Bethesda Softworks has confirmed that its upcoming Role Playing Game (RPG) Fallout 3 will receive a simultaneous release on multiple home consoles and PC later this year.

Speaking to videogaming247, Todd Howard, Executive Producer on the forthcoming post-apocalyptic title, said that all three versions of the game “should all be the same date…that's our plan."

The company’s previous multiplatform release, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, saw the game arrive on Xbox 360 and PC a full 12 months ahead of it’s PlayStation 3 counterpart.

Howard added: "I like to think of RPGs as the best genre-blenders, in that you can do anything in them. No type of interaction is off limits and you can have action parts, puzzle solving parts, or anything else.”

"When you're making a shooter, you never ask 'can the player get married and have kids?' When you're making an RPG, that type of thinking goes on all the time, so while it may look like a shooter, I think that dramatically undersells what the game does."

He also cited various influences that the team has taken on throughout the game’s lengthy development cycle, commenting, "The Road is fantastic and came out in the middle of our design phase, so it became required reading for many of us.”

"We looked at many post nuclear movies, some very disturbing, things that deal with Hiroshima and such, and it gave us a good look at that type of nuclear destruction. Other general ones we looked at were things dealing with survival or how people deal with the effects of any war or rebuilding."

Fallout 3 is currently scheduled for release in the third quarter of 2008.

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