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I gave this as a gift to my boyfriend last Christmas. He really enjoyed playing the game and I enjoyed watching him.
Some controls are hard to adapt to and its introduction is very easy to grasp. This game is fun and is somewhat like Oblivion futurized. I would definitely recommend buying this game.
The gameplay has everything you'd want from a save anywhere anytime feature to mostly non-respawning enemies to adjustable difficulty. Then it took off and everything else I've played seems boring in comparison, and I thought Oblivion, San Andres, etc. The variety of places and people you meet, choices you make, guilt you feel, this isn't even a game, it's like jacking into the matrix. After a year of still wondering what there was to be discovered on that disk, I broke down and bought it. I can't wait to buy and explore the add-on's.I just can't believe I tried it twice and almost missed out the most rock-solid gaming experience out there. were all incredible.
The only downside is if you don't have enough time to invest, you might lose sleep over wondering whatelse there is out there in the wasteland. I rented this twice and never got more than an hour into it. It's so hard to get momentum and I was overwhelmed beyond belief for the first 15 hours. The exploration music is fantastic and the graphics are rediculous.The size of the game boggles the mind, you'd think it took ten years to create.
Because here you're free to be your own man. Get into the slave trade business, or shoot your way through the traders' encampment and free the slaves.The only legitimate complaints I know of for the game are the controls with the VATS targeting system, but you don't even really have to use it. They roam the Wastes, pillaging like metal-head versions of pirates, and you don't like them. Personally, I found Operation Anchorage to be boring and linear.
And I don't mean the ominous background tracks made for atmosphere, but the 1940s hits played from the game's "Galaxy News Radio". Sometimes the game doesn't even feel like an RPG. Point Lookout is a valuable addition. Sometimes it's an action game, sometimes it's a shooter, but it's always an adventure.The graphics are. Everything might be ugly, but it's ugly in a really good looking way. Well feel free to wander around, picking them off from on-high with a rifle, sneaking in to set up mines before tossing in a grenade to stir up some carnage, or put on your power armor and run in, guns blazing.There's a big town, the first one you're likely to come across, with an undetonated atomic bomb sitting in the middle. I haven't played Mothership Zeta, so I can't comment.
I, being a youngster, never even heard any of this music. terrific. In fact it's often better and more fun not to. And you're fully capable of doing so, climbing to the top of Tenpenny Tower, and watching the mushroom cloud in the distance as you vaporize the city, and all its residences. I'm trying to think of a celebrity to use as an example, but feel that would be in bad tastes.The facial animations can tend to be a little robotic, but the voice acting is top-notch and lively, from everyone.
Maybe out of strong sense of justice, or maybe one of them just looked at you funny. If you're on the fence about whether or not to buy, I'd say buy. The Pitt was similar, but with a better story and an uglier world to explore. Scurge of the wastes, savior, or anywhere in between. Sure, you can tackle the main quest and it's decent. Broken Steel, Mothership Zeta, Point Lookout, The Pitt, and Operation: Anchorage. Not linear in the way that there's only one single path and it can only be traversed one way, but linear in the way that the game can baby you and keep you on the right track, even if you're given a decent scope to explore.Well it turns out that I was just looking for the right massive, open game.
And in a game with so much dialog, that's very welcome.Speaking of sound, I was surprised to end up really loving the soundtrack. There's a positively huge world to explore, and even more underground.Lets say you have some kind of vendetta against the raiders. But somehow it manages to be pretty anyway. But I only recommend Broken Steel and Point Lookout (which are offered together on a buyable disc if you don't have access to XBOX Live). The standalone Fallout 3 is the most powerful and by comparison the add-ons fall short in general.But in all, I found Fallout 3 to be a fantastic game, in my top-ten list of all time. And Broken Steel continues the main story and raises the level cap. But the real treat is the exploration.
You can take it on as a mission from the town sheriff to disarm it, or have the mysterious Mister Burke rope you in to rigging it up to blow. Sure everyhing's grainy and brown and dark and bleak. And just a few days ago I started a new file.Speaking of add-on packs, there are five. And in a game-playing career of somewhere around fourteen years, that's saying something. I'll admit, that previously I've been drawn to games with a fairly linear gameplay style. It's all up to you. But after having it as a constant companion in my fares across the Wastes I grew to love it.My first time through Fallout 3 I played for over 60 hours, and didn't even do everything (keep in mind I did add four of the add-on packs).
My only CON is that I got it on XBOX 360 instead of PS3 so I'll probably burn up my XBOX due to my marathon sessions of playing it. Bethesda has created a fully developed world that deserves a ton of praise. Even then you can never do everything as one character so the possibilities are endless and guarantee replay value.AGAIN, if they had stopped there, it would have been spectacular.as they say, BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. Want to snipe a super mutant in the head from afar. Just hit the right trigger.The locations and side missions seem endless. The game IS a shooter and does it very well. The option to use VATS when you want to enables you to "pick your poison" and play the game how you want, when you want. But then there's the experience points, karma, perks, leveling up, etc.
Oh, it was for me, and so much more than I had thought.Frankly, the game is amazing. The story and characters are believable. There is so much to do and the atmosphere is unmatched in any game I've seen. Everything from cannibalizing corpses and breaking into computers, to building new weapons and becoming a cyborg becomes available as the game continues. As many hours that can be spent on this game, these options ensure that the player will want to come back again and again. I've seen complaints about the music but I think the contrast of 50s "happy" music with the post-apocalyptic nightmare-scape is a creepy match made in heaven (or hell).
The VATS system is one of the greatest things ever in a video game, I think. There is now downloadable content that raises the XP cap creating more room for character growth and more stories to experience. Might want to use VATS. I'm surprised there are so many CONs on other people's reviews. But it is also an amazing RPG.
Want to smash a radroach with a bat. Since the game has been out for a while, the price has dropped to below $30, making this surely the best value per gaming hour you will ever have. I cannot say enough good things about this game and how they managed to get it all into one disc must be a technological feat. Maybe my review title is overstated, but only slightly (since I haven't played every game that has been released in the last decade.).I heard a ton of positive reviews about this game but it didn't seem to be my "cup of tea." But after playing Far Cry 2 and getting addicted to its gameplay and story, I thought Fallout 3 might be for me. Without it, Fallout 3 would be a sub-par shooter; yet if it was VATS-only the game would be terribly slow-paced.
And you are never out of 1st person (or 3rd person if you choose, at will), from the moment your character is born so you really experience the world as your character does.If they had stopped there, it would have been a remarkable game.
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