Fallout Van Buren (Unreleased 2000s Fallout 3 Prototype/Fallout Game)

Fallout Van Buren, also known as Fallout 3, was an RPG created by Black Isle Studios, the original creators of the Fallout series (aside from parts of Fallout and all of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas). The original version was going to be an MMO, however this idea was dropped. The newer version was a bit like its predecessors and carried on the original Fallout legacy.

Black Isle Studios soon started going over some bumps along the way and eventually had to sell the entire franchise, which was bought by Bethesda Softworks, creator the Elder Scrolls games. Bethesda was very fast to drop the original design and converted it into a FPS/TPS RPG. The plot of the story was no where to be found in Fallout 3, and Van Buren was thought to be gone without a trace. However, in 2007 the prototype was leaked onto the internet. This would be the most we'd see of Van Buren for a long time.

In 2010, Bethesda Game Studios and Obsidian Entertainment (which was composed of a few old employees from Black Isle Studios) created Fallout: New Vegas. This new entry in the Fallout series took a great number of things out of Van Buren, such as the NCR and Hoover Dam, as well as references, such as in front of the Mojave Outpost, a statue of a Brotherhood of Steel member shaking hands with an NCR member. This was created because in Van Buren, instead of a war between the NCR, Great Kahns, and Caeser's Legion, it was the NCR against the Brotherhood of Steel.