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- Fight for survival against terrors of the outside world, radiation, and mutants after nuclear fallout
- Latest in human ability simulation affords unlimited customization of characters
- Expansive world in modern super-deluxe HD graphics
- Features ability to pause time in combat, target specific body parts, and queue up attacks
- 1st- or 3rd-person perspective
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"pretty awesome, but...", First off, I am a huge fan of the first two games in the Fallout series, so I have to try really hard not to be too critical about this game. Fortunately it was so good that I can comfortably give it 4 stars. It is really fun, beautiful, and the VATS system is great. The main story line is in my opinion pretty pathetic, so in that sense it fails, but there are countless hours of fun side quests and exploring, so i didnt really even bother with the story line until i hit about 50 hours of gameplay. The over all mood and humor of the original 2 fallouts arent really achieved, it feels more forced in F3. If you want to know what Fallout is actually like, go play the originals, but despite all that, Fallout 3 is still a great game worth playing because it is really fun.
"Fallout 3 = Oblivion", Fallout 3 is a great game. Looks a lot like the previous Fallout games except created by Bethesda instead of Black Isle. However, it only earns 4 stars from me.
4 years of making is a long time but Bethesda forgot 1 little detail. Their design artists, story tellers, QA, and programmers really invested a lot of time and talents into this game. I like 99% of this game, but the 1% that I don't like is how the NPCs move exactly the same like NPCs in Oblivion. One little example, look how NPC for both Fallout 3 and Oblivion gets up from bed. Other than different scenaries, stories, and weapons, I was expecting the NPC reacts differently. The 3D lighting and other graphic stuff are no different too. So basically not much different compared to Oblivion.
However, if you never played Oblivion, just disregard my review. Fallout 3 will steal your time from your family and daily routine. Guaranteed you will experience sleeping deprivation and solitary feelings from member of friends and families.
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"Beta quality at final release", The game would be fantastic, if only Bethesda had waited to release the game until it was ready.
The graphics are great, gameplay is amazing, and it's the most fun ps3 game I own, at least up until playing one of the main quest missions and the game freezing, locking me in a basement and cannot get out.
This was not the first glitch I encountered, yet it's the first I can't work around. I couldn't take the test at the start of the game, a couple freezes but I always found a way around. This time I have no outside saves and the game will not let me continue without crashing the PS3.
Bethesda says it's a known issue, yet they have no timetable for a patch and I'm not hopeful. If you don't believe me google Jefferson Memorial glitch, I'm not the only one.
Release a market ready product and this is a 5 star game, but as it is I can't even get half way through the main quest. This should be a beta and Bethesda has some work before it SHOULD be market ready...
"Game of the Year", I have had Fallout 3 for a few weeks now and have to say that while it has some departures from the series it is an amazing game. I started out wanting to follow the main story but ended up being pulled into the world and wandering. The game world is huge with countless locations to explore and hundreds of random missions to perform. This is a must own for any RPG fan and almost any real gamer.
"Deep story and fun.", I bought this one with other 4 games, (including elder scrolls IV Oblivion), the menu scheme is very similar to Obvivion, the big difference is that Fallout doesn't have magic. So its probably more skilled oriented, it isn't easy first but its easy to learn all the things you can customize and do in this game. Non linear doesn't means you can do whatever you want, since you need some kind of item or weapon or skill to do certain quest.
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"Dark, humorous, some innovation", I wouldn't call myself 'a gamer' but it just happens that I played the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition last year and I enjoyed it immensely. Once there was little left to explore in the world of Cyrodiil and the Shivering Isles got fully mapped and pacified the wait began for Fallout 3. I am still hoping for a 'Scrolls of the Elders V' installment some day but, Fallout was what was in the pipeline so all I could do was hope for something wonderful to come out from the geniuses at Bethesda. I will first list my impressions of the game, so far.
The game engine: ----------------- Technically, Fallout 3 inherits a lot from Oblivion. Sure, the landscape is very different but you can do in Fallout just about the kind of things that you could do in Oblivion: walk, run, be stealthy, pick up things, drop them, throw missiles, engage in hand to hand combat, have conversations with the inhabitants and pick up your replies from a a list of possible answers, use potions to heal, be nice to other people and trade or make friends or be nasty and steal and so on. Like in Oblivion, you can fast-travel to locations you've discovered for as long as enemies aren't too close, you can sleep in a bed to regain your strength and heal you wounds, you can get sick and your sickness can be cured. Like in Oblivion, the game can be a series of quests or you can walk the land and live off the land if you don't feel like doing what others ask you to do. You develop certain skills but the skills engine is a bit different - you can pick the skills you wish to develop as you level up and, unlike Oblivion, you won't become a better athlete if you keep jumping up and down one thousand times.
