Interplay teases Fallout Online

By Oli Welsh Published 5 July, 2010

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Still eager to prove that it's actually making Fallout Online, Interplay has started sending out teaser newsletters to people who sign up at the MMO's website - and has announced the fact in a press release.

The first newsletter, reported on and reproduced by Destructoid, takes the form of a spot of landscape concept art and a fragment of story. In the text, an adventurer reports the ravings of a madman about a "Monkey Butt Mine" in a letter to a friend.

It's all very nice and very Fallout, but it doesn't really add up to anything like a game yet. Interplay started taking names for beta testing a couple of weeks ago.

Development of Fallout Online has been overshadowed by a legal dispute between Interplay and Fallout rights owner Bethesda. Until recently, Interplay would only refer to the game as Project V13.

Although the legal battle is currently in hiatus, with Bethesda having dropped its most recent appeal, Bethesda says it's not over yet.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Jonathan_Fakenham #1 2 years ago

    I love fallout, so don't get me wrong, but this will just be another failed MMO.

  • andywilkie35 #2 2 years ago

    This has Duke Nukem Forever written all over it. In 2017 they'll still say that its "coming along nicely" and then by 2018 it'll be canned.

  • geeza2020 #3 2 years ago

    "Interplay teases Fallout Online" - and nobody believes them.

  • LOLLERS #4 2 years ago

    Why does nobody want this game? Literally every comment i've ever seen about it basically says "pfft this'll be crap" based only on the fact that it's been announced!

  • SAMagic #5 2 years ago

    @Lollers: See this and the following section:
    [link url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplay_Entertainment#Financial_troubles
    ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplay_E...[/link]

    After the awful Fallout Brotherhood of Steel (Not to be confused with the Fallout Tactics version) and the fact they fired everyone at BIS, I don't believe they have any real faith or respect for the franchise. Since Bethesda had enormous success with FO3, it looks like they're desperate to cash in on the franchise. Plus the content for FO Online looks like another dull WOW clone. I'd much prefer Bethesda take over the whole franchise if it goes to court.

  • Stop-gap #6 2 years ago

    It's not that no one wants the game. It's that it takes days to make some "concept art" and a fragment of story and years to make a MMO of acceptable size. We've been waiting years for them to show us something a bit more substantial than what the work experience lad could manage in a week, like a game or something else mad like that.

    Let's pretend that Interplay are left alone by Bethesda and get their finances sorted and even have a game well into production.
    They have none of the actual Black Isle Fallout team left, so anyone thinking that it will be a somehow "truer" Fallout than Bethesda's (and therefore somehow better) would, I think, be a bit disappointed.

    For the record I liked F3 a lot. It wasn't quite Fallout as it exists in my head, but only the worst nutsacks from NMA would begrudge it just because of that.

  • Acrid #7 2 years ago

    It's hard enough to make a succesful MMO that has a wealth of story, characters or ideas to draw from (Conan, D&D, LOTR), I don't think that FallOut has this, yes it would make a great game but what's going to draw in the outsider who hasn't maybe played FallOut or an MMO? and thats without all the legal wranglings etc

  • Ausir #8 2 years ago

    You're very much wrong about them having none of the original Fallout developers. See:

    [link url=http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Chris_Taylor
    ]http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Chris_Taylor
    [/link]
    http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_O'Green