http://www.gamespot.com/news/6200678.html

Last week's launch of Bethesda Softworks' after-the-bomb role-playing game Fallout 3 was, appropriately enough, explosive. The publisher took a victory lap today by announcing some early statistics for the game. Bethesda said that it shipped roughly 4.7 million copies of Fallout 3 around the world last week. Sales of that massive stockpile surpassed the $300 million mark.

Both of those figures stack up reasonably well with last year's release of Halo 3. Microsoft's heavily hyped first-person shooter posted sales of $300 million in its first week on analyst-estimated shipments of 4.2 million. It's worth noting that Halo 3 was an Xbox 360 exclusive, whereas Fallout 3 is available on the 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, and the installed user bases of those platforms have increased significantly in the intervening year.

Fallout 3 was released on October 28 in North America and October 31 in Europe. It may receive another sales boost in the near future, given that Bethesda has planned a Japanese launch for the game on December 4.

Heya,

It's a game that has old tech rocking it's visuals and sound (but in a good way). It's a game that took a step away from a series but holds the name, none the less, being a different group than the original creators. If Fallout3 was named something else, I don't think it actually would have received so much attention nor gathered so many sales. We're talking about arguably the best RPG series ever created on the PC--Fallout. That alone will sell copies of this game.

I'm just very pleased that all things considered, the game delivered.

Now, I'm going to go back to listening to Galaxy News Radio.

"Revolution? Vacation? Somebody fart?"

Cheers,

I think I might become a Bethesda fanboy. They've just done so much good for us gamers (Non-obtrusive DRM, quality game, long play time, scalable graphics, and efficient graphics.)

oblivion lagged for me also but fallout 3 runs smoother than oblivion. I have both installed

That's not really a fair comparison; the Geforce 4 was already very old when Oblivion came out.

I really like Fallout 3; it is the first game I ever bought on the release date.

Definitely a different feel to Fallout 1 & 2 since it is an FPS/RPG, but the atmosphere what I expect a Fallout game should be. I do miss the dark humor of FO2 though.

Overall, I think it is a great game, but there are a few drawbacks:

1. Crash to Desktop - At first it wasn't bad maybe 7 or 8 hours of gamplay, then crashes became more frequent when the saved game file size grew larger than 2.5MB.

2. Freezing - Game simply freezes sometimes. No response from keyboard or mouse.

3. Sometimes when Fast Traveling, you drop directly into combat at your destination. Example, Paradise Falls, I travel there kinda often and boom a few times I appeared in the middle of combat. Grouse has been hurt. If he dies, then I can't get anymore slave collars. (Note: even though I am "Very Good", I was able to join the Slavers using Speech.)

4. Can't lower my weapon by pressing 'R'. I need to go into PIP Boy dis-arm myself, then lower my fists. Doesn't seem to happen when I am armed with a blade or bat.

5. Leveling up seems to be a little too fast and there's that Level 20 cap.

6. Dogmeat is nice to have I suppose, but leave him home when your level is high. I didn't get Dogmeat until I was level 13. He gets killed really easily; not surprising as enemies are leveled.

When I found out Bethesda was doing Fallout 3 I was cautiously optimistic. I figured it would get the world right but have bland NPCs and a generic plotline much like Oblivion did.

Now that I have been playing it obsessively for the past couple of weeks I must say I think Bethesda nailed it completely. Knocked it out of the park. This game is everything I was afraid to hope for.

After playing many, many hours over the last week, Fallout 3 inspired me to make this vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRh4EKDq1lQ

Violence FTW!!!

thanks
i dont know why, but ive never felt like making a video out of game footage before fallout, its wierd.