At last week's E3, we not only had the chance to interview Fallout 3's product manager Pete Hines (watch out for the interview here on GamersGlobal in a couple of days), but also play the game itself for 30 minutes. The demo ran on an Xbox 360, but Pete assured us that the PC version will be exactly the same, although with keyboard/mouse control and user settings for resolution and so on. But on the high-quality widescreen monitor the game was running on, we didn't miss the PC: The E3 build started right at the exit on Vault, and when the heavy bulkhead opened to the outside world, the scenery and especially the viewing distance was astounding. "Nearly everything you see in the distance", Pete said to us a little while later, "you can actually go to."

So we walked down a little hill and into the wasteland. You can read about our hands-on experience (and about an important feature that could spoil the game for old fans of the series, but also for hardcore gamers) in our User Review category -- although it's a staff preview :-)