Fallout: Van Buren — The Canceled Original Fallout 3 That Publisher Ignored
The article discusses the canceled Fallout: Van Buren project, which was Interplay and Black Isle Studios' original vision for Fallout 3 before the studio's financial troubles led to its cancellation. The project began around 2003 but was shut down within months as staff left and the studio collapsed. The article suggests the cancellation was partly due to the publisher not taking the time to properly review or engage with the project. Bethesda later acquired the Fallout IP and released their own version of Fallout 3.
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Van Buren was kicked into gear around 2003, but within months, things turned awry, folks were leaving Interplay and Black Isle (the development studio), and by the end of the year, Van Buren was slashed.
What is sometimes referred to as the 'real' Fallout 3 is a canceled project from many moons ago called Fallout: Van Buren, which Interplay was working on before the studio was forced to shut down.
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