In case you don't remember, 'The Power of the Atom' has you make a stark choice: disarm the nuclear bomb housed within Megaton, or activate it and wipe its citizens off the map. So that was very interesting, and I was a little bit jealous that they were making a first-person, full 3D Fallout and I wasn't the one behind it, at least artistically.' It was the first time I got to play a Fallout RPG that I hadn't been involved in developing. I feel like there needed to be a little more motivation behind why someone wanted to nuke it,' Boyarsky says. Leonard Boyarsky, who helped create the original Fallout, feels like the motivations in the quest could have been stronger.
This quest does have at least one critic though, even if his thoughts are couched in praise for Fallout 3 as a whole.
It's a quest that's invariably cited whenever Fallout 3 comes up in conversation, usually as the clearest cut example of how your personal choices can impact your playthrough. 'The Power of the Atom' might be the most famous RPG quest in history.
