If you are going to be skeptical about one thing for the rest of the year I'd suggest it is these screens. They're from a Polish site which claims to have gotten its hands on the paperwork from the whole Bethesda vs. Interplay lawsuit, and some of that paperwork included images from Interplay's forever in development Fallout Online, also known as Project V13.
The poster claims that these screens and artwork were sent into the court as proof that Interplay had been hard at work at making an MMORPG of Fallout and thus Bethesda has no right to sue Interplay over their lack of development on the game. So if these are real, what do we think? Doesn't look that impressive or like Interplay has done that much "developing" on it. Hopefully they turned in a bit more proof of actual progress on the game. We all know that screenshots and artwork do not a game make.
LAUNCH GALLERY (6 IMAGES)
Matthew Razak is Destructoid's Associate editor and co-founder of film site
Flixist. He began as community member "cowzilla" and was since sequestered to write brainy features material. He lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife.
Likes
Games! Movies! Hats!
Meet the rest of the team
| BBcode help |
| [b]Bold text[/b] |
Bold text |
| [i]Italic text[/i] |
Italic text |
| [url]http://www.dtoid.com/[/url] |
http://www.dtoid.com |
| [url=http://www.dtoid.com/]Web link[/url] |
Web link |
|
| [img]http://www.example.com/robot.jpg[/img] |
 |
Post a comment! You can also post a photo below:
Comment with Facebook
Click connect and comment instantly!
|
Comment with Dtoid
New? SIGN UP - it takes 5 seconds
|
29 comments | showing # 1 to 29
|
Comment with Facebook
Click connect and comment instantly!
|
Comment with Dtoid
New? SIGN UP - it takes 5 seconds
|
Comments policy
Destructoid is an open discussion community. You don't need to "audition" to post a comment - just speak your mind. We respect differing opinions on the site, so have at it. Be smart, funny, insightful, clueless, or cute -- but back it up with substance. Keep your cool, keep it fun. We only ask that you act respectfully and above all: don't be a troll and ruin it for everyone else. Don't bring down gamers or we'll, you know, gently shoot you in the face and stuff you into a flaming mailbox. Each comment is your opportuntity to make this community awesomer. Is that even a word?
Avoiding the banhammer only requires common sense: spamming, trolling, racism, NSFW stuff, and other forms of sucking will not be tolerated. If anyone is griefing please report abuse. Be good. Don't suck!
Contest:
11:00 PM on 11.14.2009
| 
It's strange to say so, since I did think Fallout 3 was somewhat dissapointing as a sequel to Fallout, but I hope they succeed in stopping this game. I just don't want it to exist and screw things up even more.
The images just don't remind me enough of the original series. Simple things, like the "13" on the back and the redesign to the entire suit, make me wonder why they would attempt to remake the universe, since those suits were never worn in the original universe.
Thats if those are actual ingame shots anyway, I can make concept art for 'Marvel VS Pirate Zombie Werewolf Ninja Vampires' but that doesnt mean itll happen.
It's not at all strange to think that at all. While Fallout 3 is excellent and probably one of the best WRPG of the past 5 years it is the general consensus that it is the weakest one of the trilogy.
Also I'm glad this project was killed, we already have a bloat of mediocre MMOs and above all Fallout is NOT MMO material.
If I were to fake up some screens I'd make them look super awesome.
Also, polish site.
This Alpha looks more like Alpo.
Look like poop
I realize that they might seem suspicious, but maybe you might be convinced by the fact that I also posted 4 pieces of concept art at The Vault on Friday, one of which ("Badass Armor") was posted by Interplay itself only yesterday in their forum. And I obtained the concept art and the screenshots from the very same court documents.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Ausir/Another_batch_of_V13_concept_art
http://interplay.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1887
The screenshots and concept art were submitted by Interplay as court evidence that the game is in production, and I was sent the court documents by someone who obtained them all. Which actually is not that hard, but requires paying a fee to certain law websites. Other than that, the documents are public.
And Interplay itself started releasing concept art because of just that "Some of the concept art for the game has been released due to the lawsuit."
Needless to say, I'm pretty sure that a Fallout MMO was never going to work, especially since Interplay haven't actually, you know, MADE anything for the past 8 or so years (at least, nothing I am aware of). Hell, it's a miracle that the company still exists - how many companies can work for 7-8 years on multiple products, produce bugger all, and still remain viable?!
Interplay is done for. I know it was a great company, I loved Earth Worm Jim and Fallout 2 and all that stuff, I know, blah blah blah, but let's be serious here, the company isn't even a shadow of its former self, it's a walking corpse imitating a working company. They will never finish the MMO, they'll almost certainly never release anything ever again, and die all over again, and that will be sad, but that's probably what's going to happen.
The first two allowed it, and 3 allows it with mods.
Regardless if these are real or not.. god damn I want this mmo so badly. The fan made Fallout Online will only hold my satisfaction for so long!