Fallout 3 Reviews

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Written by BuckGB on November 5th, 2008

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Fallout 3 portrays a world that no one wants to live in, where there are difficult moral decisions to make and the line between good and evil is extremely blurry. Before long, I found myself killing strangers for Stimpacks and stealing ammunition from Merchants, all the while actually trying to justify it to myself. I usually try to make choices in games similar to what I believe I would do in reality, and by the end of Fallout 3 I was trading slaves and detonating nuclear warheads in cities for a warm bed to sleep in. Fallout 3 gives an incredibly bleak outlook on our future and humanity, all the while roping me in closer than just about any title has in the past few years, despite its faults. It's a game everyone should play, if not just to find out who they really are, and to learn what life would be like if we finally had to duck and cover.

For all that, it still remains a superb game and a magnificent achievement. I could go on, but when you are reviewing a game that makes exploration and discovery so much fun it'd be almost criminal to start spoiling things for you lot before you can find them. There are so many things big and small to potentially discuss that I could fill out at least 5,000 words and then keep going, but I'll l sum it up inside a few sentences for you: Fallout 3 is the game of the year, and you need to buy it. Vast, beautiful and packed full of quests, characters and incidents to come across, it's around fifty hours of entertainment with huge replay value loaded in for good measure. Cheers, Bethesda, you've just given me my game of the year. and a serious case of insomnia.

While fighting has its place, it's the quests that will occupy much of players' time. If they are as plentiful and engaging as they were in Oblivion, Fallout 3 will provide hours of play.

And, as with Oblivion, it's probably safe to expect expansion opportunities.

Desperate, scared and alone, you may want to shy away from this dark bleak world and hide in a far-from-perfect fallout vault. But with a vast world to explore and many charismatic survivors to meet, a Vault Dweller should take his or her chances in the elements of this radioactive Wild West.

Bethesda has done an excellent job at creating a living and wheezing post apocalypse world. Combining RPG elements and gory action orientated combat flawlessly. Fallout 3 is definitely one of the better bargains you'll come across for years to come. A single playthrough can take anywhere between 25 to 100 hours to complete and in addition to that you can always go through everything again and double that time. It may not be the best sequel to Fallout 2, but it's no doubt an amazing game. Don't complain.

If you're an RPG/adventure fan who likes their games deep and rewarding, then Fallout 3 is a must-have purchase, pure and simple so go get it, now! If I had the casting vote, this really would be Game of the Year 'nuff said.

Fallout 3 is a remarkable game.one that deserves a place in any Xbox 360 owner's gaming library. Many years from now, when the Xbox 360 is as obsolete as the original Nintendo is today, I'll still remember fondly my time spent with the game, and regard it as one of the great landmarks in gaming history. The scope is so immensely vast that it's almost unfathomable that Bethesda was able to pull it off. As a final selling point, the game is highly replayable, as there are so many possible hours of enjoyment to be had, whether it's simply playing through the main game for the first time, trying out a new character type, or playing through once good and then a second time as bad.

Fallout 3 gets my highest level of recommendation, while also thrusting itself to the top of my list for Best Game of the Year.

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