If you have a Playstation 3, then you probably know about the mandatory installs that many Playstation 3 games need to go through in order to play them. Games such as Capcom’s Devil May Cry 4, Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV and the recently launched HAZE, all required between 5 to 10 minutes installs onto the Playstation 3 hard disk drive taking up to 4GB of space. As part of our Fallout 3 blowout, TheGameReviews.com was able to spend some time with the latest build of Fallout 3 and have two Bethesda Software employees walk us through and answer our questions regarding Fallout 3.

While being shown the Fallout 3 universe, TheGameReviews.com asked whether or not Fallout 3 would require a Mandatory Install for the Playstation 3. Bethesda responded:

“We do not do that, no. We do the put you know, put the stuff down there that we need to be there, we can stream it on in and out of there but we do not do the ‘we need ten minutes of your time.’” They went on to explain, “We will cache the same way on both (Xbox 360 and PS3) we basically just like everybody you know if you have a hard drive, it does this.” Much like how they did Oblivion.

At least Playstation 3 owners won’t have to worry about clearing space on the HDD in order to play this much anticipated release. If you’re a big Fallout fan, be sure to check back to TheGameReviews.com, as we have much more Fallout information, as well as our preview coming very soon.