just wait and see people, the trailer was 100% Fallout and Bethesda seems to have a lot of love for the game. Let them make or break it themselves, don't name the ship Titanic before the creators have named it.

    I completley agree with you, but dont strike out combat its also important but not THE MOST important thing of course. Well we canotinue discussion forever but lets just wait for gampley video which certanly wont arrive soon, so who didnt play fallout 1 and grab it now who did play grab it now and play again have fun both fallout fans and just RPG lovers, peace

  • TTDog posted Jun 7, 2007 7:21 am GMT (does not meet display criteria. login to show)

    TTDog

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 7:21 am GMT (hide)

    "gafferoo: Of course it will look and play much better on a PC."

    Ah the arrogance of a PC owner.... doesn't it just make you want to puke.

    Oh course if you want to pay up for a new graphics or sound card every 6 months when the next big title hits the PC thats up to you. Chances are it the game will look almost identical on all 3 formats.

  • DangerousFat

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 7:19 am GMT

    This is a really simple argument, no one has any idea what Bethesda is going to do with the combat system, so shush until you do. More importantly than that, if you think the combat system is what made Fallout unique and amazing, you're wrong, PERIOD. Fallout was unique and amazing for it's story, atmosphere, characters, open-ended game-play, etc. Considering that you could complete Fallout 1 and 2 without firing a bullet or getting into more than a few combats should inform you that the combat system CAN'T be that important. Yet another reason Fallout is one of the best games of all time. Options and choices. Just wait and see people, the trailer was 100% Fallout and Bethesda seems to have a lot of love for the game. Let them make or break it themselves, don't name the ship Titanic before the creators have named it.

  • gafferoo

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 7:17 am GMT

    Of course it will look and play much better on a PC.

  • fastmiks

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 6:45 am GMT

    satanyoka

    fastmiks- People have different tastes, don't be a douche bag to other peoples tastes.

    Well I did like Oblivion and Fallout for me is one of the best RPGs ever so I`m not a douche bag for anyone I`ll play fallout 3 no matter what , even if it wont meet some of my expectations...

  • tomivav

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 6:18 am GMT

    i dont think its going to be an oblivion clone. i mean, the feeling while playing fallout will never change.

  • ShotGunBunny

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 5:54 am GMT

    Hmm, the more I read, the less hope I have for it to be anything like Fallout 2.

    One crappy Oblivion clone, coming right up.

  • satanyoka

    Posted Jun 7, 2007 5:49 am GMT

    fastmiks- People have different tastes, don't be a douche bag to other peoples tastes.

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