'It really had to do with how all the weapons and armour worked.
'Originally we had this idea where the player would be able to choose between three races: human, ghoul and super mutant,' he said. Did you know Obsidian originally wanted three playable races in Fallout: New Vegas? This is the part literally crossed out - struck through and coloured red - on the Fallout 3.5 treatment Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart showed me at the studio.