Sometimes it’s bigger than others. Sometimes it’s fought with rocks and pointy sticks among fur-clad soldiers who understand a code of honor that can only be expressed in grunts and yawps. Other times, it’s fought with gatling lasers mounted on helicopters dropping napalm onto orphanages.
But besides that, war never changes.
In the 21st century, nations waged war over the earth’s dwindling resources. China marched into Alaska, the U.S. knocked over Canada, and Europe picked up where it left off in the 1940’s. The situation reached a fever pitch in 2077. Everybody couldn’t have everything, and so they nuked the crap of eachother. In 2 brief hours, the earth was toast. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, the sorry remnants of the human race arose and tried to get their cars started.
A few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground vaults, where they wore tight-fitting blue jumpsuits with large yellow numbers on their backs. Your family was among them. Your generation had lived without knowledge of pants and shirts. Life in the vault was about to change…
You may want to check out No Mutants Allowed. They have a lot of the sound files. They don’t have the actual songs, but they are encoded in .acm form on the disks. What you need is an .acm -> .wav converter.
I’ve beaten both of them, but when i tried to win the second one again, i couldnt remember how to get through the elecetic doors on the third basement floor (or the second)in the final building. I know you have to use an explosive on one of the consules, but i cant remeber which one!
I don’t recall, but if you’ve saved recently, you should just be able to blow each one and see what it does. For further information, try No Mutants Allowed.
Sadly, they’re not even working on Fallout 3 yet. Interplay’s secret project turned out to be a strategy game based on the Fallout franchise. It’s called Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. It looks like it might be a swell strategy game, but I really prefer RPGs.
Apparently, they’re still in negotiation about what the song in the intro is going to be, and in any case they’re not announcing it anytime soon. But I had some suggestions, which I’ve posted elsewhere.
First of all, the song should be an R&B love song, preferably from the 40’s, whose soulful innocence provides a counter-point to the violence and tragedy of the unfolding introduction. And the catch is that Louis Armstrong and The Ink Spots have already been used. With that in mind, these are some of my suggestions:
Ella Fitzgerald
Paper Moon
In the Starlit Hour
How High the Moon
The Five Keys
The Glory of Love
T-Bone Walker
Sister Lollie-Lou
Una Mae Carlisle and Fats Waller
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
The new demo is out for Fallout: The Brotherhood of Steel. In some ways, I’m excited. It’s not an RPG, but if some of the new features implemented here were brought to bear on Fallout 3, it would be fantastic. For one thing, it would mean much better control of NPCs, who tended to be a problem in Fallout 1 & 2 – it was hard to get them to use their best weapon, or stand in formation, or avoid shooting a dangerous weapon through the space you’re standing in. Right now, the interface is too hard to operate in real-time mode. You can’t have the kind of smooth micro-management you’d get with Warcraft. It’s better in turn-based mode, which is much more like the old Fallout.
I know the sensation. When I installed the new Demo, and that music started playing, I got the Jones real bad. I had to install Fallout and Fallout 2 right away.
