I have here the intro to Fallout 3 - The words that Ron Perlman says. I haven't seen it posted anywhere else, but this is taken from Atomic Magazine in Australia (I'll try and post up the scans later on).
The article is actually quite interesting/good, though having a few flaws. Soon as I find a scanner, I'll put em up.
War. War never changes. Since the damn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.
In the year 2077, after millennia of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation. But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world - but war, war never changes.
In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, known as vaults. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wasted to greet them - all except those in Vault 101. For on the fateful day, when fire rained from the sky, the giant steel door of Vault 101 slid closed... and never reopened. It was here you were born. It is here you will die because, in Vault 101, no one ever enters and no one ever leaves
The article is actually quite interesting/good, though having a few flaws. Soon as I find a scanner, I'll put em up.