Fallout 3 developer Bethseda announced today a new entry in the post-apocalyptic role-playing series.
Fallout New Vegas is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment (Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II and Neverwinter Nights 2) with PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 versious set for release in 2010.
New Vegas will be a RPG in the style of Fallout 3. The studio noted that it approached Obsidian to make a new entry, not the other way around.
“It is not a sequel to Fallout 3,”
“It was just a great opportunity we thought to work with some guys who very clearly know Fallout–Feargus [Urquhart] and those guys were there in the early days of Fallout.”
Obsidian Entertainment was founded in 2003 by several former employees of Black Isle Studios, the company responsible for the original Fallout series.
We approached them. And obviously they were like, ‘Yeah!’ That was a pretty easy conversation,”
“It’s definitely an RPG. Same sort of experience as what folks got in Fallout 3. It’s not Fallout Tactics, it’s not Brotherhood of Steel. It’s another Fallout game in that universe.”
Obsidian is currently at work at a espionage-themed RPG Alpha Protocol slated for release later this year as well as a RPG in the Aliens universe but it appears to have been cancelled.
“[New Vegas] has no impact whatsoever on what [Fallout 3 director] Todd Howard and his guys are working on [internally at Bethesda],”
