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29.1.2009

Right, I've already reviewed Bioshock, and since everyone seems to associate that linear claustrophobic first person shooter with a massive free-roaming RPG, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and turn my critical eye on Fallout 3.First, some back story. Its the future and humanity has been decimated by worldwide thermonuclear war. The few survivors on the surface have banded together in scattered settlements where they must contend with raiders, mutants, wild animals and other dangers in the irradiated wasteland that was once good old planet Earth. Not exactly a cheerful start.Enter You - the protagonist. You've been living in an underground bunker called the Vault, nestled beneath the remains of Washington DC,your entire life, until one day your dear old dad (voiced by none other than Liam Neeson) inexplicably vanishes, prompting you to venture out into the wastes in search of him. And it's here that the adventure really begins.The thing that strikes you about Fallout 3 the moment you emerge into the harsh sunlight for the first time is just how big the game world is, and how much choice you're given. Choice is a word that games like Bioshock like to bandy about, but really all they boil down to is a series of Kill-or-Save scenarios that do nothing except slightly alter the end cut scene. Fallout 3 is the first one I've played that genuinely makes me believe I'm part of a world where anything is possible, and where my actions can really influence how people perceive me.There are simply no constraints. You're free to go wherever you want right from the start - there are no arbitrary barriers to stop you reaching places the game doesn't want you to see yet. You can talk to people, trade with them, enlist their help, kill them or just ignore them. You can go off on side quests, but you're never forced into it. You can work for or against various factions and groups depending on your outlook. You don't even have to take part in the game's main story if you don't want to - the choice, as they say, is yours.Interaction with other characters plays a big part of Fallout 3. You can have a conversation with just about anyone, and while some of them don't go very far, most allow a fair amount of leeway when it comes to your own responses. Characters can be complimented, questioned, intimidated and threatened depending on the mood you're in. The character models are detailed and expressive enough to make them relatable, and the voice-over cast does a sterling job of bringing their respective avatars to life.People play RPG's for different reasons. Some like to immerse themselves in a fictional world, some appreciate the process of building up a character, and some enjoy interacting with NPC's. Personally, I enjoy the adventure and exploration aspects, so I tend to rate an RPG based on how much fun it is to just wander around looking for trouble. And based solely on that aspect, Fallout 3 is an absolute gem. There's something immensely satisfying about picking a direction and just wandering off into the wastes to see what's out there - I guarantee you'll find something interesting every time.But to say that's the only good thing about Fallout 3 would be doing it a disservice. Attention to detail is what really lifts a game from Good to Great, and Fallout 3 has got it by the truckload. Coming across a deserted shack in the middle of the wastes, I ventured inside to find a decaying skeleton lying in the bathtub with a rusty toaster clutched in its arms. Little touches like this add so much to the game's grim atmosphere.Speaking of which, if you're the sort of person to suffer from depression or melancholy, Fallout 3 really isn't the game for you. Its world is a harsh, dangerous, unforgiving place where most people live on the knife edge of survival, and it conveys this sense of bleak futility so well that at times it really does get to you.However, if I have to be harsh with this game (and I do), I need to mention a few sticking point. First of all, the game engine - Fallout 3 uses an updated version of the Oblivion engine, which makes sense since the two games feature large free-roaming worlds packed with lots of interesting stuff. But with so many things to keep track of, it was inevitable that problems were going to creep in, and they do. Glitches abound, from boulders hanging inexplicably in mid-air to texture warping and a physics engine that sometimes doesn't know when to stop a dead body from bouncing around. Things like these perhaps shouldn't irritate as much as they do, but they spoil what is otherwise a highly immersive experience.Combat is another frustration. There's a game mechanic that allows you a limited number of action points to slow down time and target specific parts of an enemy (usually the head unless you're a complete idiot), but this is rarely enough to kill more than one opponent, leaving you to use real time targeting in most cases. But when you consider that most weapons are so inaccurate that you'd be better off throwing them at your enemies, you can see why combat is less than rewarding. And the fact that weapons and armour degrade with repeated use (and therefore have to repaired at considerable cost) only adds to the frustration.But despite these frustrations, I'm not going to mark Fallout 3 down, because it's just so damned fun to play. It will happily suck up hours or days of your life if you let it, and I'm pleased to say I did. I recommend you do likewise.
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25.10.2009

