Fallout 3: No Nuclear Demo
Fallout 3: No Nuclear Demo
Pete Hines from Bethesda Softworks, known for being the developers of "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" and currently working on the long-awaited "Fallout 3", announced that there will be no demo version for the latter game. His reason for that step is actually quite simple and reads as follows:
"When you build it as one thing, there's no way to portion off a section and have it stand on its own without putting the whole game in the demo, which we're just not going to do."
So if we want to leave the vault sometime in fall this year to explore the world of Fallout 3, we will not have the chance to test the nuclear environment just for a bit; we will have to directly buy the whole game. Which, of course, many people will do anyway because it already looks pretty fine and promising. But especially some hardcore-fans of the first two parts of the series, who are sceptical (like hardcore-fans always are) because of the 3D-environment and some other new features, might have probably been more convinced to actually buy the whole game with a demo version then without. Same counts for me.
But then I look at the screenshots. And the scepticism slowly decreases again.
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How about reading a review of the game in a magazine or online outlet you trust?
This is of course a possibility. But although I read very good reviews about "Stalker" for example, I never got round to really purchase it because there was no demo available and I was not really sure if it would run on my system. And I did not want to trust the system specifications on the back of the cover. So I would have basically liked to play the demo to see how the game performs on my system (although, of course, demo and final game can also vary a bit).
A Demo is always great, but I can totally understand the decision in this case. A Demo is always difficult in an open world game, not only would you have to think about where in the storyline the demo should play, but since you could normally run around freely, you'd have to include pretty much all resources, ending up releasing nearly the full game.
I might not be happy that I can't try before buy, but it's better this way then what happened to the Gothic2 Demo. Gothic is also an open world game, but to limit the player in his exploration, there were invisible walls everywhere and (really ugly)signs saying that you couldn't go there...anybody else can remember this?
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