Fallout 3 intro

The cinematic teaser trailer for Fallout 3 was released by Bethesda Softworks on June 5, 2007, after a 30 day countdown on the Fallout 3 website. During the countdown, a new piece of concept art by Craig Mullins was revealed on every Tuesday.

While it features no gameplay footage, it was created in-engine (done with game assets in Bethesda's rendering engine), but isn't done real-time.

The movie starts in a wreck of a bus, with a Radiation King radio playing the song I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire sung by The Ink Spots. Inside the bus, various familiar items from Fallout and Fallout 2 can be seen, including a Rot Gut bottle, a Super Tool Kit and Nuka Cola bottles. Above the bus windows, there are posters encouraging people to enlist with the Armored Infantry and to buy a place in a Vault (featuring the Vault Boy). The camera then moves outside the bus, showing a ruined city some art deco architecture and a Corvega ad, and finally, a man in a Power Armor (a model slightly different from, but similar to the T-51b) with an unknown gun and a Brotherhood of Steel symbol on his breastplate.

As the screen fades to black, we hear Ron Perlman say War. War never changes. The text "Fallout 3" appears and changes into "Fall 2008".