To say that Fallout 3 is going to be a big game would be considered a slight understatement with the news that the game will have over 100 hours of content and will feature over 200 endings. Yes, you read that right ... 200 endings.
In a podcast for Official Xbox Magazine, Todd Howard, big cheese at Bethesda, is claiming that the game is nearly finished and they've now moved into the final stages of adding a bit of polish to the game.
"Being that we are Bethesda, everything gets a bit big, so as of last week we're over 200 endings. That's not an exaggeration," says Howard.
Small differences in the game ending are multiplied by various factors in the game, influenced by the player's decisions and actions as they progress through the wastelands. The result is over 200 different endings, although I find it hard to believe that most of the endings won't be little more than subtle variations on a few key themes.
Ending 144 - character stares meaningfully at the distant wastelands, with a scar on their right cheek after random encounter with Deathclaw.
However, even if the endings are very similar I'm not complaining as this means there's a huge replayability factor in the game. Add the fact that the size of the game has grown from the original estimates and Fallout 3 looks like it could soak up many weeks of time for the keen gamer.
Holland states that "Fallout is probably twice the size that we originally had on paper. We've definitely gone overboard... It won't end up being as big as Oblivion, but it's approaching that. The game is easily a hundred hours."
This really does sound like my sort of game. Good news is that it is still on target for release this Autumn.
I wonder how long it will be after the release before someone claims to have discovered all of the possible endings.
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