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Interplay releases Fallout MMO art News
MMO PC News by Oli Welsh
Interplay has released some concept art images for its Fallout MMO in an effort to prove that the game is actually being made.
The art can be viewed at the forums for the game, codenamed Project V13. You need to be a registered member to view it - otherwise, GameSpot has it.
The art has been released "due to the lawsuit", according to developer Chris Taylor, who worked on the original Fallout games at Interplay. He's referring to the legal spat between Interplay and Bethesda, to whom Interplay sold the rights to Fallout in 2004.
Bethesda went on to release the phenomenally successful Fallout 3, but Interplay retained the rights to make an online game - provided it actually entered "full-scale development". Bethesda contends this didn't happen.
Interplay is countersuing Bethesda over various merchandising rights issues, claiming that it has lost money in the deal. The struggling publisher recently contracted Bulgarian studio Masthead, currently making its own post-apocalyptic MMO Eathrise, to work on the Fallout MMO.
The art shows some post-apocalyptic landscapes, a guy wearing goggles and carrying guns, and plenty of brown. There are cacti, abandoned industrial complexes and a habitat made out of a piece of aeroplane fuselage.
It all looks very Fallout, but however "full-scale" the development of this game is, we doubt the lawsuits are helping it get made.
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Digital_Forge
02/11/09 @ 09:39
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This is going to be one of those games that never arrives isn't it, it looks great with lots of potential, a huge fan base, yet a willy waving contest with lawyers will just throw it into the pit of obscurity.
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thedaveeyres
02/11/09 @ 10:14
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You can't sell the golden goose then go sneaking back into the chicken coop to steal the eggs.
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Al_Swearengen
02/11/09 @ 11:21
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Considering Interplay's net worth is basically nothing I'm suprised Bethesda doesn't just offer to buy them out. Then the game can finally be made, Interplay can develop it with Bethesda funding then Bethesda / Zenimax publish it.
Everyone's a winner, petit dejeuner! |
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@Al_Swearengen: Interplay were worth nothing a few years ago but their sale of IP (I think it was FallOut 3 and some other stuff) presumably boosted them up by several million. I'm sure Bethesda could probably buy them out _now_ but they likely don't want (or need) any more of their franchises. I don't know where the legal issue with Bethesda is going, judging by arguments on certain forums it seems that it's more complex than what is presented in news articles. My money would be on Bethesda at any rate.
As for FO3 and bugs, I barely encountered any at all on my X360 and clocked up over 80 hours through the main story then 3 lots of the DLC. I can certainly think of far buggier games out there. :) |
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Diogo_Ribeiro
02/11/09 @ 20:26
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"It all looks very Fallout"
Except the idea of having millions of Vault Dwellers in the Wasteland. |
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