Fallout 3 - News Roundup, Achievements

Here's a handful of new Fallout 3 items. First, German site GameRadio.de has a transcript of a recent audio interview with Pete Hines:

GameRadio.de: Are you planning to use more voice actors than in Oblivion?

Pete Hines: A lot more voice actors. And a lot more variations. You should find as you are walking around and talking to people, that you’ll be constantly hearing new and different voices and not the same person over and over. Apart of that is because of that we have a lot fewer people in the world. In “Oblivion” you’ve got several thousand. Its impossible to try and give all of them a voice, but in “Fallout” we’ve got this destroyed world and humanity is struggling to survive and there is far fewer people. So it’s much easier to give them a lot more variations. So yes, we have a lot more voice actors, a lot more variations and voices for sure.

Updated impressions at VoodooExtreme from PAX:

Instead of going up the hill after entering the wastelands, I went down towards D.C. Instead. Todd and Emil were on-hand giving me tips as I went along. One of the major features that I didn't use too much the first time I played was the VATS system. The concept of pausing combat, aiming at specific body parts, and queuing up attacks doesn't come naturally to me. I'm glad I did though, as it was really cool.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun has some top-of-the-head thoughts from watching the five videos released for PAX.  Alec Meer didn't like Mr Burke in Megaton:

Naughty swears! We’re not in Cyrodiil any more, Toto.
Voice acting seems less grating than Oblivion. I have a suspicion the second speaking character in this bit is the guy who did Brother bloody Jauffre, but I’m not sure. Doesn’t sound as moronic, anyway.
The Inkspots are awesome.
“I represent certain… interests” is not a subtle thing to say, Mr. Burke. Neither is “all it needs is a little… motivation.” STOP IT WITH THE STUPID CARTOON VILLAIN PAUSES/DOUBLE-ENTENDRES. This character’s acting is… rubbish, and some of the writing is a little… worrying. Too early to… judge, of course.
Some potentially fun moralising though - a certain Vampire Bloodlines vibe.

...and Worthplaying has a list of the 50 Achievements on offer for X360 players.