Now that Ubisoft has confirmed its Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remaster is real, the “just announce it already” spotlight has fallen firmly on the heavily rumored Fallout 3 remaster. Bethesda continues to refuse to acknowledge whether it exists despite rampant leaks and rumors, the latest of which comes in the form of an action figure listing and might be the most concrete evidence we’ve seen so far.
A List Of Action Figure Pre-Orders Mentions A Toy Connected To The Fallout 3 Remaster
A long list of upcoming action figures from McFarlane Toys has been added to Bro Depot, an online store that specializes in action figure pre-orders. While most of the new figures mentioned are from the DC Universe, with a Helldiver thrown in there for good measure, as highlighted by Toy News International, one of the action figures is based on the T-45 power armor introduced in the original Fallout 3, which has appeared in other games since.
It’s the elite edition seven-inch action figure getting a Fallout 3 Remastered label that has got tongues wagging, of course, since that game doesn’t exist, at least not officially. The listing not only suggests that the remaster is real, but that if a store is about to open pre-orders for an action figure based on something from it, the polished version of Fallout 3 must be pretty much ready to go.
The Nuka-Cola note of it all does mean there’s an outside chance that this is all one big misunderstanding. A Nuka-Cola power armor action figure was shown off during last month’s New York Toy Fair. However, that model was based on the T-60 power armor. To get the power armor model wrong, and to label the action figure as one based on something from an entirely different game, seems like even more of a reach than assuming the Fallout 3 remaster is real.
Don’t Give Me Hope
We have been given false hope before in what feels like this eternal wait for something new from the Fallout series, even if that something new is just a remaster of a game we’ve played before. The first big red herring was a countdown clock many of us assumed would end with a big reveal. Instead, when the clock hit zero, we were just treated to a virtual tour of the inside of a vault from Amazon’s Fallout TV show.
Don’t Worry, Fallout 3 Remaster Is Reportedly Still In “Active Development”
Fallout 3 Remastered may not have been announced after Season 2 of the Prime Video show, but it’s still reportedly in development.
Shortly after that, Iron Galaxy got us all excited by posting a “Please Stand By” image on LinkedIn that appeared to be teasing a Fallout announcement of some kind. Having worked with Bethesda in the past, Fallout fans assumed the studio might have been working on a remaster. Turns out it wasn’t, and the image wasn’t teasing anything at all.
Despite all of the false starts and dead ends, it does seem almost certain that we’re getting something. The action figure listing further implies that, and hopefully we’ll get confirmation that a Fallout 3 remaster is real before its ship springs even more leaks.
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October 28, 2008
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
- Developer(s)
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Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher(s)
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Bethesda Softworks
- Engine
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Gamebryo
