Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition

Overview

Fallout 3 is a 2008 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is set in the Washington metropolitan area 200 years after a devastating nuclear war. The player controls a 19-year-old who leaves a fallout shelter in search of their missing father.

It plays from a first-person or third-person view in an open world the player can explore freely. Combat can run in real time or be paused with the V.A.T.S. targeting system, which lets the player pick body parts to aim at, paid for with Action Points. The player builds a character with the seven S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes and thirteen skills, picks a perk at each level, and carries a wearable computer called the Pip-Boy 3000 for menus, maps and radio. A karma system tracks good and bad actions, and it changes how characters treat the player and which companions will join.

Fallout 3 is the third major game in the Fallout series and the first made by Bethesda after it bought the rights from Interplay Entertainment. Development began in late 2004 with a small team of about ten people and grew to around 75. Lead designer and writer Emil Pagliarulo wanted the bleak mood of the first Fallout, and executive producer Todd Howard wanted combat that mixed real-time and turn-based play, which led to V.A.T.S. Inon Zur wrote the score, and in-game radio stations play songs from the 1940s and 1950s. More than 40,000 lines of dialogue were recorded, a Guinness World Record at the time, with voice work from Liam Neeson and Malcolm McDowell.

It was released on October 28, 2008 in North America and in Europe at the end of that month. It sold 4.7 million copies in its first week. Some versions were censored: Australia refused classification until morphine was swapped for a generic drug, the Japanese version changed a quest about detonating a nuclear bomb, and blood and gore were reduced in the German version.

Five add-ons followed: Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta. They came to PlayStation 3 months after Xbox 360, in September and October 2009. The Game of the Year Edition, released on October 13, 2009, packs the game with all five.

Critics praised the open-ended play and flexible character levelling, and the game won a number of Game of the Year awards. Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 90 out of 100. Common complaints were bugs, stiff animation and weak AI. Estimates put sales at about 12.4 million by 2015. Fallout: New Vegas, a spin-off by Obsidian Entertainment, followed in 2010.

Official trailer

E3 2008 - Fallout 3 Trailer, Gamehelper. Watch on YouTube

Gameplay

Fallout 3 (PS3) Playthrough | Part 1 (No Commentary), Rellings. Watch on YouTube

Screenshots

Game details

Genres

Action role-playing, First-person shooter

Developer

Bethesda Game Studios

Publisher

Bethesda Softworks

Series

Fallout

Engine

Gamebryo

Composers

Inon Zur

Designers

Emil Pagliarulo

Writers

Emil Pagliarulo

Producers

Ashley Cheng, Gavin Carter

Directors

Todd Howard

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

No

Release dates

Editions

Buy this game

Disc IDs

The serial printed on the disc and the case. It tells you which region a copy is from.

Trophies

Trophies73

Platinum possibleYes

Platinum

1

Gold

7

Silver

24

Bronze

41

Total

73

Points

2265

Platinum time

40 hours

Difficulty

5 out of 10

Playthroughs for platinum

1

Playthroughs for 100%

1

Platinum without online

Yes

Online trophies

0

Boosting needed

No

DLC has trophies

Yes

Platinum includes DLC

No

100% includes DLC

Yes

DLC still for sale

Yes

DLC note

The five packs add 22 trophies outside the platinum.

Missable trophies

21

Chapter select fixes a miss

No

Separate trophy lists by region

No

Only in a language other than English

No

Region note

One list for every region.

Online-only version

No

Digital-only

No

Disc-only

Yes

Trophy list shared with other versions

Yes

Other versions

The original 2008 disc and the Game of the Year disc share the one list.