It's not often I give five stars to a game, but Fallout 3 deserves them all. It's a remarkable achievement, and a totally immersive experience. It's a huge game, although you might find the story is not the real meat of the gameplay here because ( a bit like in Grand Theft Auto 3 and its successors) you can spend so much time wandering around the game universe just doing whatever takes your fancy, that the actual plot almost comes in second place.The game puts your character into post-apocalyptic Washington DC, starting off with a very amusing prologue in which you "grow up" from birth to maturity inside a sealed bunker. There is a sudden and life-changing event in the bunker which sees you suddenly ejected into the outside world,and it's here that the game suddenly leaps into life. I almost couldn't believe my eyes at what I was seeing: a vast, fully explorable wasteland that stretches as far as the eye can see and beyond. And this was just the beginning. Once you start playing you'll soon realise that there is no "right" way to play "Fallout 3". You just do what you think is right, be this helping people or killing wantonly. To progress through the game you need to make a vague nod towards searching for a missing character and discovering locations where there may be people who can help and clues to what to do next. But you don't have to do this until you feel like it. Wander around the blasted landscape and you will come across various bands of people and ruined locations, all of which offer various degrees of danger, help or need of your assistance. Just talk to people that you meet and hear what they have to say, and then you're ready to start making those moral choices!As you might have worked out by now, the graphics in this game really blew me away. The scenery is simply stunning - the grim wasteland is home to derelict buildings like factories and shopping malls, most of which can be explored, but nothing prepared me for the scale of the capital city centre - massive, destroyed skyscrapers and freeways, tumbling down townhouses and twisted metal and debris everywhere. And it doesnt stop there, characters and enemies look fantastic too.Apart from exploring, the other thing you'll be doing a lot of its fighting. The game provides you with a kind of point-based attack system (called VATS), which allows you to pause the action at any time and choose which enemies (or body parts of a single enemy) you would like to expend you attack points on. Simply choose all the places you'd like to hit, then unleash the attack and watch the results in slow motion. Once all your points are gone you need to avoid being hit while they build up again and them repeat until enemies are dead. I have to say this took me quite a while to work out. The game would really have benefitted from a detailed battle tutorial. But once you get it, you'll love it. Although, you don't even have to use this method. You can simply aim at enemies in normal play mode and shoot from any numbers of guns that are around to collect, or you can get up close and pummel baddies with melee weapons. I have no complaints about the VATS system, in fact I found it very difficult to survive fights without it.What's really great (well, I thought so), is that you can choose to play Fallout 3 in 1st person or 3rd person. I played the prologue in 1st person and hated it...once I was outside the bunker I switched to 3rd person and never looked back. It's been said that the 3rd person mode is inferior - the main character looks like his feet aren't touching the ground when he moves, but the camera view can be zoomed in or out (a GREAT idea!!), so I set it to an over the shoulder view from about the knees up and: hey presto, can't see his feet!Another good thing is the menu interface, it's a wristband/PDA type thing that the character always wears, and it allows you to do a massive amount of stuff such as item management, setting skills, repairing equipment, reading files and so on. And there are a lot of items! Every location has stuff you can pick up like weapons, ammo, healthpacks, drugs, but the wasteland is also overflowing with items like the "ruined book", "coffee cup", "spoon" and so on, which you can gather up until you inventory is overflowing and find no use for at all. I suppose it adds to the reality of things...There are many great things about this game, although it is not perfect. Twice I was playing and the whole game froze and I had to reboot my PS3. And it was possible to plant the character in parts of the scenery (usually among big piles of rubble) from which it was impossible to step or jump out of - again requiring a restart. On certain occasions the camera went spinning into blind views, usually after a shoot-out in VATS mode, but I guess this goes with the freedom of movement allowed to you in the game as a whole.However these are only niggles, and they didn't affect my top score - I think everyone should play this game. It's very easy to get addicted to it. The prologue is weak, but the amount of gameplay that succeeds it is immense and once you start you'll be unable to leave it alone.
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4.2.2009

'Oblivion with guns' has been a phrase used to describe Fallout 3 on many an occasion. And yes it does take some of its cues from Bethesda Softworks' other brilliant RPG, but it is also an altogether more real, gritty and dark experience. The game is set in America's capital, Washington DC, years after it has been devastated by nuclear warfare. Before the bombs were dropped, however, more priveliged members of society reserved slots in underground vaults, built to shelter people from such disasters.The story begins with your birth with you choosing a name. From here more stages play out in the vault to determine your starting stats, appearance and introduce you to the controls and gameplay mechanics.After all this is said and done, you are awakened to discover that your father; who had raised you from infancy since your mother's death, has escaped the vault. You then decide to follow him out into the outside world, and find him.Once you step out of the confines of the vault, you're free to go wherever you wish. In the same vein as Oblivion, what you do next is up to you. The simple realisation that you can in fact head off in whichever direction you choose after being penned in on a linear pathway during the opening few sections is an overwhelming and brilliant experience. You can either follow the main quest and attempt to 'complete' the game's main story, if you're used to being told where to go and only having one pathway to do so then this may be an attractive option. And the story won't disappoint either, as it's more involving than Oblivion's and keeps it real. Well, as real as a nuked city full of mutants and crazies can be.If you want, however, you could just bypass the main storyline altogether and become a murdering, nuke toting, slave trading evil mutha, or a saintly, child saving, animal befriending, nuke worshipping angel. Whatever takes your fancy. The large amount of side quests and different ways of approaching them means that although the world may be smaller than that of Oblivion, it is deeper and has more possibilities.As mentioned above, how you behave effects the world around you and while some opportunities may be unavailable to you for being too much of a goody goody/evil baddy, others will open. This is down to the 'karma' system, whereby selfless good deeds like offering a dying man a drink will earn you good karma, and shooting the guy in the face for asking then looting his dehydrated body will earn you bad karma. What level of karma you finish at will determine what ending you get, meaning there is huge replay value in going back and making different choices on your journey to see how the end result differs.The graphics are exceedingly good for such a vast game, and attention to detail is excellent. The drab browns and greys of the wasteland may not be stunning to behold but set the scene brilliantly and the whole dark nature of it all is very atmospheric. Gore hunters will be in their element here as limbs fly off and large chunks of flesh explode everywhere when bullet hits brain. It certainly isn't for the faint hearted.The controls are tight yet well rounded, with the VATS system offering an alternative to bashing R1 to try and score a kill by peppering your enemy with bullets. It freezes time and allows you to target specific body parts and shows a percentage chance of a hit and how much health it will take off. The amount of action points you have determines how many attempts you have to shoot, but don't worry they recharge quickly. This works well at medium to long range but close up when an enemy is attacking you from within inches, it looks messy and you're better off manual aiming.You can view the game from a first or third person perspective, and both are well implemented. The levelling system follows the traditional XP earning ways. With points awarded for completing quests, killing enemies and finding locations. However, the addition of special perks add a bit of variety to the stat tracking. There is unfortunately a level cap at twenty though, so choose your upgrades wisely before you get there. The emotionless characters and stiff voice acting has loosened up a bit in Fallout 3, but it seems Joe McDullgeneric has crept in a bit here too.There are so many features to go into that I could keep on writing for pages upon pages, but at the end of the day you really just have to experience Fallout 3 for yourself. It is a truly epic and deeply involving game and a technical masterpiece to boot. If you liked Oblivion, you will love this and if you didn't ever play it this is a must have even so. The lack of any DLC for the PS3 version is slightly unfair, but with fifty or so hours gameplay anyway who needs it? This game is an RPG masterpiece and is almost impeccable but for a few minor annoyances. Overall though, this one will be tough to top, even for Bethesda. I'm giving Fallout 3:9/10
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23.8.2012

