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Fallout 3

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    • Troubleshooting Fallout 3 on a Playstation 3

      If you slide the Fallout 3 game disc into your PlayStation 3 and it fails to play, it may be due to physical damage to the disc itself. If the data side is scratched, has finger prints or any other type of similar problem, it can make it difficult for the PS3's laser to read the data off the disc. Examine the data side of your disc... more »

    • How to Run Faster in Fallout 3

      While roaming the nuclear wasteland of Fallout 3, players are likely to cover a lot of ground. The open terrain makes for fun exploration, but it can also be tedious. There is a legitimate way to run faster in all versions of the game and a command line cheat that PC users can use to greatly improve the main character's speed. more »

    • How to Pick a Lock in Fallout 3

      Fallout 3, the long-awaited sequel to Fallout 2, takes the Fallout story into a 3-D world with a first-person view. As the world gets more realistic, so does the application of skills. Rather than simply having a high lockpicking skill, you actually need to simulate the picking of a lock in order to succeed. This can be a bit... more »

    • How to Get Into National Guard Armory in Fallout 3

      The critically acclaimed Fallout 3 video game gives players access to an enormous, post-apocalyptic rendering of Washington D.C. On the northeastern edge of the city lies the National Guard Depot and its hidden Armory. The National Guard Armory contains a wealth of supplies and weapons, the Small Arms Bobblehead, the Keller Family... more »

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    Fallout 3

    |version 1.7.0.3 (as of July 31 2009)
    |released
    |genre modes [[Single-player
    |ratings |ESRBM|OFLCAMA15+|OFLCZR16 |PEGI18+|CEROZ (18+)}}
    |platforms "gameinformer" />
    |media Blu-ray Disc, DVD, requirements [[#Bethesda Softworks|See Development
    |input Keyboard and mouse, gamepad
    }}

    Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios,"gameinformer_p1">"pcgamer"> and is the third major game in the Fallout series. The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 31, 2008 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360."Fallout 3 Has Gone Gold">

    Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, 36 years after the setting of Fallout 2 and 200 years after the nuclear war between the United States and China that devastated the games world in an alternate post-World War II timeline. The game places the player in the role of an inhabitant of Vault 101, a survival shelter designed to protect a small number of humans from the nuclear fallout. When the player characters father disappears under mysterious circumstances, he or she is forced to escape from the Vault and journey into the ruins of Washington D.C. to track him down. Along the way the player is assisted by a number of human survivors and must battle myriad enemies that now inhabit the area now known as the "Capital Wasteland". The game has an attribute and combat system typical of an action strategy game but also incorporates elements of first-person shooter and survival horror games.

    Following its release, Fallout 3 has received very positive responses from critics who praised in particular the games open-ended gameplay and flexible character-levelling system. The NPD Group estimated that Fallout 3 sold over 610,000 units during its initial month of release in October 2008, outselling Bethesda Softworks previous game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout+3

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