Fallout MMO Hires Chris Taylor (Not That One)

Well, we're all presuming the reborn Interplay's secret project is a Fallout MMO, as there's plenty of proof out there and nobody's denied it yet.

Yesterday the new Interplay website opened up, and with it came a mention of “Project V13,” the working title for a 'next generation' MMO. No details whatsoever on that, but what is scintillating is the announcement that they've hired Chris Taylor to work on it. Not Gas-Powered Games' Chris Taylor - who perhaps shouldn't be allowed near any kind of roleplaying game again after the disappointing mess that was Space Siege - but the other Chris Taylor, a key member of the original Fallout/Fallout 2 team.

Since 2005, he's been running Zeroradius Games with two other ex-Fallouteers, which has come up with a whole bunch of high-concept board and card games. So his return to videogaming - and very probably Fallout - is thus a big bloody deal. It's also a hope that the Fallout MMO will be more like the Fallouts of yore, and less like Bethesda's more FPSy, ultra-brown affair.

Official statement below

The company also announced that Chris Taylor, a game designer who was a part of the original Fallout game development team at Interplay in 1994, has rejoined the company. Taylor will serve as Lead System Designer for “Project V13,” the working title of Interplay’s next generation Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMO) currently in development. Taylor joins other original Fallout team members on staff at Interplay’s internal game studio, which recently opened an office in Irvine, Calif. Additional development staff members continue to be hired as the project ramps-up.