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All Fallout fans in India rejoice. After Microsoft India washed it’s hands off the Xbox 360 version of the game and other major India distributors shying away from the PC and PS3 versions of the game, the future of the game indeed looked more bleak then a post-nuclear apocalyptic landscape. Thankfully, Steam has stepped right in to the save the day yet again!
Another year, another E3, and another Microsoft Press Conference come and gone. After starting off with a lot of chest thumping (what else is new?) about how the Xbox 360 is the be-all-and-end-all platform for the casual and the hardcore gamer alike and a whole bunch of stats about how Resident Evil 5, Fable 2 and Gears of War 2 will represent more than half a billion in sales for the platform , we finally got to see a hands-on of BethSoft’s eagerly anticipated post-apocalyptic RPG, Fallout 3.
After demoing the game, which involved half of a mock trailer for the game (the other half will hit Xbox LIVE Marketplace as part of the E3 2008: Bringing it Home downloads later), an Eyebot (singing patriotically, of course) roving the ravaged Washington DC landscape and some time spent with the PipBoy 3000 before kicking lots of ass with the VATS system, the sniper and laser rifles, regular and EMP grenades and turning an enemy chopper and its hapless cargo into superheated vapor with the Fatman, Todd professed his love for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace by announcing that players can extend their 100-hours+ gameplay time with a slew of DLC which will be available exclusively for the Xbox 360 and the Games for Windows platforms.
Oh, joy, now I can pay 150 MS Points on the Xbox 360 and $4.99 on the PC so I can get some sort of horse armor, or better yet, a scratch-guard for my PipBoy! Hit the jump to check out the E3 Microsoft Presser demo and the “Perfect Life” trailer.
War might never change, but it looks like the Fallout torch has jumped hands from Interplay over to those of the Oblivion giant, Bethesda SoftWorks. After years of waiting for Fallout 3, and having many a person quit his day job to go stand outside Interplay’s offices and complain, it looks like the game may finally see the light of day.
GamesIndustry.biz picked up an SEC filing that showed Bethesda picking up the Fallout rights from Interplay for a cool $5.75 million, which basically allows them to develop multiple (now I know I am not the only one drooling about Fallout 4 and 5…) sequels to the franchise, in addition to licensing out the MMO rights back (yeah, you heard that right) to Interplay. Is it just me or am I the only one that can laugh at this and the Baikonur Cosmodrome rent control?
But wait, it gets even better for the poor guys at Interplay. Not only do they have to pay Bethesda for the MMO license, but they’ll have to share their sales and subscription fees, as well as make sure they get a whopping $30 million in funding within two years, as well as make sure that development wraps up within four years, or else they’ll lose it all. They could have just taken their pants down for Bethesda and bent over, that would have probably been a lot easier and probably a lot more enjoyable than watching the love of your life come back to stab you in the back.
But what do we care, right? I mean, I do feel a tad sad when much-loved game development companies shut their doors forever, but as long as someone else picks up the flag and runs with it, I don’t have anything to complain about. Unless it happens to be EA and System Shock… But hey, look at the bright side, this way, it’d most probably end up on the next-gen consoles as well!