Fallout 3 to be Spells Free

GamePro.com sat down with Bethesda Game Studios’s Todd Howard to discuss their upcoming RPG, Fallout 3. Here’s a snip:

GamePro: To Oblivion players, what will Fallout 3 feel like? It’s obvious (to us at least) that combat mechanics and design play a much larger role in Fallout 3 than Oblivion.

Todd Howard: The overall game flow feels like Oblivion, in that you make your own character and then explore a huge open world and do whatever you want. The basic gameplay of Fallout 3 is similar, which is one of the reasons we really wanted to do Fallout in the first place. I’d say the amount of action is similar to Oblivion, not more, not less. The basic combat in Fallout 3 may seem more complex then Oblivion’s, but at the same time, there is no magic in Fallout 3, so we felt we needed to do as much as we could with the guns and add a nice layer of being able to shoot body parts and feel the effects of a crippled leg and such.

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Mass Effect on PC being co-developed by Demiurge Studios

Demiurge Studios will be co-developing Mass Effect on PC with BioWare. Demiurge Studios’s previous work includes helping Kaos Studios optimize the PC port of Frontlines: Fuel of War; they’re also responsible for the Wii port of Gearbox’s tactical shooter Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. According to the press release, Demiurge Studios will be helping BioWare re-design and optimize Mass Effect on PC. Full press release and 12 screenshots after the jump.

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