First thing I feel I should mention is do not worry if you haven't played the first 2 fallout games, the story is not continuing from the previous games. Fallout 1 & 2 were PC exclusive over the top RPGs and Bethesda went in a completely different direction with fallout 3 changing it to a first person RPG. People who are afraid of first person shooters should not be put of by this game, yes you may have a gun and the game is played in first person but it is an RPG at its heart.Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, 200 years after a nuclear holocaust but before the bombs went off people moved inside vaults to protect themselves.You play as a boy/girl growing up inside the vault and eventually leaving to the outside known as the capital wasteland.You start the game literally at the beginning of your characters life, the game opens with you being born. You create your character however you wish: choose the sex, name, appearance, skills and attributes. These decisions affect what type of tasks you will be best at, you can be a guy who can carry hundreds of guns shooting anything in his way, a stealthy assassin who can lock pick and hack into anything or a person who can talk their way out of any problem.You then go through key moments in a childs life in the vault such as learning to walk for the first time, taking your exams as a teenage and spending time with your father getting to know him, these events set up your character and get you used to the controls. One night your father disappears, you are chased out of the vault and forced to exit the wasteland in search of answers.The moment you leave the vault and see the outside world blew me away and there hasn't been a moment in any other game like it for me. You can see for miles and you can explore it all,iIf there is a house in the distance you can go to it and steal what's inside or if there is a city nearby you can go in to trade with the stores, once you leave the vault it is up to you to do whatever you want, you can help people with their problems, search for your father or just explore.The games setting is called "retro-futurism". Everything looks like it's from the 1920s but there are sci-fi weapons such as lasers, Plasma guns and robots. The capital wasteland that tou travel around is made up of Washington DC, north Virginia and Maryland, as you go through the main story you visit the white house, Washington monument and jefferson memorial in the game.The atmosphere is a key part of the game, as I wondered through the wasteland with the only sound being the wind blowing past or your radio playing I got a feeling of loneliness which no other game has come close to capturing.VATS is the biggest addition to fallout 3; if you get into a fight and have any stamina you can press a button to stop the action, the camera will zoom in on the enemy picking off key parts of its body that you can shoot, you pick the part you want to shoot at then it enters a cinematic of you shooting. This make the battles feel less stressful and more tactical.If I have any complaints it's that the main story involving finding your father ends predictably and if you plan on just doing that quest then you can complete the game in around 6 hours but the point of fallout 3 is to explore and create your own adventure. After doing about half of the side missions and completing the main story I had played the game for a total of 35-40 hours and I hadn't even started any of the 5 expansions.Some people have said they feel the controls are awkward but that has never affected me. I've also heard people say they don't like the way combat feels, combat is primarily you dodging their attacks waiting for your stamina to fill up then use VATS as that is the only way to guarantee a kill but again I was fine with it.Fallout 3 is unlike anything I have played on a console this generation, your experience that you have will be YOUR experiance, it will be different to anyone elses you know that has played it. I love talking to people who have completed it and asking them what they did and hearing their stories. Fallout 3 is a game that deserves multiple playthroughs, I can play through it ten times and get ten different adventures which is what compels me to keep going back to it after 4 years.This is a must play for anyone interested in a good story or wanting to just explore a quirky and engrossing universe.Overall - 10/10
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13.12.2009

First off the crashes. I did suffer from irritating crashes aswell in all 5 of the expansion packs but not to the inhibitive effect that other people have experienced. I used my original Fallout 3 game and downloaded the expansions from PSN so I don't know if that helped make any positive difference.The original game itself is one of the finest RPgs on PS3,immersive, featuring intricate storylines and well developed characters.The game is very open-ended and free roaming. You choose when to progress the main quest,when to explore and whether to take up the numerous alternative quests. The game features a smaller more refined map than Oblivion's which makes it easier to uncover the numerous locations in the Wasteland.Combat with Vats is pretty cool as you can zoom in on different areas of the body and can do enough damage to take off a limb or perform a particularly bloody decapitation; which is probably why the 18 rating is in place that and the other adult content such as the drugs,sex and the solid peppering of expletives throughout the game! I also liked the way in which your actions in Karma is used in the game to determine your character alignment:good, neutral or evil. There is also plenty of character customisation each time you advance levels. You get the opportunity to own a house in Megaton which you can customise and upgrade to your taste and is a useful base to set out from in your adventuring across the Wasteland.Mothership Zeta- Contrary to some other reviewers I found MZ to be one of the best expansion packs. Responding to a distress signal in the Wasteland you are caught in the beam of the spaceship and held captive. I particularly like all the Npcs that join with you to help faciltate your escape from the Alien ship. Featuring a good mix of characters: Paulson a cowboy,a samurai, Somah a fellow wastelander, a soldier and Sally a child. Furthermore, you get your hands on the Alien Disintegrator, which is one of the best weapons in the game. Once you complete this you can revisit the spaceship to stock up on more supplies as Sally and the soldier, two of your above allies stay on board to man it.Point Lookout- In a search for a missing person you buy yourself passage on a ferry to Point Lookout set in Maryland. Point Lookout features numerous interesting locations to explore, some tough new foes in the swamp people and new weapons and items. I particularly enjoyed the quest with the stroppy ghoul Desmond where you help him hold the fort, assisting him to repel the native invaders from his home. Tobar the all to amenable ferryman is another interesting character of note that you can also trade with.Operation Anchorage- OA involves you taking part in a computer simulation set by the Outcasts to gain access to an armoury. The simulation involves freeing Alaska from Chinese occupation. For the majority of it you pair up with Sergeant Montgomery but for one of the quests you get to command your own strike team. The miltary based quests are fun and action packed.The Pitt- Set in Pittsburgh the Pitt for me was the weakest of the 5 expansion packs.Pittsburgh is ravaged by disease and the slave underclass are gradually succumbing to it. You are recruited by a guy called Werner to help free the slaves and to steal the `Cure` from the Slavers. I didn't enjoy the quests too much nor the locations. You can choose whether to help Werner and the slaves or team up with the Slavers. I selected the former which I assumed was the so called good option, so I've yet to experience what happens if you opt for the Slavers path.The Pitt is very regimented in its quests and there is little freedom to roam.Broken Steel- This is the best expansion pack as it removes the level cap allowing your character to progress to level 30, opening up some terrific perks like Almost Perfect giving you minimum stats of 9. It also progresses the main quest allowing you to move on from that abrupt ending when you complete the unexpanded Fallout 3.I would advise you to opt to download Broken Steel first as you'll need those extra levels as without them you'll find these expansion packs super rock hard.
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31.5.2013

