Portal:Fallout 3

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Fallout 3 is a post-apocalyptic computer and console role-playing game that has been developed and published by Bethesda Softworks as a sequel to Interplay's Fallout and Fallout 2. The game takes place in the year 2277 on the East Coast of what used to be the United States of America, mostly in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia.

For more Fallout 3 info, see our Fallout 3 FAQ. For general information about the Fallout series of games, see: Fallout series. For information about the game's setting, see: Fallout world.

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"Don't feed them"

The Yao Guai are a species of mutant bears and are some of the strongest, fastest, deadliest creatures you can expect.

In Chinese, Yao Guai (妖怪) simply means "monster". In mythology, they are physical incarnations of the spirits of mistreated animals, or fallen divine animals. There is evidence that there were Chinese soldiers who actually made it to the American mainland during the Great War (for example, the different Chinese weapons available in the game, the remains of Chinese soldiers, the Chinese Remnant in Mama Dolce's and the Chengs living in Tenpenny Tower), so it is possible that its Chinese name comes from this influence.

Great War

The Fallout world is not quite our own. Somewhere along the way, it diverged. It's still recognizably our world, but with some changes. The Fallout world is historically divergent from ours and also is fundamentally different in terms of how science works. The base concept for the setting is the World of Tomorrow (as imagined in the Golden Age of Science Fiction), after the bomb. This means that before the war, the Fallout world was more or less what the people of the 1940s and 1950s thought things would be like in 2077. (see: Divergence for more details).

The most important event in the Fallout setting was the Great War which happened on October 23, 2077. It lasted a mere two hours, but was unbelievably destructive. More energy was released in the early moments of that war than all previous conflicts combined.

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