Bethesda Fallout 3 - Playstation 3

Fallout 3 is a 2008     developed by  and published by . The third major installment in the , it is the first game to be created by Bethesda since it bought the franchise from . The game marks a major shift in the series by using  and , replacing the  graphics and  of previous installments. It was released worldwide in October 2008 for , , and .

The game is set within a post-apocalyptic, open world environment that encompasses a scaled region consisting of the ruins of , and much of the countryside to the north and west of it, referred to as the Capital Wasteland. It takes place within Fallout's usual setting of a world that deviated into an alternate timeline thanks to atomic age technology, which eventually led to its devastation by a nuclear apocalypse in the year 2077 (referred to as the Great War), caused by a major international conflict between the United States and China over natural resources and the last remaining supplies of untapped  and . The main story takes place in the year 2277, around 36 years after the events of , of which it is not a . Players take control of an inhabitant of Vault 101, one of several underground shelters created before the Great War to protect around 1,000 humans from the , who is forced to venture out into the Capital Wasteland to find their father after he disappears from the Vault under mysterious circumstances. They find themselves seeking to complete their father's work while fighting against the Enclave, the corrupt remnants of the former  that seeks to use it for their own purposes.