This four year old game has been reviewed extensively so in keeping with my other RPG reviews, I'm going to try and give a female gamer perspective on it.First of all, if you have the choice, get the xbox version. I've played both and the xbox version runs better and crashes less often. It's particularly noticeable when you're high level and are working through the DLC.So you want to be a post-apocalyptic gun toting bad-ass chick? This game is definitely worth a look. There are quests for heros, quests for dubious canabalistic vampire types and you can even join up with the slavers. The engine keeps track of all this with a karma system. There are NPC followers who will only join you if your karma is good,bad or neutral. Even the house you get depends on whether you choose to help a town, or blow it up. In that sense, I find this game less constraining than FO:NV where factions will quickly hate you if you kill a few of them, even if you left no witnesses (some sort of unexplained magic I guess - which is a whole other rant about developers making up rules that have no basis in the game world they've created). So lets look at a few specifics.Character? Alright, considering the age of the game. Female protagonist is an option and she can have wild purple hair if you like. Armour comes in varying degrees of flattery from Raider Painspike, which seems to involve a bra made out of colanders, to full power armour that makes you look like a genderless robot. None of it can be improved beyond it's maximum armour value which means if you fancy wearing raider armour as a higher level character, you might need to turn the difficulty setting down a notch.Romance? No.Followers? Renegades get a follower earlier than heros, unless you know exactly where to go to get Dogmeat. They're fairly basic but solid on the whole. With the Broken steel add-on that comes with this edition, two of them become virtually indestructible which forced me to turn up the difficulty setting to maximum when I was a high level character.Loot and inventory? Fairly good and intuitive. I'm not much of an FPS fan, so this game has more than enough choice of weapons and armour for me. All of it needs to be maintained which with your repair skill you can do yourself, or pay some NPCs to do it for you. Big guns are plentiful and look really cool in third person mode one-on-one with a Deathclaw.Combat? First person with the option to zoom out to third person. In my experience, the third person perspective only works well with VATS (the computer targeting system) or with melee weapons. Third person is more playable in FO:NV. So you can either aim and shoot, or drop into VATS and pick your targets while the game is effectively paused.DLC? Mixed bag. I couldn't finish Operation Anchorage because I kept drifting off. I can imagine the design meeting: 'what this roleplaying game needs is a first-person shooter DLC'. No, it didn't. It needed DLC with a good storyline.Mothership Zeta. Framerate all over the place and the story wasn't good enough to compensate. Again, didn't finish it.Point Lookout. Fallout 3 gets a few tribes and some freaky inbred hillbillies. It's a lot better than it sounds. It also has some intriguing side-quests, discoverables and the gaming equivalent of an acid trip. Arguably one of the best of the DLCs because you get a whole new Island to explore.The Pitt. A dark journey into a world of slavery. The story is alright but a bit linear and the quest markers are even more dodgy than usual. Very satisfying slaughter match at the end with evil NPCs that needed to DIE!Broken Steel: I hardly think of this as DLC because it continues seamlessly from the end of the main quest. Good loot, reasonable climax, new places to explore, but really, Sarah Lyons should have been available as a follower.So all in all, not bad for a four year old game although it would have been nice to be able to join a raider gang or something. Sure you can join the slavers but the leader is ugly, has a heart shaped velvet bed and a female sex slave. Not my kind of gang.
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16.5.2009

