Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and the third major installment in the Fallout series. The player character is an inhabitant of Vault 101, a survival shelter designed to protect up to 1,000 humans from the nuclear fallout. When the player character's father disappears under mysterious circumstances, the player is forced to escape from the Vault and journey into the ruins of Washington D.C. to track him down. Along the way the player is assisted by a number of human survivors and must battle a myriad of enemies that inhabit the area now known as the "Capital Wasteland". The game has an attribute and combat system typical of an action strategy game but also incorporates elements of survival horror games. This staggeringly complete guide is 752 pages stuffed with all the information you'll need to survive and thrive in Fallout 3.
