| | |  | | Home » Fallout 3 Collector's Edition | | | | | | | Description: | | Fallout 3 from the creators of the award-winning Oblivion, featuring one of the most realized game worlds ever created. Create any kind of character you want and explore the open wastes of post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. Every minute is a fight for survival as you encounter Super Mutants, Ghouls, Raiders and other dangers of the Wasteland. Prepare for the future. | | | Features: | |
• Enjoy your very own Vault Boy collectors item direct from Vault-Tec
• Includes The Art of Fallout 3 hardcover book of exclusive concept art and commentary
• Special DVD The Making of Fallout 3 included for a behind the scenes look at the creative team
• Includes fully customized metal Vault-Tec lunch box
• Receive these collector edition items with the game Fallout 3
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 6.25 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.25 inches | | Product Height:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.8 pounds | | Release Date:
| October 28, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 26 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| PlayStation 3 | | Media:
| Collector's Edition | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 A Big Bunch o' Extras for your Fallout 3 needs!Jan 07, 2009
By The Matrix Fan
"Video Gamer since 1979."
This review is solely on the extra items included in the Fallout 3 Collector's Edition.
In addition to the Fallout 3 game, this box set includes the following:
(1) The Art of Fallout 3: Conceptual Imagery, Volumes iii-xiii
(2) Vault-Tec Lunchbox
(3) Vault-Tec Bobblehead
(4) VDSG Holotape: Making of Fallout 3, Historical Series (Volume I)
Let's go into each of these items in more detail.
The Art of Fallout 3 - This is a 95-page hardcover booklet with conceptual drawings and artwork that cover several aspects of the game, with artist's notes included.
Pages 4-12: Pre-Production - Includes sketches of cities such as D.C., Rivet City, Project Purity, Wasteland, and Paradise Falls.
Pages 14-16: Pip-Boy - This section shows several concept sketches of the Pip-Boy device.
Pages 17-32: Costume Design - Here we see designs for wastelanders, raiders, slavers, merchants, Vault suits, and more - see how 50's brand clothing gets a post-holocaust treatment.
Pages 33-44: Creatures - Brahmin cows? Bloat flies? Deathclaws? They're all here, in their irradiated glory.
Pages 45-52: Robots - From the Protectron to Liberty Prime, every robot and their arsenal make an appearance.
Pages 53-60: Weapons - This section shows the more exotic and homemade weaponry of Fallout 3 with intricate detail.
Pages 61-70: Hardware - Everything from fission-powered automobiles to stainless steel bomb-protected buildings gets a sketch in this section.
Pages 71-90: The World - Several of the key locations, environments and structures are reviewed here.
Pages 91-95: Storyboards - Here, we see the storyboard sequence for the intro movie and a small battle segment.
The Vault-Tec Lunchbox - There's no shortage of artwork here. The top has the Vault-Tec mascot leading an exodus into a mountainside vault, the sides have S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attribute pictures, and the bottom shows an idyllic family picnic with the mascot reminding everyone to "Prepare for the Future".
The Vault-Tec Bobblehead - I must confess; I was a little disappointed at first. While the bobblehead was cute, the base had come off during delivery, but it was nothing a little super-glue couldn't fix.
Finally, the Making of Fallout 3 video.
The main video is 39 minutes long, made up of 4 sections:
(1) Fallout 101
(2) Retro-Futurism
(3) Duck & Cover
(4) The Art of Noise
Throughout the video, we get to hear from the following people, who offer a deeper and richer understanding of the time and effort that went into making Fallout 3:
Todd Howard - Game Director
Emil Pagliarulo - Lead Tester & Writer
Gavin Carter - Lead Producer
Steve Meister - Lead Programmer
Joel Burgess - Lead Level Designer
Istvan Pely - Lead Artist
Adam Adamowicz - Concept Artist
Pete Hines - Project Manager
Ashley Cheng - Production Designer
Grant Struthers - Special Effects & Gore (oh yes, that's his official department!)
Mark E. Lampert - Audio Director
Liam Neeson - "Dad"
Malcom McDowell - "President Eden"
The Special Features Menu offers the following choices:
(1) Official Fallout 3 Trailer
(2) Teaser Trailer for Fallout 3
(3) Poster Art - includes 8 pictures
(4) Concept Art - includes 35 pictures from the Art of Fallout 3.
For the hearing impaired, there are 5 language choices for the subtitles.
And what's the icing on the cake? When you use the Pop-Up Menu option on your Blu-Ray player, it opens in a Pip-Boy window!
There's a lot to love with this edition. If you like the game and want to know as much as you can about the creation, development and production process, you'll be in hog heaven with the Making of Fallout 3 DVD. For the aspiring artist, the Art of Fallout 3 is simply amazing to look at and offers a unique glimpse into the process of taking retro-50's concepts and projecting them 200 years into the future. The other extras are purely for the collectors - but if you'd like to be the envy of your classmates with a Vault-Tec lunchbox, or decorate your cubicle with a Vault-Tec bobblehead, go for it!
Now, the only difference between this edition and the Fallout 3: Amazon.com Exclusive Survival Edition is the Pip-Boy clock. I would NOT recommend buying that package because there are numerous reports of the Pip-Boy clock malfunctioning. I personally haven't had any trouble, but several people have noted the low battery life.
Dial 888-4VAULT-TEC to reserve a spot for your family: operators are standing by!
14 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Fun and GoryNov 04, 2008
By Josh
I just beat Fallout 3 (PS3) in around 20 hours. I did not mean to.
With Oblivion, I could give a damn less about the story. The game was decent enough, but the story was blah blah blah to my ears.