After completing Bioshock I was in the mood for another game that involved a bit of RPG element and combat. I bought Fallout 3 and I to begin with I found the game a bit slow going, I was wondering around not really doing much trying to find some quests to run and so earn experience to gain in levels. The more I have been playing this however, the more I have become addicted to it!! I am now at level 14 and am still enjoying the game trying to find skillbooks, bobbleheads to increase attributes and trying to solve a few quests I have open to run. This game is great fun!! As you advance in levels you have skill points to allocate to your skills making them increase from 0 to 100,100 being the max a skill can be taken to. With the skills you have ones such as lock picking, repair, speech, science, small guns, energy weapons, etc..... and these are dependent on your attributes that you allocate to your character at the beginning of the game. So e.g. high intelligence will give you more skill points per level and gives you bonuses to your science skill, perception helps improve your shooting and seeing enemies in your local vicinity. You can collect skill books that will increase a specific skill i.e. speech from searching areas and these will increase the relevant skill by one point which while not sounding much can add up if you are able to find lots of the same skill. Then there is the combat, you can attack people in the standard FPS way, run around dodging their fire while shooting back, but the best way is to use the V.A.T.S system, this means that when you are near an enemy you press R2 and then screen will zoom onto enemy and you can allocate where you want to hit, so you can aid for the target's weapon to knock it out of their hands, aim for their head, torso or limbs. Each area has hit points and if you reduce a target's leg to 0 hit points say they will limp as they chase you or they may see you are the better fighter and try to run away. For the V.A.T.S system you have a certain amount of action points (AP) which recharge after use, firing a weapon or using a grenade or sword uses a certain amount of AP and so after you have used all these you must wait a short while as these recharge. You will find that you may have to run around a bit dodging fire as this happens.Also, when increasing in level you gain "perks" which are special abilities you can add to your character, e.g. Sniper Perk = an increased chance of hitting people in the head. Toughness = 10% damage resistance. Mysterious Stranger = I wont tell you what happens with this one, but if you take it and it happens during a V.A.T.S fight you will love it.As has been stated you start life as an infant with Liam Neeson as your father!! You then go out into the world and can choose how you want your character to be, you can be evil and kill everything, everyone you meet or you can be good and help people, or neutral which is kind of doing a bit of both so that you aren't really evil or good. Along the way you can find weapons such as pistols, lasers, missile launchers etc... which are great fun and if you train yourself in repair you can keep them in good order without spending lots of money getting someone else to repair it.Overall, this game has great longetivity and replay value, you can replay as good, evil, and neutral, change the outcome of certain quests that you weren't able to do before, and you can acquire followers if you can find them in the great wasteland, I am trying to find the dog follower at the moment......On the PC and Xbox there are the expansions for it so hopefully we PS3 players wont have to wait too long for these to come as level 20 is the maximum you can achieve until you play the expansion.I cannot recommend this game enough, it has had me playing for too many hours that I have lost count!!! The game is a bit slow starting but once you have gone up a few levels and completed a few quests the game really comes into it's own and will have you hooked!!
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27.12.2008

This game has the same quality mark that Oblivion had, that is to say it has a large expanse to explore with plenty of items to find and variety of denizens to encounter, but at the same time there is a fairly rigid game structure.The bad guys are the bad guys, you can never be friends with them no matter what you do; the buildings and scenery are all fixed, so no shooting rockets at a building that's ready to collapse to get rid of bad guys (it could be made of paper and still survive a rocket attack); the dungeons are all much the same type of affair, and mostly use the same interior graphics (in oblivion it was rocky caves,in Fallout 3 it's metal grates and piping); characters are two-dimensional with preset responses to the dialogue options you're given, which is not always what you want to say or do; bad guys do not seem to have the intelligence to chase you from inside a building to the outside, some just try to find a way to get to you despite being shot to pieces in the process (they don't have the intelligence to run and hide most of the time). These things show the weakness of the game engine and programming in my opinion, but largely they can be tolerated.On the plus side, the game itself has a strange quality all of it's own, despite sharing many similarities with Oblivion. Yes, the basic quest mechanics of 'go there, kill that, talk to such-and-such' are there, but with the addition of technology there's a much wider array of tools and methods with which to kill the enemy; have some fun with land mines, throw in some grenades, make your own weapon out of bits of junk (once you acquire the blueprints). There are also new things like computer hacking and robots to deal with, all of which is done rather well in the game.The fun for me is in not playing it in a straight-laced manner, but finding new and novel ways to defeat otherwise very tough baddies who would slaughter me very quickly given half the chance! Of course, if you wanted to you could just work on your physical strength and become a close-combat expert, there are many variations on character upgrades to choose from as you level up.It's quite amusing to come across a battle between 'goodies' and 'baddies', seeing what the outcome is or joining in; of course, it's probably better to side with the goodies if the baddies are very tough and likely to win. Have an escape route ready at all times!Would like to have seen more ability to alter the game world as exists in Red Faction, to re-arrange or even rebuild my house, but these things certainly do not break the game.The graphics do not shine as much as other recent PS3 titles, it seems to be at the same level as Oblivion but with rocks and barren earth instead of lush green meadows. The detail and complexity in the ruined buildings is good, but annoying barriers of rubble (which in reality would easily be climbable) block the way and force you to follow the route through certain parts of the city the game designers wanted you to... right into where the big bad guys are conveniently lurking. There is also a quite disappointing colour banding effect in the sky when it turns from evening to night. There seems to be no weather or seasons either - did the earth change it's orbit or something? Possibly, but there's no mention of it in the back story. Would have been nice to see even a bit of rain, lightning storms, dust storms, snow even. In this area, Oblivion had a lot more to offer.A patch was released which fixes several annoying bugs; so far after applying the patch I have only experienced one occurrence of the game quitting suddenly, otherwise the game has run pretty well flawlessly.If you take your time there's easily 75+ hours in this game.
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13.10.2009

