Feargus Urquhart Interview at HLF
Posted Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 19:43 CET by Mollusken

HomeLan Fed have interviewed Feargus Urquhart, chief of Black Isle Studios. Here's a couple of the questions:

You recently announced that you want to get Fallout 3 under development at some point. Have you thought at all about what the general gameplay design will be like for the sequel?

That's a tough question to answer without having a horde of screaming people at my door asking for my head. :) However, I can say what I've been saying for a while, which is that Fallout 3 will still feel and play a lot like the previous Fallouts. It will need to be a more modern game though in relation to how the game plays and the graphics engine involved. What I mean by that is that we will be using a 3D engine and there will most likely be a real-time combat mode. I know there are people out there that feel this ruins Fallout, but I think they will be surprised as to how well it works once they play it.

What do you think people will be most surprised with the gameplay of Lionheart?

Feargus Urquhart - I think they will be surprised with how the action aspects of the game and how the RPG system used in Fallout works well in the game. While many people often say that they don't like action RPG's because of what they have played before, I really feel that fans of our previous games will be surprised to find that they enjoy Lionheart just as much even though it is faster paced.