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A demo of the highly anticipated Fallout 3 has been shadowed under a pesky cloud of doubt today, according to the latest ramblings from developer Bethesda.

 “For a game like Fallout (or Oblivion), there's a lot of details that have to go into it since the game plays as a sandbox... where do you cut the user off”, commented Bethesda Community Manager, Matt Grandstaff, in a post on the company’s official message board.

“You might bring up that we have a playable demo that we've shown at events, but from the previews you read, you'll notice that the G.O.A.T exam is never taken, we never decided to save Megaton instead of blowing it up, and so on. Part of the reason for this is that for the purpose of showing the game, they didn't need to flesh out those details.”

While neglecting to confirm or deny a possible demo, Grandstaff did seem to hint that the developer would rather pool its efforts into the final version, rather than set aside time to work on demo release:

“If we were doing a demo, there'd be a lot of time spent on deciding where a user could go, what quests to include, etc”, he stated

“For Fallout 3, we'd rather commit the time that can be used for delivering a demo into spending more time working on the final product.”

Fallout 3 is scheduled for release on PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360 in Q4 2008.