now my first comment is this game is amzing value as it comes with all 5 downloadable packs (worth £40 alone) plus the game to start, i'll review the game.in the year 2077 after years of war between america and the chinese, america (and presumably the rest of the world) gets nuked. To protect it's citizens a company named vault tec created vaults a safe place to live after the blast.200 years later your story begins, you start in the vault 101 through a series of flash forwards you build your characters basics and skills (know as S.P.E.C.I.A.L). Then due to an event (which i wont spoil)you leave the vault entering your own grand story in the capital wasteland.this game has hundreds of missions both main and side,as well as a karma system consisting of good nuetral and bad karma these are based and affected by actions interactions and missions.a nice touch is the radio, consisting of originally galaxy news radio (the free voice of the wastelands)and the enclave the remenants of the U.S government. If you tune in to galaxy news radio their DJ three dog tells tales of your expliots both good and bad so you can keep in your own little loop as well as useful news on potnetial missions.now onto enemies the range of enemies is vast: there are raiders who are humans who took the anarchistic road, there are ghouls these are humans who were exposed to huge amounts of radiation and didn't die giving them long life and zombie like looks. Most are friendly but some lose their minds going feral attacking any humans, if you are on the good path you may be attacked by a group of mercs called talon company, there are mutated animals such as dogs radscorpians yao gaoi (basically bears) mole rats and the ever annoying deathclaw (i advise you to avoid them), there are robots ranging from your standard protectrons, to the more powerful military grade mister gutsy, then there are creatures called super mutunts who are basically huge brutes with great strength, however these dont seem to be becuase of radiation it seems to be due to "another source"the story is incredibly huge if you're willing to look around, you can see just how certian people survive and more importantly how your going to survive, the wasteland is full of different people each with there own agenda e.g. a useful possible ally is the brotherhood of steal these are heavy armoured soldiers who hunt super mutants they become a useful aid in the later game.now the individual downloads in the order i think you should play thembroken steel: this is a sequal taking place after the initial story ends focusing on the brotherhood of steels plight against a certian enemy you'll have to find out for yourselfs)operation anchorage: at the request of brotherhood outcasts wanting some rare tech you are requested to go inside a simulater of one of the biggest events of the american chinese war the liberation of anchorage alaska this sees you play a foot soldier in the war as well as commanding strike teamsthe pitt: you travel to what was once pittsberg to find most people there are slaves as well a deadly mutation occuring as well as incredibly morally grey choicespoint lookout: travel by boat to an area called point lookout a vast swampland teaming with strange creatures and even stranger locals (this is one of the much harder areas)mothership zeta: upon discovering a crashed alien spaceship you are beamed aboard a mothership where a dark plot comes into play with the kidnaping of several thousand people you have to find a way to stop there planoverall this is an amazingly generous game of the year making it a must buy for existing fans and a great start for newbies
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28.2.2010

Fallout 3 is a game about post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. You start off when you are born in Vault 101 (a place where the survivors of the Nuclear war between America and China are living) and work your way up to when you are 19 years old and your dad leaves the vault. You now decide to try and find him, but it is more complicated than it sounds, giving you many twists and turns along the way. The journey will have you fighting a huge array of monsters, from giant Super Mutants to fire breathing ants and meeting loads of new and interesting characters (Some human and some not).When i first saw the game Fallout 3 i had mixed views.I couldn't decide if it was just another atmospheric RPG wannabe or if it would be something truly unique and reshape the face of gaming for years to come. Of course, it is the latter. This game is truly incredible. When you first play it its hard to take in just how much there is to do and find and i think i may never be completely finished with it.After having played it for around 2 or 3 hours, i wasn't fully impressed. I found it difficult to obtain weapons and ammo and i found myself dying almost every time i met an enemy. However, once my level had begun to increase and i had better equipment then the game really began to shine. I have been playing for around 40 hours now and i am still far from finished but i cannot take my eyes away.THE GOOD:-The game and the 5 add-ons will probably take you <120 hours to complete (100 hours to fully complete the main game and 20-25 for the add-ons).-Doesn't glitch anywhere near as much as some reviews say it does (after playing the game for 40 hours i have had to restart my system 3 times)-A unique combat system (V.A.T.S. is where you can slow down time and target separate areas of an enemies body for deadly attacks)-Incredibly atmospheric. The soundtrack and voice acting are all top notch, allowing for you to really become a part of the Fallout world.-The landscapes and the attention to detail is wonderful, every building is a joy to look at-An in depth RPG system. There are skills to upgrade, S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats to choose, karma level to consider, guns to maintain, side quests, multiple types of armor, a now (after the Brotherhood of Steel add-on) level 30 level cap, etc etc.THE BAD-Character faces and animations seem limited at times-Game can crash occasionally (but rarely) and bugs tend to occur-Takes a few hours to get going-May be over complicated for some (if so i recommend buying the guide which tells you everything you will ever need to know)-No sort of multiplayer. If you are looking for a game to play with your friends then this is not one for you-Not recommended for younger/ Novice gamers. The game has a lot of depth and can be daunting if you are new to RPGs.OVERALLGraphics- 9/10. Nothing special but the way Bethesda have managed to fit it into such a huge area is incredibleGameplay- 10/10. A near flawless experience which is hard to be challenged by other gamesPresentation- 10/10. The Game is hugely atmospheric and charming in every way.Longevity- 10/10. The game was long enough as standard, but with the added expansion packs it will take you quite a while to become bored of Fallout 3Fallout 3 is definitely one of my favorite games of all time. It is stylish and charming and there is a huge amount of things to do. This game goes highly recommended to any gamer who is looking for an easy pass time and although it may not be to the liking of more casual gamers, it is certainly a game that will take a long time to forget.
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3.6.2012

