Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game takes place within Fallout's usual setting of a world that deviated into an alternate timeline. Thanks to atomic age technology, which eventually led to its devastation by a nuclear apocalypse in the year 2077 referred to as The Great War. The main story takes place in the year 2277, around 36 years after the events of Fallout 2. Players take control of an inhabitant of Vault 101, one of several underground shelters created before the Great War to protect around 1,000 humans from the nuclear fallout, who is forced to venture out into the Capital Wasteland to find their father after he disappears from the vault under mysterious circumstances. They eventually find themselves seeking to complete their father's work while fighting against the Enclave, the corrupt remnants of the former U.S. government that seeks to use it for their own purposes.

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