The preview was definitely biased but it was done so in a polite manner. If you are going to make a game with the name Fallout on the box people are going to expect a Fallout game. Plain and simple. That is just the way it is, Mkreku. People are going to judge its worth as a Fallout game, for better or ill. If you can't get that through your skull then the deficiency is yours, not the previewer or the reviewer, Mkreku.
If Pete Hines and crew didn't see how this was going to end up that is also a deficiency on Bethesda. None and SuaSide (msp?) were very polite and made clear points on what they consider strengths and weaknesses of Fallout 3. In fact I think both previewers did a very professional job writing the preview up and overall reflects well on both Bethesda and NMA.
After all, Bethesda has to think thier game is shaping up nicely if they are letting NMA get a crack at it.