I know Fallout 3 came out almost 4 years ago, followed by the GOTY Edition, but I purchased it recently to see why it is highly rated.I will avoid spoiling the story for those who have not played the game by going in into big details. But, to summarise in a nutshell, the game focuses on your character, that has lived in the comfort and security of the *Vault* since birth, suddenly leaving after his/her father to the outside world which is a post atomic/apocolyptic wasteland, in order to chase him up. The rest is up to you to find out.The game is absolutely brilliant in terms of what it offers, it is massive in size and there are so many in-game locations to discover and visit that have a story (sometimes freaky)to explore and discover. You will spend hours upon hours trying to play through all the missions (especially if you are a trophy hunter like myself) and going back and forth between locations, which has been made easy thanks to the fast-travel feature. It does start off a bit slow and the graphics at the beginning are not that pretty but once you get through the first part, things start looking better.I like how you can alternate between first-person and third-person view to suit your individual taste. I prefer the third-person perspective and panning the camera in so it is just behind my characters right shoulder (reminiscent of the camera angle in Resident Evil 4).The unique VATS aiming system is quite clever yet albeit slightly frustrating at times (some shots which should easily hit target still end up missing!). However, the results are also quite gruesome yet fun to watch most of the times, considering how an enemys head may fly off in a violent eruption of blood and gore, or get blown to tiny chunks of blood and bone! Even limbs will fly off at death, if shot at!its also impressive considering how many lines of script have been included as non-playable characters say many different things making the game a very real experience.However, on a negative side, there are numerous tech issues which quite honestly should not have been in the GOTY version. You will experience numerous game freezing incidents and crashes throughout the campaign requiring to reset your system. Sometimes when you aim manually you will find bullets going through an enemy head and not harming them - silly to be honest.Also, there is a bug which Bethesda should have fixed with a patch which is potentially GAME-BREAKING!! (thankfully I found a way through after spending time online looking for a solution - thanks Youtube!). The bug involved unlocking a door in Vault 112 with a key which was practically NON-EXISTANT in the game! If you get into a similar position as me, look for *fallout 3 vault 12 failsafe code* video on Youtube, to stand a chance!Just remember to make regular save files for backup, in case things go wrong!!!Despite these issues, I really have enjoyed Fallout 3 from what I have played so far. I strongly recommend it to all gamers who have not played it. For a 2008 game its brilliant yet four years later (as of today) it is still a gem to play! The positive points easily outweigh the negative points. Bethesda has managed to create such a surreal yet realistic experience with Fallout 3 and as a result it is one of the best games you will play.Highly Recommended - 92/100
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22.10.2011

Fallout3 is a hard game to review...On the one hand its an absolutely amazing game - a strong storyline, decent graphics, a massive amount of content and freedom to do as you want (be good or be evil) and play any style you want, a pretty big map to explore and some varied side quests to do. Theres nothing overly complicated to the game and its easy to get into.It really is freedom to play as you like!You do have to give it a few hours to get used to though. You can walk out of the vault and be mobbed by creatures or humans and die easily and be put off. But once you get equipped, get some health and learn the ropes...its a pretty easy game.And for the price its hard to say no considering the hours and hours of original and DLC you get here!On the other hand - this game is bug ridden and depending on how unlucky you get, it can turn an amazing game into a headpounding nightmare. But on a positive note, most of the bugs only show up during the DLC. But that then makes the DLC a pain to play.I've experienced trophies not unlocking on SEVERAL quests, despite having completed them.I've experienced loading times, towards the end of the game going up into 10 minutes between areas.I've had my console freeze on me a few times.I've had frame rates drop to near un-useable.I've had the game continually crash when trying to travel back to certain areas from the DLC maps.There was also other things which I've noticed though......the game is basically sold on the idea that it has tones of side quests, a long with the main story. But from my experience of playing the game, the side quests stop about half way through. Then you spend the rest of your time simply following a set storyline and then maybe doing a bit of exploring afterwards.That isn't a bad thing, as the main story is great. But since the game is sold as being "sandbox" and giving you lots to do outside of the main quest... those "other things" you do.. kind of run out quick.There is also the use of "henchmen" (i.e an AI character who follows you around and helps fight). I found two of those, but they only showed up about 3/4 of the way through the game. By which point you have completed all the side quests and most of the main story.It would have been nice to have them available earlier on in the game, and they do make a massive difference to making the game more fun. Especially if you get your dog early on too.The ingame crafting of weapons and items is also a bit pointless in my opinion. I managed to get through the entire game without building anything of my own. I bought everything from a shop keeper or took weapons from bodies. The only "crafting" I did, was to occassionally repair my own weapons.And graphically.. (I know graphics dont make a game), I've personally never thought Fallout3 was a nice looking game. Even upon release. I've never understood why anyone said it had great visuals.Bottom line - this is a great game and you have to play it. But you will need to watch out for those bugs (primarily in the DLC) because they will show up and quite possibly kill your game, so save regularly!Side tip - play the Alien DLC and Virutal reality DLC first as they give you the best weapons and best armor in the game and make life a lot easier when playing.
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5.1.2010

