Fallout 3 E3 Previews
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Bethesda doesn't want this to be a shooter - they want it to be a role-playing game. They're still ironing out the combat system, but your chances of doing something good - a critical hit, a hit to a body part - will be better using VATS. Also, even in (twitch) mode, your skill still affects your accuracy and damage with a weapon.
Plus, when using VATS, you get cinematic! Instead of being completely focused in the first person's must shoot it out with mutant, you get a brief dramatic movie of your actions as you fight it out!
While the other is at RPGFan:
Not only is the Vault created with care, but all of the graphics found within Fallout 3 are as well. Once emerging from Vault 101, players are introduced to a world ripped to shreds, with the futuristic world portrayed in the 1950s given a grisly makeover. All of it is rendered in real time and looks absolutely amazing. Bethesda has created environments that can be changed on the fly, so not only does the devastation look amazing, but all of the damaged caused on the fly looks absolutely real. Now, environments looking fantastic in a Bethesda game aren't exactly new: both Morrowind and Oblivion had fantastical environments, though the characters themselves looked a bit off; not so in Fallout 3. Characters look just as good as they do in any other top-tier game, if not better. Fans of Bloody Mess shouldn't worry, either, as enemies in Fallout 3 fall apart just fine.
