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  • Executive Meddling: Interplay forced the developers to include a real-time combat system and cooperative multiplayer, the latter of which significantly increased the development time.
  • Screwed by the Network: The game likely would have been officially released as Fallout 3note  had it not been for Fallout: Brotherhood of SteelInterplay took such a liking to that game (due to the commercial success of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, whom Brotherhood of Steel is a reskin of) that they delayed Van Buren in favor of making that game. Eventually, they would not only outright cancel Van Buren (which according to Word of Dante, was due to budget constraints and a lost of faith on CRPGs due to the popularity of consoles at the time), but also deciding to make a second Brotherhood of Steel game. BoS ended up selling very poorly and due to financial difficulties, Interplay sold off the franchise to Bethesda shortly thereafter.
  • What Could Have Been: Leaked design documents, screenshots, videos, and playable demos indicate that Van Buren would have probably been really, really good if it was ever actually released, which is, of course, never going to happen. Although many elements planned for this game were later used in Fallout: New Vegas and its DLC's, granting some vindication to the project, many ideas planned didn't transition to New Vegas, leaving them as potential ideas that never saw the light of day,

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