Fallout 3 - Interview @ GameShark

Gavin Carter answers some questions for a new GameShark interview on Fallout 3:

Relative to Oblivion, how big is the game world? If it's significantly larger or smaller, what advantages does this change in scope lend to the game?

This question is always a tough one to answer, since so many things go into a game world’s size. The basic answer is that it’s a bit smaller. We recently went through and added some more land area to it to make sure it had that wide-open Wasteland feel. But like Oblivion, Fallout 3 will also have hundreds of interior spaces to explore, as well as some special areas that are cordoned off of the main game world, but still huge in their own right. We do have a smaller number of NPCs in the game world, because we want to concentrate on fleshing out as many characters as deeply as possible.