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 Fallout 3 - Best RPG of 2009 ? September 17, 2009
M. Sawyer (NC)
This game is awesome!!! It is a very extensive world!!! The storyline is Great!!! The game combines all the best of an Adventure game with a Shooting game and a Role-Playing game!!! The Graphics are what you would expect with todays Hi-Def Graphics and the audio Matches it!!! Once you totally own the game, you think to yourself okay time to trade-in. Nope. This game has in my opinion one of the best online DLC that takes your gameplay to new Heights, there are 5 additional campaigns to choose from to add on. All the DLC add-ons are roughly 10 bucks but add-on another 12-20 hours of gameplay.
Awesome. A must have. September 15, 2009
Mike (Boise ID)
I don't think there is much I would change about this game. It improves upon the oblivion engine, and the story and environment are great. I did not play any of the previous fallout games, though I was familiar with them. There is plenty of side questing and exploring to do in this, and I thought the difficulty was just right. You could probably beat the game fairly quickly if you just followed the story quests, so I'd recommend exploring and completing the side quests. The VATS system offers a nice variety of FPS play and RPG play (as well as great cut scenes, you'll see what I mean when you play it). I haven't played any of the expansions, because personally I feel that there is enough game play here to warrant more than one play through (similar to oblivion). I would recommend this game to gamers of all types.
 Fallout 3 is Overrated Get Fable 2 Instead - Choose Beauty over Depressing September 13, 2009
Travis Cole (Carrollton, TX United States)
1 out of 20 found this review helpful
Fable 2 is now down in price and ready for the purchase. Fallout 3 is overrated. Most people who rated this game high did so based on the hours they felt obligated to play it. They said, "I played it more than any other game this year, so it must be the best." I spent a lot of time scraping snow off my sidewalk in the winter but that doesn't mean I would rate it my favorite activity of the year. Fallout 3 is made to force you to play grueling hours hoping to enjoy the game and feeling guilty if you don't give it Game Of The Year. What a load of bunk. The shooting was broken. The voice acting is bad. Get Fable 2. It won't last as long, but you won't feel pangs of regret for the hours wasted you will never get back. Fable 2 is bright, uplifting, and enjoyable. What is so wrong with that? Do we have to have ugly greys to feel like a real gamer? It just doesn't make sense. If you have a PS3, then Western RPGs are few and it might make sense for you, but if you are an Xbox 360 owner, don't waste your time. Please!
Fun fun fun September 11, 2009
William Hellmuth (Los Angeles, CA USA)
If you liked Oblivian, you'll like this game. It's super open ended, and a lot of fun!
 The apocalypse couldn't be any better September 10, 2009
Kody Boye (Idaho)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Picture this -- post-apocalyptic America. Wastelands extending for miles on end, water tainted with radiation, humans mutated into feral, zombie-like creatures and animals changed into horrible, freakish beings. What few survive live in Vaults, locked away from the tainted world that threatens to kill you just by breathing its air.
Welcome to Fallout 3.
Beginning in the beginning, as is usual for all life, your character is born into one of the Vaults, a safe haven where the human survivors have locked themselves away from the outside world. Here, you create your future character with a simple yet expansive creation system, manipulating your facial structure, your hair style, and even your skin tone with a futuristic machine that allows parents to see what their children will look like as adults.
But with every beginning comes an end. Sadly, this end is the death of your mother.
As the years go on, and as you learn to walk, you find a book near a toy chest after cleverly escaping your playpen. Here, you pick your stats, manipulating them with a child's storybook about life and what it means to be human. On your tenth birthday, you learn to shoot your first gun; on your sixteenth, you take a test that governs who you will be for the rest of your life; and on your eighteenth, all hell breaks loose. Your father has fled to the wastelands, and the man who governs Vault 13 has killed your father's best friend, a man you've known since you were born.
With little choice, you make the biggest decision of your life--you run past the guards attempting to stop you, or you kill them in cold blood.
Welcome to the rest of your life.
What awaits you?
Here lies the world of Fallout 3 at your wake. After leaving the vault, you are forced to travel to the closest town possible--Megaton. What appears to be a huge, circular hunk of scrap metal is actually a city. Inside, you begin your journey. While you look for your father, asking civilians and higher authorities if they've seen him pass through, you slowly begin to realize that there is more than just one choice to make in this game. You think someone has something you need to know? Trick or threaten them into saying it. Someone pulls a gun out and kills someone for no reason, you kill them back, even if they mean nothing to you. And if a somewhat-humanized ghoul is minding his own business, shoot him, or leave him be. Morality is a plus in this game, and herein lies one of the greatest beauties of Fallout 3. The ability to be whoever you want is the greatest freedom you can have in this game.
What makes Fallout so amazing, other than the clever AI and the amazingly-detailed world, is the fact that there's so much to do. Because of the fact that the world is so expansive, there's literally hundreds upon thousands of places to visit. With towns harboring survivors, bandits, and creatures, and with locations created by nature and destroyed by the affects of war, you could literally spend hours just searching the world. And, really, why not do that? The world is beautiful enough to do it. But what the environment hides behind its terrible beauty is what pulls the story along, and what makes it a beautiful thing to realize.
PROS:
-- The game is open-ended. You can play as a good guy, a bad good, a savior, a rebel, or play in between and stay factionless. Regardless, every individual action shapes the people around you, and makes you known for your triumphs or your exploits.
-- The graphics. Post-apocalyptic America could never be so beautiful, yet so terrifying. Textures abound in this game. The rocks don't just loop over and over, the corpses of the dead often stay in place for a long while, and the water seems to move in its own natural direction.
-- The AI. Enemies are extremely intelligent. They'll run, pick up weapons, resort to tactics, and trick other wayward creatures into attacking you. While you're trying to kill a group of Mirelurks that have come out of the water, that raider is retreating to higher ground to pick you off with that rifle you dropped. You think it's broken? That raider fixed it, and he has you in his sights.
-- The people, creatures and things. Without looking at anything, I can literally think of over two-dozen enemies off the top of my head. Mutated rats, flying beetles, Mirelurks, raiders, ghouls--both feral, humanized and radiated--super mutants. There is no shortage of enemies you can face, and no shortage of people you can't meet.
-- The combat. Switching from over-the-shoulder third-person and first-person has an amazing advantage. You need to look through something through the eyes of you beholder, then do it. Want to keep track of enemies all around you? Switch to third person. The only complaint I have is that there is no instant-weapon switch.
-- Weapons. There are hundreds of weapons to use. From pool sticks, to baseball bats, to shotguns and rocket launchers, you can use almost anything the environment has to offer you.
Sadly, though the pros outweigh the cons, there are a few things that bothered me.
-- Character customization. It is extremely difficult to create a good-looking character. Even the presets look bad. I could say that's an understatement, but there's just no easy way to make a good-looking character on the 360. I can't say the same for the PC version, but don't expect your character to look like the dane or dame of the wasteland. I will, however, say the different options in terms of beards and hair is nice, although they're nothing like what they could be.
-- The lack of alternative storylines. Basically, the whole story is trying to find your dad. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it makes you step back and wonder just exactly what kind of character you are trying to create if you're still trying to find your dad. Why would someone who cares about nothing but himself care about his father, who ran away without telling him where he went? Herein lies a small, if someone annoying, fault. There is only one set story, and because of that, you are always reaching for the same objective, no matter what kind of character you play as.
-- Glitches. There are a few minor, if annoying, glitches. Sometimes, when you stash your items in a chest, they'll randomly disappear the next time you open it. This is extremely frustrating, especially when you've stacked all your spare items you want to sell inside.
-- