

An entire game took place between these two numbered entries: Fallout: New Vegas. Between the end of the base game of Fallout 3, the Lone Wanderer went on to explore the East Coast while the Sole Survivor of Fallout 4 was waking up from a 200-year cryogenic nap. Many gamers were shocked to learn that a mere ten years occurred between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. They changed the isometric game into an open-world, action role-playing game. Bethesda made it clear that they wanted to make the series more accessible to all audiences. Their developers had some successful game series under their belts, like The Elder Scrolls, but Fallout was a fan-favorite series. The design is life-size and functions as a digital watch so that the collectible would not be ".just an inanimate object that sat there.Long-time Fallout fans weren’t sure about the future of the series when Bethesda obtained the franchise. According to a developer diary entitled "Creating Collectibles" by Bethesda Product Manager Pete Hines on the official Fallout 3 Web site, the idea for the special collectible hit while sitting in his office after a discussion with producer Todd Howard investigated how such a device might be replicated in the real world as a collectible. Earlier versions of the Pip-Boy functioned as the interfaces in the prior Fallout games. In the fictional post-apocalyptic world of Fallout, the Pip-Boy 3000 is a late-model version of a wearable computer device manufactured prior to the nuclear war that devastated the Earth. According to the press release, the "Survivor Edition" will include all of the specialty items included in the previously announced "Collector's Edition" along with a life-size replica of the Pip-Boy 3000, which functions as a digital clock. Today Bethesda Software announced an exclusive arrangement with to market and sell the "Survival Edition" of Fallout 3, its upcoming post-apocalyptic RPG.
