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I suppose, but for me that doesn't really lie in the mechanics. If it "feels" Fallout, it's Fallout. Perhaps, but I still don't know how skills, SPECIAL et al affect gameplay, so I can't judge if the basic mechanics have changed "too much" or not.

I suppose the same reason why I think Neverwinter Nights 2 is a sequel. About the only real similarities it had with the original were that they took place in a similar geographical location (the Sword Coast). Different technology, different rules (DnD 3.5 vs. DnD 3), different characters...

I disagree with the point that it shouldn't be called Fallout 3, treated only as a spinoff. It's certainly quite different from its predecessors but being different isn't really some kind of restriction on it being a sequel. It may not deal directly with the events of the first two, but to me...