New in Fallout is the V.A.T.S. system that allows you to stop time and pick up specific body parts to hit when in combat. It's not so bad and, from time to time, you get to see pretty good slow-motion shots of your enemy's head exploding, jets of dark blood coming out of his neck. It's fun and it's preferable to real time shooting when you're a little short on ammo.
The Pip-Boy device is nice but it's just a streamlined version of any RPG's status/inventory facility. It does allow you to listen to the radio but, after a little playing with the radio on, I learned that listening to the radio while on a mission can be VERY dangerous to your character's health as you can't hear the bad guys approaching and they CAN hear you, loud and clear, from quite a distance.
Building your character: ----------------- Also like in Oblivion, your past actions have future consequences and this begins shortly after your 'birth'. You have the ability to design your good looks, move 'points' around to enhance or diminish certain attributes, pick 'perks' and distribute experience points as you level up. Again, like in Oblivion, your skills can be enhanced by reading 'skills books' and you can be trained if you find someone willing to do it.
The story line: ----------------- It's quite simple and it's basically 'find your daddy', following some disturbance inside the completely insulated 'vault' where you spent your entire life up to that point. Your father breaks out and your first quest is for you to escape as well and then try to figure out the world outside. Well... it's not exactly pretty. A couple hundred years post nuclear Armageddon, people in the Washington, D.C. area struggle to survive and stay away from mutants, bandits, crazies or political opportunists. The only way to gather information about your father is to do others small favors in exchange for information and you need to keep yourself healthy, fit and well-armed while at it. You fight the bad guys and, depending on what you want your character to be like, you could do bad things to the 'good' people too but, remember, there's a price to pay for everything.
The art: ----------------- The word is a dull-brown-gray, slightly cartoonish version of post-nuclear D.C. You will recognize some of the 'old' buildings: the Capitol, the Washington Monument, the Air and Space Museum. You will encounter quite a variety of human characters and, up to this point, I've been interacting with a relatively large number of 'monsters', ranging from two-headed cows and fire-spewing ants to giant and relatively hard to kill mutants.
The acting: ----------------- The voices are good but, of course, this is a game and all spoken dialog is pre-recorded and, pretty soon, you will notice that characters will keep saying the same thing, over and over. Their closeup shots of their faces are not as bad as what you had in Oblivion but, let's say that there is some room for improvement in this area. The pre-release word was that the Fallout characters were a lot more intelligent than Oblivion's. Maybe they are but most characters' phrases portfolio is not that vast and you can have encounters where one grateful character stops you to offer you profuse thanks and some small token of appreciation for what you've done and, 5 seconds after she says goodbye, if you try to talk to her again all you get is a 'leave me alone' or 'get lost' reply.
The several milestone encounters - with the head of the 'family', with Three Dog, with Dr. Lee are quite well acted.
The monsters you fight are more intelligent than Oblivion's. The more humanoid ones are capable of attacking, retreating when wounded (only to come back at you later), working together toward your defeat.
The bugs: ----------------- And, not, I'm not talking about the fire ants. There are a few. There is the much-discussed G.O.A.T. exam glitch where you end up waiting forever for the examiner to hand you the exam papers - and I had to restart the game because of that. Then, on a couple of occasions, I found myself trapped and unable to move (load a previous save) or, after sitting on a bench, the world around turned very, very strange and the 'reload' was the only way out of that, I've met an invisible trader that I could hear but he wasn't anywhere around but, somehow, I was able to pass through his beast of burden. All minor bugs, except for the G.O.A.T. glitch.
Game's complexity: ----------------- I can see how not everyone will agree but I found Oblivion a much more complex world. There are more attributes to tweak in Oblivion, you can pick from several races, join guilds, train and develop many skills, explore dozens of dungeons, forts, ruins, visit many villages, towns and cities, interact with more characters, operate on several realms but maybe, after only 20 hours or so of Fallout (level 7) I've only scratched the surface and, if that's the case, I will come back to this review and correct it.
The humor: ----------------- There's as lot of it in Fallout. A lot of it is visual, three Stooges-like where you slap your enemies around and see their body parts flying. There is also some very subtle and not so subtle political humor, which I found very fascinating and quite refreshing. And, of course, it's the way characters seem to relate and react to their sordid physical surroundings which could seem 'funny' to us, since we are not 7th or 8th generation inhabitants of the post-nuclear wastelands.
