I've uploaded the Fallout tactics: Brotherhood of Steel demo for you all to play around with, at 120mb this is somthing you want to download with style. Fallout Tactics is a squad based, third person combat game with RPG character development and a mission based story line. With nice graphics and a pretty funky interface its a great game for cruising the hours on your christmas holidays. Here is the story:

Join the Brotherhood of Steel, a technological revival group dedicated to restoring the world to its former prosperity through science and whatever means necessary. Take part in a quest to reawaken long-dormant technology in order to defeat a powerful enemy in the one of a kind Fallout Universe. Each mission involves various hostile obstacles that must be overcome using tactical skirmish warfare. The player controls up to six detailed characters in the single player mission-based campaign or they may use their chosen squad online in multiplayer battles. Squad-members improve with experience, increasing their skills and earning perks. Many varieties of weapons, from handguns to rocket launchers, allow the player to lay waste to his enemies. In addition, the fighting isn't limited to pedestrians, as squad-members may take the action to the streets with armed vehicles.

If you have ever played the origional fallout you're sure to want this, though if you have played alot of fallout and want to know why this is so different here is what the developers have to say on the matter:

1. We at Microforte are BIG fans of the original Fallout Games. Unfortunately (maybe fortunately) we were not given the license to do Fallout 3. The game we were given to do is "A Squad Based Tactical Game which captures the feel of the original Fallout games and is set in the Fallout Universe and includes a strong multi-player game."

2. This is a fairly early version of the game you guys are playing and a lot of the polish is missing. Lots of features are still missing. Action point cost for movement in TB will be in the final game (there will be a little number just like in the original Fallout). The AI needs tweaking and optimizing. Cursors may get changed, T.B needs some work.

3. Yes, shock horror, CTB was developed to make multi-player usable as, yet again our brief was "a strong multi-player game" and as one correspondent has pointed out TB with 6 squads and 6 characters in each squad would suck somewhat (although you will have the chance to try it cause the TB is still in.)

4. TB is still in! Jesus how many more times. Maybe it is a bit broken at the moment, I don't play it as much as I should, but I will and I pledge that by the time we have finished it will be as good in the final game as it was in Fallout. Again guys this is a demo of a game in a fairly early state of Alpha. Turn based is actually easier to do than real-time and we will get it right but, yes, our emphasis has been on getting CTB right so that we can ship the multi-player demo next month in a playable state.

5. Interplay have asked for a pause mode for CTB (similar to BG) and although I am not in favor of this it is obvious that most people want one so we will put it in for the final game. It will mean that you can stop the game and micro-manage your squad if you feel it's getting out of hand.

6. There are a lot of new things here which were not in the original Fallout. And unfortunately you can't take an existing game and just add new stuff into it without something being dropped. You have not even seen vehicles yet. In the final game you have a world map, random encounters and loads of other things. It's a very interesting game and just as in the original Fallouts (which again I loved) there are many different ways of doing the missions.

Finally let me assure you all that you comments are being noted and changes to the game will be made dependant on how practical they are. But no we will not be dropping CTB to concentrate on TB (or visa versa).

Check out the offical Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of steel Website. If you want to read more on the demo check out this IGN demo review.

Download the demo

And I claim the first post. wheeee.

Game sounds good, will download.

i was thinking of going for 1st post but i thought screw it :)

third post?
MEH

dirty news stealing term! ;)

Fight! Fight! Fight! No news on Fallout 3 yet is there?