Players with the platinum

11.59%

• Platinum Trophy Collect all other 50 Trophies for this Trophy Platinum 11.6% of players
• Vault 101 Citizenship Award Got the Pip-Boy 3000 Bronze 90.97% of players
• The G.O.A.T. Whisperer Took the G.O.A.T. Bronze 81.58% of players
• Escape! Completed "Escape!" Bronze 85.96% of players
• Following in His Footsteps Completed "Following in His Footsteps" Bronze 57.4% of players
• Galaxy News Radio Completed "Galaxy News Radio" Bronze 48.44% of players
• Scientific Pursuits Completed "Scientific Pursuits" Bronze 45.51% of players
• Tranquility Lane Completed "Tranquility Lane" Bronze 48.42% of players
• The Waters of Life Completed "The Waters of Life" Bronze 46.12% of players
• Picking up the Trail Completed "Picking up the Trail" Bronze 41.97% of players
• Rescue from Paradise Completed "Rescue from Paradise" Bronze 38.24% of players
• Finding the Garden of Eden Completed "Finding the Garden of Eden" Bronze 41.31% of players
• The American Dream Completed "The American Dream" Bronze 40.47% of players
• Take it Back! Completed "Take it Back!" Silver 39.45% of players
• Big Trouble in Big Town Completed "Big Trouble to Big Town" Bronze 39.28% of players
• The Superhuman Gambit Completed "The Superhuman Gambit" Bronze 32.52% of players
• The Wasteland Survival Guide Completed "The Wasteland Survival Guide" Bronze 38.93% of players
• Those! Completed "Those!" Bronze 37.94% of players
• The Nuka-Cola Challenge Completed "The Nuka-Cola Challenge" Bronze 20.82% of players
• Head of State Completed "Head of State" Bronze 28.78% of players
• The Replicated Man Completed "The Replicated Man" Bronze 43.06% of players
• Blood Ties Completed "Blood Ties" Bronze 41.14% of players
• Oasis Completed "Oasis" Bronze 29.89% of players
• The Power of the Atom Completed "The Power of the Atom" Bronze 60.88% of players
• Tenpenny Tower Completed "Tenpenny Tower" Bronze 35.88% of players
• Strictly Business Completed "Strictly Business" Bronze 22.29% of players
• You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head Completed "You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head" Bronze 25.94% of players
• Stealing Independence Completed "Stealing Independence" Bronze 32.29% of players
• Trouble on the Homefront Completed "Trouble on the Homefront" Bronze 31.75% of players
• Agatha's Song Completed "Agatha's Song" Bronze 26.5% of players
• Reilly's Rangers Completed "Reilly's Rangers" Bronze 30.9% of players
• Reaver Reached Level 8 with Bad Karma Bronze 26.79% of players
• Mercenary Reached Level 8 with Neutral Karma Bronze 23.01% of players
• Protector Reached Level 8 with Good Karma Bronze 41.63% of players
• Harbinger of War Reached Level 14 with Bad Karma Bronze 22.61% of players
• Pinnacle of Survival Reached Level 14 with Neutral Karma Bronze 18.14% of players
• Ambassador of Peace Reached Level 14 with Good Karma Bronze 35.28% of players
• Scourge of Humanity Reached Level 20 with Bad Karma Silver 17.84% of players
• Paradigm of Humanity Reached Level 20 with Neutral Karma Silver 15.44% of players
• Last, Best Hope of Humanity Reached Level 20 with Good Karma Silver 28.7% of players
• Weaponsmith Made one of every custom weapon Silver 15.93% of players
• Doesn't Play Well with Others Killed 300 people Bronze 29.39% of players
• Slayer of Beasts Killed 300 creatures Bronze 42.12% of players
• Silver-Tongued Devil Won 50 Speech Challenges Silver 16.42% of players
• Data Miner Hacked 50 terminals Silver 19.07% of players
• Keys are for Cowards Picked 50 locks Silver 36.73% of players
• One-Man Scouting Party Discovered 100 locations Silver 26.7% of players
• Psychotic Prankster Placed a grenade or mine while pickpocketing Bronze 30.03% of players
• The Bigger They Are… Kill all the Super Mutant Behemoths Gold 16.19% of players
• Yes, I Play with Dolls Collected 10 Vault-Tec Bobbleheads Silver 21.85% of players
• Vault-Tec C.E.O. Collected 20 Vault-Tec Bobbleheads Gold 15.04% of players
• Aiding the Outcasts Completed "Aiding the Outcasts" Silver 47.72% of players
• The Guns of Anchorage Completed "The Guns of Anchorage" Silver 46.87% of players
• Paving the Way Completed "Paving the Way" Silver 45.09% of players
• Operation: Anchorage! Completed "Operation: Anchorage!" Gold 44.73% of players
• Into The Pitt Completed "Into The Pitt" Silver 43.71% of players
• Unsafe Working Conditions Completed "Unsafe Working Conditions" Silver 42.18% of players
• Free Labor Completed "Free Labor" Gold 41.19% of players
• Mill Worker Found All 100 Steel Ingots Silver 18.58% of players
• Death From Above Completed "Death from Above" Silver 42.1% of players
• Shock Value Completed "Shock Value" Silver 39.29% of players
• Who Dares Wins Completed "Who Dares Wins" Gold 35.85% of players
• Devil Reached Level 30 with Bad Karma Bronze 16.87% of players
• True Mortal Reached Level 30 with Neutral Karma Bronze 16.11% of players
• Messiah Reached Level 30 with Good Karma Bronze 25.22% of players
• The Local Flavor Completed "The Local Flavor" Silver 43.86% of players
• Walking With Spirits Completed "Walking With Spirits" Silver 40.89% of players
• A Meeting of the Minds Completed "A Meeting of the Minds" Gold 39.38% of players
• Bog Walker Discovered all locations within Point Lookout Silver 22.66% of players
• Not of This World Completed "Not of This World" Silver 45.34% of players
• Among the Stars Completed "Among the Stars" Silver 42.66% of players
• This Galaxy Ain't Big Enough… Completed "This Galaxy Ain't Big Enough…" Gold 41.66% of players
• Alien Archivist Collected all Alien Captive Recordings Silver 13.04% of players

