Fussbett wrote:

Earnest Cavalli, JULY 16 in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Eight wrote:

The key problem with the game though is in the writing. It really feels like someone wrote a fanfic based on the Fallout universe and somehow got the funding to create a game based on it. Though the story and characters are suitably gritty and conflicted, none of them are terribly likeable and the entire thing simply feels like it's trying too hard to adhere to the tenets of its predecessors.

I predict a heavy backlash from long-time fans. At best Fallout 3 will be the blacksheep of the series: An oddity played only for completion's sake by those who absolutely adore the original games.

Wired is always so in-tune with the future. Let's check the Fallout forums when the game comes out and see if Earnest's daring prediction was proven to be right.