Bethesda Talks Kids in Fallout 3



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Bethesda has explained its decision to prevent the player from attacking children in Fallout 3.

In an article written for Edge Online, Bethesda's Emil Pagliarulo discusses how the development team addressed the issue. "This is a series that in previous installments allowed players to kill children, right?" he asks. "When Bethesda first started developing Fallout 3, we had early conversations about whether you’re going to be able to blow the kids’ heads off . (Let’s be clear, with the ESRB’s rating system, that’s not something that would fly anyway.)"

"But then we began to think, really what benefit would there be in killing the kids in the game? It just seems gratuitous, unnecessary and cruel," he added. "You really have to balance out and consider if doing violence to achild in a game is so important to your story that it outweighs anykind of social responsibility you might have."

Fallout 3 is released for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on Friday. Check out our review here.