15 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Fallout

3. Fallout 3 Almost Turned Out Completely Different

Van Buren is a name that stirs many emotions in the hardcore Fallout fanbase; it was the codename given to the 'original' Fallout 3 that would've been developed by Black Isle Studios in the early part of the millennium. Black Isle's take on the series would have been closer to how their parent company Interplay Entertainment built the game. Plans were for the game to be top-down with the focus on turn-taking combat and character creation. Your player would've started life in a prison for unknown reasons before being thrust into a conflict in Utah, Colorado and Nevada. Many fans ask "what if" when it comes to Van Buren because as loved as Fallout 3 is, Black Isle Studios had some fun ideas and it'd be a fun play, even (and especially) today.