However, worn-out firearms of the same type can be combined to make more reliable and powerful weapons. As a weapon degenerates, its damage is reduced and it loses accuracy. The Traits from the previous Fallout installments were combined with Perks in Fallout 3, and the player can choose a new Perk each time after gaining a level.Ī dynamic facet of gameplay is that firearms wear out from use over time. The maximum level the player can achieve is level 20 (which is to be raised to 30 after purchase of the third DLC installment, along with the ability to continue your game after the main story missions are complete). First Aid and Doctor have been integrated into Medicine, Throwing and Traps have been merged into Explosives, Steal integrated into Sneak, and both Outdoorsman and Gamble have been removed completely.

Five skills have been cut out from the game ( Fallout and Fallout 2 had 18 skills). Skills and Perks are similar to those in previous games: the player chooses three Tag Skills out of 13 to be the character's specialties. Additionally, several quests inside the Vault are able to influence the player character's relationship with his or her father. The character receives training weapons (a BB gun) and a Pip-Boy 3000 later on during childhood, and the player's performance in various tests determines the rest of the attributes. As a child in the Vault, the character receives a book titled You're SPECIAL, whereupon the player can set the character's seven primary aptitudes. Afterwards, the father removes his surgeon's mask to reveal a face similar to the one chosen by the player for the character your father's race will also be the same as your own no matter what. The player decides the character's general appearance using a Gene Projection, conducted by the father before the mother dies. Main character creation occurs as the player experiences the character's childhood. Main articles: Fallout 3 SPECIAL, Fallout 3 perks, Fallout 3 skills The gameplay features include real-time combat and first- or third-person perspective, in contrast to the previous games, which were turn-based and isometric. The game takes place in the year 2277, 200 years after the Great War, on the East Coast of what used to be the United States of America, mostly in Washington, D.C., southwest Maryland, western Pennsylvania and northeast Virginia. On November 11, 2015, Fallout 3 became backwards compatible exclusively for Xbox One and later Xbox Series X/S. It is available on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was released on Octoin North America, on Octoin Europe and Australia and on Decemin Japan. It is the third major installment in the Fallout series (fifth overall) and a sequel to Interplay Entertainment's Fallout and Fallout 2. Fallout 3 is a post-apocalyptic computer and console open-ended, action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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