Let me just start by saying that yes, the GOTY edition of Fallout 3 is very liable to freeze and can lag occasionaly to a very frustrating extent. However, I also say that by saving regularly (say every 10 mins) allows you to play the game effectively without worrying about losing a significant amount of progress. Also, when the game gets so much right and provides almost endless entertainment, these small annoyances are easily overlooked.I'm sure everyone has heard the story before, but I just thought I would reiterate upon it briefly. Fallout 3 plays in one of the most incredible and realistic settings ever seen; a post-apocalyptic Washington, D.C, aswell as parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Alaska,in the year 2277. In terms of the story line, you play as the 'Lone Wanderer', following in your father's footsteps in the attempt to purify the highly irradiated water supply which purges the 'Capital Wasteland', as the area is known. The quests are highly varied, extremely enjoyable and also quite lengthy, so Fallout will keep you playing for a very long time.Combat is perhaps the best part of the game though. The ingenious V.A.T.S system allows you to target certain areas on enemies you wish to strike, so taking down a horde of rampaging super mutants isn't as hard as it sounds, depending of course on which difficulty you choose. In addition to the V.A.T.S is the Pip-Boy 3000, a portable device which provides just about everything you need for the game. Weapons, apparel (clothing to the normal minded person like you and me), aid, ammo, misc items and most importantly, the map of the wasteland. Now, this is big. Very big. Although I'm unsure of the 'official szie', it contains well over 150 different locations to discover, and when you throw in the map sizes from the 5 add-ons, it is quite remarkable how much their is out there to engage with. Thankfully, once a location is dsicovered, you have the option to 'fast travel' there from your current location. I shudder to think how long it would have taken to amble across the wasteland had this not been included. Fallout 3 immerses you in a truly awesome spectacle and although the graphics themselves aren't outstanding, the setting itself is more than enough to admire.Other details such as karma (how good or bad you decide to play), the rank up system (gaining XP from killing enemies, discovering new places, completing quests etc), bartering, interacting through speech with others, gaining perks and almost endless others combine to make Fallout an unmissable experience. There is simply far too much about the game to talk about, and although I'm not usually into RPG's, I was completely engrossed in Fallout. It can be played and enjoyed by just about anyone, and with the addition of all 5 add-on packs (Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt, Mothership Zeta, Broken Steel and Point Lookout) this simply must be bought.
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29.8.2009

Important you need the original Fallout3 to play this add-on.I was disappointed with the Operation Anchorage/The Pitt add-on. This however is far far better.First Broken Steel which is actually an extension of the original game. For those who haven't played or completed FO3 I won't spoil the ending, just say that instead of the game finishing as in the original it carries on with the player continuing their adventures with the Brotherhood and the Enclave. You still get the original cut scene ending which does make the additional continuation of the story a little disjointed but this does not spoil the story or the enjoyment.Broken Steel does fall a little into the trying to be a FPS trap thathampered Op Anchorage and the main quest can at times seem to be a mindless blast (it's fun though) but the side quest are interesting all I'll say is remember to visit places from the original game and not just the new areas that appear on the map. As it does use the original map it doesn't feel as 'on rails' as the previous add-on although there are plenty of corridors to run and fight down. They have also put in some little physics touches as well, for example, if you find a house of cards and remove the bottom one it collapses nicely.I give Broken Steel a 4/5Now Point Lookout which to me is a true add-on the player buys a ticket and takes a boat trip to Maryland where there are a number of quests and side quests to play and a large play area to explore. If you think of the Florida Everglades crossed with the Blair Witch Project it will give you some idea of the scenery, swampy and overgrown with some quite eerie locations. Graphically the views can be quite stunning on a powerful machine.If you want the game to last longer don't fast travel anywhere as you will probably miss something it does not take too long to walk from one end of the play area to the other.I did point lookout when I was nearly at the end of FO3 but unlike Broken Steel in which you have to complete the main FO3 story arc you can buy a ticket and travel there at any time.The monsters and opposition that I met were quite tough although I'm unsure if this is because I was I high level character or it is generally harder to play the add-ons.I give point lookout 5/5Both these add-ons are a vast improvement on Operation Anchorage/The Pitt and considerably longer I would recommend buying this pack rather than the Op/Pitt one for certain as it will extend your enjoyment of FO3 for a fair number of playing hours (depending on whether you rush around completing everything or take your time to explore).So overall I'd say that if you enjoyed FO3, as I did, and want more this is a 4.5*. However if you are bored with FO3 I'm not sure this will be for you as it doesn't really add anything new in the way of game play just more of the same.Explore and enjoy.
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29.8.2010

This game is a masterpiece. Totally engrossing and utterly beautiful.This Game of the Year edition is my first venture into the Fallout world, and I was a tiny bit nervous about the negative reports concerning the freezing issues. Well, i've played the game all the way through, including the extra content, and I have not experienced any such effects. No freezing, no skips, nothing.Now, I take care of my ps3. I keep it cool, I keep it on a raised surface, I regularly clean the dust from the vents at the back, and I never run it for more than 4 hours at a time.Now i'm not saying that all the people who report problems with their games don't look after their consoles,but I certainly believe that looking after your console helps games run at their optimum level.Anyways, make of that what you will.The game itself though, is a joy to behold. The storyline is genuinely affecting. It will play with your emotions, and on many occasions you will find yourself in the midst of realistic moral decisions. The outcome of which will certainly effect which path the story takes.The control system and experience/level-up system appears very complex on the surface, and if you are relatively inexperienced with role-play games, then the learning curve may seem a little steep. But persevere, and it will all slot into place.Some people will be put off by the First person perespective. I nearly was. But after only a short time, it becomes clear as to why this setting was employed as the game's default. It sucks you in more, it makes you feel part of the action, rather than simply controlling it from above.A unique selling point that needs mentioning is the VATS system. It basically allows you to slow-motion time, and target specific parts of enemies' bodies. At worst, this is hugely comical, and at best it is absolutely essential for defeating certain foes.It's pointless for me to go into the plot. Doing that would ruin the experience, and wouldn't lend anything to this review.This game is of such high quality that the setting is almost irrelevant when deciding whether to buy it or not.Suffice to say that the game is set in a post-nuclear war era of Earth's history, populated by groups of human settlers, and sporadic bands of various monsters/creatures. You don't need to know any more than that.In my view, if you're after a game that will suck you into another world, this is it.If you want a game that effects you emotionally, and makes you think, this is it.If you want a game that will take you months to complete fully (elite), this is it.If however you want a game that requires zero intelligence to play, and where you just simply shoot stuff, then move on. This is a game for people with a brain.Buy this game, it'll be the best thing you play all year, and it'll remind you why you got into gaming in the first place.
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