The Top 7 Best Beginnings
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Every RPG protagonist starts off as a slow-witted, limp-armed sissy. Molding that ineffectual lump of clay into a hero strong, intelligent, agile, lucky and all the rest is usually a dreary chore filled with never ending menus and snooze inducing statistics. Fallout 3, by placing you inside the hero from the very first moment of his or her existence, offers a better way.
Want to play a noble do-gooder? Behave like one. Share your gifts with the other kids and speak politely to elders. Want a nastier personality? Then act the part. Lie to your teachers, pick fights with your buddies and steal from your father's desk. Seamlessly and invisibly, the game pays attention to your choices and shapes your character. No numbers necessary. And when you eventually emerge from that Vault, blinking in the brand new sun, Fallout 3 feels much less like an RPG and much more like your own personal epic.
