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Fallout 3 nearly didn't have VATS

Fallout started in 1997 as an isometric, turn-based game, in which the Wanderer would patiently wait for big rats and radscorpions to swipe at their feet, before returning fire with a couple of 9mm ...
GamesRadar+

Fallout 3's VATS system helped compensate for Bethesda's lack of shooting chops: "We were never going to create gun combat that was on par with Call of Duty or Battlefield"

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Game Rant

Fallout's Most Iconic Gameplay Mechanic Almost Didn't Make It

Aaron McKinley is a writer, blogger, and video game enthusiast with over six years of experience in web content and many more in playing games until the wee hours of the morning. A passion for writing ...
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Bethesda made Fallout 3's VATS system to avoid competing with Call of Duty and Battlefield, taking influence from KOTOR and Burnout: "Imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs ...

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Polygon

After a decade, Fallout 4's busted VATS system is getting fixed

Tell me if this has happened to you. You're playing Fallout 4. There's an enemy, let's say, a super Mutant. You press the button that slows the game down, so that you can shoot directly at its head — ...
PC Gamer

The Fallout VATS system was inspired by Burnout's crash mode of all things or, as Todd Howard puts it, 'imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!'

Fallout Fallout 3 lead Emil Pagliarulo tried to stuff it to the gills with Deus Ex DNA: 'As much immersive sim as was humanly possible' Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders design director says players ...