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modeps
11-25-2008, 06:59 AM
The toolset called GECK, is on its way and will arrive next month. Additionally, three packs of substantial content will also be dropping early next year.

Official Release:
Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, today announced plans to make both its editor and downloadable content available for its award-winning game, Fallout 3 in the coming weeks. The official editor for Fallout 3, called the G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit), will be available for free download in December and will allow Games for Windows users to create and add their own content to the game. In addition, the first official downloadable content, Operation: Anchorage, will be available exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games for Windows in January, and more downloadable content coming in February and March.

“We’ve always seen the original world of Fallout 3 as a foundation for even more content. Some created by us, and a lot more created by users,” said Todd Howard, game director for Fallout 3. “It’s fun to create your own character, but it can be equally fun to create your own adventures. We can’t wait to see what the community does with the G.E.C.K.”

The release of the G.E.C.K. provides the community with tools that will allow players to expand the game any way they wish. Users can create, modify, and edit any data for use with Fallout 3, from building landscapes, towns, and locations to writing dialogue, creating characters, weapons, creatures, and more.

Three downloadable content packs will be coming to Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live starting in January that will add new quests, items, and content to Fallout 3.

# Operation: Anchorage: Enter a military simulation and fight in one of the greatest battles of the Fallout universe – the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders. An action-packed battle scheduled for release in January.

# The Pitt: Journey to the industrial raider town called The Pitt, located in the remains of Pittsburgh. Choose your side. Scheduled for release in February.

# Broken Steel: Join the ranks of the Brotherhood of Steel and rid the Capital Wasteland of the Enclave remnants once and for all. Continues the adventure past the main quest. Scheduled for release in March.

grognard66
11-25-2008, 07:06 AM
Operation: Anchorage - I guess Sarah Palin can't see China from her house.

I didn't realize Fallout had DLC console exclusivity for 360.

RevGored
11-25-2008, 07:12 AM
Hell ya, this is the reason I picked up the 360 version!

(Well, that and the fact that my PC is a TRS-120)

Johan
11-25-2008, 07:22 AM
Hell ya, this is the reason I picked up the 360 version!

So that you could utilize the PC modding tools and download some of the potentially dozens and dozens of incredible, and free, mods from the community in the coming months and years?

PC all the way for games like this (and Oblivion). All. The. Way.

mos
11-25-2008, 08:10 AM
Hell ya, this is the reason I picked up the 360 version!

(Well, that and the fact that my PC is a TRS-120)

I do not think this news means what you think it means.

Rayonic
11-25-2008, 08:11 AM
ANCHORAGE WILL BE LIBERATED. COMMUNISM IS A LIE. BETTER DEAD THAN RED.

I just want more Liberty Prime. Maybe he can face off against a giant Chinese robot or something.

modeps
11-25-2008, 08:12 AM
I do not think this news means what you think it means.

http://evavhost.com/i/other/inconceivable.jpg

thejeromer
11-25-2008, 08:25 AM
It's cool that the DLC is not exclusive to the Xbox and that I'll be able to pick it up for the PC, too. It's still weird booting up the game I bought on Steam and having both the Steam in-game overlay pop up as well as the Games for Windows Live overlay.

The Broken Steel thing sounds pretty cool.

Anyone else think it's awesome that their editor, Garden of Eden Creation Kit, took its name from the in-game G.E.C.K.?

alienchild
11-25-2008, 08:30 AM
Pack it together, put a label on it and sell it to me on Steam. $29.99 I heard you say? Deal!

randir14
11-25-2008, 08:54 AM
I don't understand how Broken Steel can work unless it forces you to play a different person...

Derella
11-25-2008, 09:02 AM
I don't understand how Broken Steel can work unless it forces you to play a different person...
Yeah... That's what I was thinking.

modeps
11-25-2008, 09:03 AM
I don't understand how Broken Steel can work unless it forces you to play a different person...

omg spoilers!

Ulysses
11-25-2008, 09:21 AM
Oh wow, that first one sounds like an FPS addon rather than one for an RPG. The other two sound somewhat interesting though, especially Broken Steel.

Zacharai
11-25-2008, 09:27 AM
Pittsburgh! I wonder if I can tour the remains of my old school...

goc_sin
11-25-2008, 09:47 AM
Awesome! I was waiting for the editor... now to remake the original "Wasteland" game.

lockwoodx
11-25-2008, 10:05 AM
and then the mods about the middle east were released, and there was much bitching in the media

Emabulator
11-25-2008, 10:07 AM
So that you could utilize the PC modding tools and download some of the potentially dozens and dozens of incredible, and free, mods from the community in the coming months and years?

PC all the way for games like this (and Oblivion). All. The. Way.As well as it has sold I'm fully expecting the PC mod community to step up big time with Fallout 3.

sgtslappy
11-25-2008, 11:58 AM
Cool, I just picked up Fallout 3 the other day.

Keep dying though >_>

Can't wait.

ResistanceAddict
11-25-2008, 12:01 PM
Wow, like this game isn't enough of an absolute time-stealer already...

lockwoodx
11-25-2008, 01:23 PM
As well as it has sold I'm fully expecting the PC mod community to step up big time with Fallout 3.


Co-Op is what I'm looking forward to the most.

ElfShotTheFood
11-25-2008, 02:22 PM
Co-Op is what I'm looking forward to the most.

Keep dreaming.

modeps
11-25-2008, 03:42 PM
Keep dreaming.

Considering that the community has already made a multiplayer mod (http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?page=2&searchid=10859) for TES4, its not just the stuff of dreams.

TheBot
11-25-2008, 08:51 PM
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Ahh! haha.

Can't wait!

Tremorlor
11-25-2008, 09:46 PM
Cool. Fallout 3 finally with a Fallout reference other than the name, even if it's only the editor. ;)

MacD
11-26-2008, 08:45 AM
Oh, man! Can't wait for the geck; fixes, new content...can't wait for someone to include a supermutant Kult of Speed (Red Ones go fasta!!!!)) or something similarly off the wall :)

But what I really want is a button which switches between stats/items/data in the ingame pipboy....

Stalwart
11-26-2008, 11:45 AM
But what I really want is a button which switches between stats/items/data in the ingame pipboy....

F1, F2, F3 will do it on the PC version. No idea about the console ports, though.