10 Cut Fallout Enemies Designed To Give You Nightmares

Floaters were prevalent in Fallouts 1 and 2. These long tailed creatures were, like Super Mutants and Centaurs, a creation of the Master during his experiments with the Forced Evolutionary Virus. Floaters were, as their name indicates, able to hover due to their gas-filled bodies, attacking with a long tentacle that shot from their mouths.

Floaters were meant to appear in both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. Given the design and animation time for a more complicated enemy than one which simply runs at you, the creatures were cut from both games. We did, however, get a look in concept art what the Fallout 3 versions would have been like, and they are horrifying.

The FO 3 floaters were all based on various types of mutated aquatic creatures: a lamprey eel, a manowar jellyfish, and a needle toothed fish (for example, a gar) with spidery legs. Seeing the original floaters in small, 2D sprites was one thing; the thought of these creatures laid out in glorious 3D is quite another.

It's a toss-up between the lamprey and the manowar as to which is worse. The manowar sports one large, bloodshot eye on top of numerous tentacles; the lamprey has one eye as well, but most of its body is a massive mouth with huge teeth that hook inwards.

Neither would make for a fun first day out of the Vault.