Fallout 3 Article Scans and Transcript

No Mutants Allowed has scanned all ten pages and created a transcript of the Fallout 3 article that debuted in the latest issue of Game Informer Magazine.

Like Oblivion, Fallout 3 offers tremendous freedom in what actions and missions you want to take on. However, unlike Oblivion, a single character can’t be all things to all people. Where your battle mage in Oblivion might have simultaneously been the heroic Champion of Cyrodil and the sadistic leader of the Dark Brotherhood, the quests you’ll encounter in Fallout 3 will offer complicated choices that take you down one path or another. If you make one choice, it may close off an entire branch of missions from ever becoming available. However, because of that one decision, an entirely new series of missions will emerge that the other option would never have revealed. Subsequent playthroughs of Fallout 3 with different choices may very well completely change the path of the story. One avenue might have you taking up the insidious role of a slaver, while more righteous choices will have a town greeting you as a hero even upon your initial arrival since they’ve heard of your beneficent deeds. “Even within the quests we’re trying to be careful to not just have the good path and the evil path, because a big part of Fallout is shades of gray,” Pagliarulo informs us. With a less concrete questing path, you’ll often find yourself swept up into tasks rather than being offered a formalized missions from some distressed townsperson – but you’ll always have choices about how to proceed, or whether you want to participate in the event at all. “It’s more about how you handle these different situations, and less which ones did you do and in what order,” Howard explains.

“Oblivion with guns” it is.