Overall impression and rating: ----------------- I like playing Fallout but mostly because Elders Scrolls V doesn't exist. It's a good, solid game with some improvements over Oblivion but, as far as I can see, lacking a lot of innovation. It's like the big automakers developing a standard chassis and then building all kinds of different models on it. Oblivion and Fallout are both built on the same chassis and it shows - the colors and the shapes may be different and there may be different options but, basically, deep down, they are family.
Compared to Oblivion, Fallout's, positive improvements are its voice acting, there's more humor, the V.A.T.S. system is a new innovation. On the lacking side, the Oblivion is a vast, colorful, hugely complex world compared to which Fallout's feels almost claustrophobic.
I am giving Fallout 3 a 4-star rating (it's really 3.5 rounded up) and I would recommend it as a 'buy' for giving us an interesting story told with more or less the same old tools when, one assumes, much better ones could have been developed.
"Definition of Open-ended gaming but not for casual gamers", These days, I'm a casual gamer at best but I still came away impressed by this highly ambitious effort by the programmers at Bethesa software. The game world is huge and the way the game unfolds is wonderfully done but unfortunately the post-apocalyptic storyline require that the world is relatively uninhabited and sometimes annoyingly sparse.
This is definitely not the typical RPG game that I've grown accustomed to where there are clear roads leading from one town to another (as long as you stay on the roads, you don't get attacked) and plenty of Quest Givers at each corner. This is fine if you're a methodical gamer and really want to immerse yourself in this world but be warned if you're an casual or ADD gamer looking for some quick and brainless fun.
"Amazing Game!", I'm 40 year old gamer who has played video games since Atari 2600, Colecovision, Commodore 64, Nintendo and now PS3.
This game is really fantastic. I simply cannot put it down. I stay up till 1am every night playing trying to get to the next level. Here's simple breakdown:
Great: 1. Easy to play 2. Great Weapons -love the mini nuke (fatman), flamethrower, 44 magnum. 3. Graphics are outstanding 4. Just a wonderful feeling not knowing what's going to happen next and you trying to find out. 5. VATS target system is awesome - makes shooting easier and not straight COD 4 although you can play that way if you dont' want to use VATS. 6. Easy to save your game at any time. 7. load times are really fast - game runs smooth.
Not Great: 1. Compass is a little confusing trying to get to next task 2. There are places in game where if you step into you can get locked up through a glitch and have to start over like between two cement barriers. 3. Gattling Gun should be much stronger - sometimes it barely does any damage to an enemy - gun looks great though.
Take it from an Old-School gamer who loves the new games (COD 4, Vegas 2, CC Generals) this game is really top quality - you should buy this game because it is just great work done by Bethesda. This is like a Legend of Zelda for Adults who love Guns.
"Fallout 3", This is the best game I've played in a long time. I have over 50 hours in this and am probably only half done. If you like to explore, this game is for you. It's got a great story and you interact with many characters. You could probably finish this game in 10 to 20 hours if you just followed the main quest but there is so much more you can do. Great Game.
"Great and addictive game... but I'd wait for the patch.", Great game. But it slow in the beginning. Once you level up you'll begin to have more fun due to the fact that you can survive in battle and you can take down more enemies you encounter. If you like exploring, this game has it. Huge map to explore the vast wasteland that has more things that will try to kill you than help you on your quest. Targeting system is ok to acceptable, but that is where V.A.T.S. becomes your greatest weapon against the other foes. Among the somewhat standard weapons that you should repair during your journeys, you can build unique weapons like the 'Rock It' launcher that uses anything you find as ammo.(Cups, paper weight, bottles, plungers, hammers, teddy bears, skulls, etc.)
One that trailers failed to present is the somewhat horror style the game has. Remember its a wasteland with ruined buildings and sewers. Certain places has little to no electricity where your flash light is the only help you'll get.
Why you should wait to buy it: The game has glitches. Some glitches are good, but most will become annoying. Loads are quick and you can save the game anywhere. So if a mistake is done, just go back to your previous saves or auto saves. 1. Some chooses can't be done. Like missing Robots! 2. Your character will get stuck on holes or corners where you can jump or get out of. 3. VATS slow-mo may cause your game to freeze. 4. SERIOUSLY MISSING ROBOTS! Sorry missing characters in the game.
worth buying though, but I'd hope and wait for the patch. rent it for now. But if your computer fits its requirements, I'd get the PC version. Plus, you can fix some problems(getting Robots) yourself, plus if you like cheating it's very easy to do in the PC version.
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