Fallout 3, the story is actually engaging enough that I ended up only wanting to complete the story missions. And in the end, I think I only completed maybe 3 side quests. And as I said, I beat it in roughly 20 hours. Too short, in my humble opinion.
But, that's just the main quest. And I was an evil bastard the entire way. It was fun, but now I'm going to go through and be different, and once I'm out of the vault, I'm putting the main quest on the backburner and doing nothing but side quests. Looking at the strategy guide (after I beat the game), there seem to be just as many if not twice as many side quests as there are main quests.
I finished the game the first time halfway through level 15. I didn't even have all the perks unlocked, and never did find any ammo for a Fat Man, or fight a Super Mutant Behemoth after that initial encounter with the Lyon's.
I don't know why they offer 3rd person perspective: It sucks. The animation is horrible and the over the shoulder type view just did not work for me. Luckily, 1st person view works just fine.
The felt very immersed in the world of post-nuclear war Washington DC.
The graphics, the gore, the sound effects, the story, the gameplay, were all done very well. Though nothing is perfect: there were occasionally NPCs sinking through floors and as I said, the animation is sometimes just stupid and stiff.
Plenty of guns, not a ton of but a good amount of various enemy types, a myriad of quests and character builds will have me playing for months to come.
It's just fun.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Bleak and expansiveNov 25, 2008
By Starstew
Enjoyed it from beginning to end, and beyond. I didn't realize the main storyline was as short as it was, so I was surprised when I finished the game (high karma ending). I've since gone back to an old save and am taking my time exploring the world. I've easily doubled, maybe tripled my play-time by doing more of the side-quests and uncovering new bits of the map.
The environments are bleak, sometimes oppressively so. The world is designed to be a nuclear wasteland, after all. Traversing the landscape feels lonely and dangerous. The world feels huge and it's amazing to see something off in the distance and just be able to walk to it.
This isn't going to be fun for people expecting a precision FPS, but it does scratch some of the shooter itch. Feels a lot like Mass Effect to me, in that regard.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Possibly the best Collector's Edition on the Market.Aug 09, 2010
By L. Soto
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RRFT94J37212M This review is specific to the items within the Fallout 3 Collector's Edition, and not the game itself.
I currently own more than a few Collector's/Special Editions. Some of these Collector's Editions I have reviewed here on Amazon.com and in my personal opinion none has been a better value for the money than the Fallout 3 Collector's Edition. Just about every aspect of this Collector's Edition is of high quality and does not disappoint.
The first thing to mention is the Vault-Tec Lunch Box that holds all the Collector's Edition items. This has to be one of the coolest items included with any Collector's Edition I have seen. Now I realize this not the only game that has had a lunch box as a Collector's item (or even a preorder gift), but this one makes the most sense. I say this because the lunch box is an item you will actually find within the game itself. Personally I always prefer to get or own Collector's items that have some direct connection to the game itself, and this one clearly does. The artwork on the box is also great with some pretty good detail. Just a few words of warning, the lunch box can be damaged easily, especially the paint-job/artwork. A good idea would be to place it in a safe display area to avoid damage to it.
The next item in the Collector's Edition is the Vault Boy Bobblehead. Again this is another great item since throughout your time playing Fallout 3 you will find Vault Boy Bobbleheads that look very similar to this one. The Bobblehead is 5" tall and it has a nice paint-job.
Next up is one of my favorite items within Collector's Editions, the Art Book. This is an excellent Art Book that is only second to the recent BioShock 2 Art Book. The Art of Fallout 3 is broken into 9 chapters: Introduction, Pip-Boy, Costume Design, Creatures, Robots, Weapons, Hardware, The World, and Storyboards. Every chapter of the book contains an introduction by the artists who worked on the game, and the book itself is 96 pages long. I can not express just how well put together this Art Book is, it is easily the best item within this Collector's Edition.
The last item within this set is the Making of Fallout 3 disc. On the PS3 you actually get a Blu-Ray disc with the content all in HD. The main feature on the disk runs for 39 minutes. The disk also contains 2 trailers and 2 art galleries for the game as special features. This making of disk is actually pretty good when compared to most of the other making of features on the market right now, but it still has one problem. Throughout the 39 minute run time of the making of documentary I got the impression the game was being promoted or sold to me. Very rarely did I feel the making of feature was a detailed look at the creation of Fallout 3. Don't get me wrong, the documentary is still worth watching and it is especially nice that for the PS3 it is presented in HD on a Blu-Ray disk. I just personally wish it was a little more detailed and perhaps less promotional in nature.
The Fallout 3 Collector's Edition is an excellent set that is worth everything you pay for it. Even now with the Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition available I would still highly recommend buying this Collector's Edition. Personally, out of all my Collector's Editions this set is easily my favorite.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Breathtaking!Jan 01, 2009
By From Detroit
I was a HUGE fan of the original Fallout game, and when I lost about 4 or 5 months of my life to Morrowind. I'd say that both are ranked among my favorite games of all time. When I found out that Bethesda was making Fallout 3, I new it would be great! I pre-ordered this one (the collector's edition, no less! a very rare thing for me to do!) and I'm really glad I did. Opening it up when it was delivered was about as fun as Christmas was when I was a kid! The lunch box and bobble head doll were a nice touch. But more importantly, the game itself is simply AMAZING! Graphics, sound, story, character interactions... all phenomenal! Anyone who's played Morrowind or Oblivion with a controller will also feel right at home. They did a great job with the real-time combat, as well as the VATS. This is a must have for anyone who likes CRPG's, and possibly fans of FPS (provided they have the patience to play a RPG.)
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