Fallout 3 is a 2008 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
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Fallout 3 is a 2008 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
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Fallout 3 was met with universal acclaim and received a number of Game of the Year awards, praising the game's open-ended gameplay and flexible character-leveling system, and is considered one of the best video games ever made.
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Fallout 3 sold more than Bethesda's previous game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and shipped almost 5 million copies in its first week.
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Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, and within the region that covers most of the ruined city of Washington, D C, Northern Virginia, and parts of Maryland .
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Fallout 3 was initially under development by Black Isle Studios, a studio owned by Interplay Entertainment, under the working title Van Buren.
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Fallout 3 uses a version of the same Gamebryo engine as Oblivion, and was developed by the team responsible for that game.
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Pagliarulo took charge of writing the incipit of Fallout 3, then played by Ron Perlman, and he tried to be inspired by first Fallouts incipit, in 1997, which he considered vitally important to describe the story that Fallout 3 would have to tell.
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Several actors of film and video games lent their voices to Fallout 3, including Liam Neeson as James, Ron Perlman as the game's narrator, Malcolm McDowell as President John Henry Eden, Craig Sechler as Butch DeLoria, Erik Todd Dellums as Three Dog, and Odette Yustman as Amata Almodovar.
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The Fallout 3 soundtrack continued the series' convention of featuring sentimental 1940s American big band music, including the main theme, a few other incidental songs recorded by The Ink Spots and The Andrews Sisters, and songs by other artists such as Roy Brown, Billie Holiday, Billy Munn, Cole Porter, and Bob Crosby.
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Fallout 3 was released in five separate versions, three of which were made available worldwide:.
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Fallout 3 received "universal acclaim" from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
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Fallout 3 was critical of how the game recycled plot elements from the first two games, such as Super Mutants and the Enclave, saying that if his company, Troika Games, had acquired the license, he would have come up with a completely original story for the East coast.
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Fallout 3 won several awards following its showcasing at E3 2007.
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Awards, Fallout 3 won Role-Playing Game of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Original Story, along with being nominated for Overall Game of the Year, Computer Game of the Year, Console Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Game Design, and Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering.
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Fallout 3 is considered to be one of the best video games of all time.
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Fallout 3 was voted for and won the Adventure section for the platform Modern Windows.
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In 2012, Fallout 3 was exhibited in The Art of Video Games, at Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Not all fans were happy with the direction the Fallout 3 series was taken in after its acquisition by Bethesda Softworks.
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Bethesda Softworks changed the side quest "The Power of the Atom" in the Japanese version of Fallout 3 to relieve concerns about depictions of atomic detonation in inhabited areas, as the memory of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains strong in the country.
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