Fallout 3 is a 2008 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The third major installment in the Fallout series, it is the first game to be developed by Bethesda after acquiring the rights to the franchise from Interplay Entertainment. The game marks a major shift in the series by using 3D graphics and real-time combat, replacing the 2D isometric graphics and turn-based combat of previous installments. It was released worldwide in October 2008 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
The game is set within a post-apocalyptic open world environment that encompasses a scaled region consisting of the ruins of Washington, D.C., and much of the countryside to the north and west of it in Maryland and Virginia, collectively referred to as the Capital Wasteland. Downloadable content is set in Pennsylvania, pre-War Alaska and outer space. 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. The main story takes place in the year 2277. 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 nuclear fallout, 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 US government that seeks to use it for their own purposes.
Fallout 3 received a number of Game of the Year awards, praising the game's open-ended gameplay and flexible character-leveling system, and is considered one of the best video games ever made. Fallout 3shipped almost five million copies in its first week. The game received post-launch support, with Bethesda releasing five downloadable add-ons. The game was met with controversy upon release in Australia, for the recreational drug use and the ability to be addicted to alcohol and other drugs; in India, for cultural and religious sentiments over the mutated cattle in the game being called Brahmin, a varna (class) in Hinduism; and in Japan, where a questline involving the potential detonation of a nuclear bomb in a prominent town was heavily altered. The game was followed by a spin-off, Fallout: New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Entertainment in 2010. The fourth major installment in the Fallout series, Fallout 4, was released in 2015.
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- Hollywoodedge, Knife Draws 02 KnifeD FS030205 (shorter grab sound)
- Hollywoodedge, Knife Draws 03 KnifeD FS030301 (Used for holstering/sheathing knive.s)
- Hollywoodedge, Sword Draw From Sheat FS032701 (Used when drawing the Chinese Officer Sword.)
- Hollywoodedge, Warning Buzzer Indus PE194401 (slightly modified)
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRICITY, SPARK - HIGH VOLTAGE SPARK, ELECTRICAL 05 (Heard in a low volume when reloading the Alien Blaster.)
- Sound Ideas, GUN, HOLSTER - DRAW HAND GUN FROM HOLSTER 02 (Increased speed; used for discarding misc. objects.)
- Sound Ideas, GUN, HOLSTER - DRAW HAND GUN FROM HOLSTER 03 (slightly modified)
- Sound Ideas, GUN, MACHINE GUN - GIAT, AA 52 / AA F1, 7. 62MM MACHINE GUN: FIRE 50 ROUND BURST (Slightly modified version used for the Minigun.)
- Sound Ideas, GUN, MACHINE, FOLEY - M-14: REMOVE CLIP
- Sound Ideas, GUN, MACHINE, FOLEY - M-14: REPLACE CLIP
- Sound Ideas, GUN, MACHINE, FOLEY - M-14: PULL AND RELEASE CHARGE HANDLE, FAST
- Sound Ideas, GUN FOLEY / HANDLING - .762 - AK-47 ASSAULT RIFLE CHAMBERING 01 (Heavily modified version used when reloading the Chinese Assault Rifle.)
- Sound Ideas, GUN FOLEY / HANDLING - .223 COLT AR-15 ASSAULT RIFLE CHAMBERING (3rd segment of 3rd cock and 4th cock used when reloading the Gauss Rifle and 4th cock used when clearing a Chinese Assault Rifle jam.)
- Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE, FOLEY - REMINGTON, M 700 BDL, 7MM BOLT ACTION RIFLE: OPEN BOLT 02 (2nd half; unused Hunting Rifle sounds.)
- Sound Ideas, METAL, SQUEAK - METAL SCRAPES (Heard when opening Vault Doors.)
- Sound Ideas, SCI FI - FORCE FIELD AMBIENCE
- Sound Ideas, SQUEAK, METAL - MOVE SIDE TO SIDE (Heard when drinking from a water valve.)
- Sound Ideas, TOOL BOX - HANDLE SQUEAK, CONSTRUCTION 01 (Used for opening and closing toolboxes and mailboxes.)
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