Space and patches

Update patchNo patch

DLC

All five add-on packs are on the Game of the Year disc. They are also still sold separately on the PS3 store for owners of the original disc. Each pack has its own trophies.

Items

Name	Date	Adds	Price	Obtainable today
Broken Steel	2009-09-24	Raises the level cap to 30 and continues the story after the main ending.	US$4.99	Yes
Operation: Anchorage	2009-10-01	A virtual reality battle between US and Chinese soldiers in Anchorage, Alaska.	US$4.99	Yes
The Pitt	2009-10-01	A trip to Pittsburgh to infiltrate a slaver compound.	US$4.99	Yes
Point Lookout	2009-10-08	A swampy state park and the disappearance of a young girl.	US$4.99	Yes
Mothership Zeta	2009-10-08	An abduction aboard an alien UFO.	US$4.99	Yes

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

Single-player only, with no online features.

Online

Online servers runningNo online features

Plays offlineYes

Single-player only, with no online features.

Services

Service	Status
Online features	Does not exist

Reception

Aggregates

Outlet	Platform	Score	Scale
Metacritic	PS3	90	100

Critics

Outlet	Score	Scale
IGN	9.6	10
GameSpot	9	10
Eurogamer	10	10
Game Informer	9.5	10
GamesRadar	4.5	5
GameSpy	5	5
Official Xbox Magazine	10	10
PC Gamer US	91	100
Edge	7	10

Staff and cast

Staff

Role	Name
Director	Todd Howard
Producer	Ashley Cheng
Producer	Gavin Carter
Designer	Emil Pagliarulo
Writer	Emil Pagliarulo
Programmer	Guy Carver
Programmer	Steve Meister
Artist	Istvan Pely
Composer	Inon Zur

Cast

Character	Actor
James	Liam Neeson
President John Henry Eden	Malcolm McDowell
Narrator	Ron Perlman
Three Dog	Erik Dellums
Colin Moriarty	Mike Rosson
Madison Li	Jennifer Massey
Stanislaus Braun	Dee Bradley Baker
Colonel Augustus Autumn	Peter Gil

Notes for collectors

• The Game of the Year Edition came out in North America on October 13, 2009, a few weeks after the add-ons reached PS3.
• The Platinum asks for the other 50 base game trophies only. The 22 trophies in the five add-on packs sit outside it.
• At levels 8, 14 and 20 there is one trophy each for bad, neutral and good karma, and Broken Steel adds the same for level 30.
• The PS3 add-ons arrived months after the Xbox 360 ones. A PS3 update in September 2009 added trophy support for them.
• The Australian version swapped morphine for a generic drug, and Bethesda changed every version of the game to match.
• The Japanese version changed a quest about setting off a nuclear bomb in a town so that it cannot be detonated.
• Sony lists two European disc IDs for the Game of the Year Edition.

Credits

Publisher

Bethesda Softworks

Developer

Bethesda Game Studios

Director

Todd Howard

Released

2009-10-13

Age rating

ESRB M

Disc ID

BLUS30451

Region

US

Time to beat

about 26 hours