The game was released worldwide in October 2008 .
The game was released worldwide in October 2008 for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 3 , and Xbox 360.Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277 , 116 years after the setting of Fallout , 36 years after the setting of Fallout 2 and 200 years after the nuclear apocalypse that devastated the game 's world , in a future where international conflicts between the United States and China culminated in a Sino-American war in 2077 , due to the scarcity of petroleum reserves that ran the economies of both countries .
Fallout 3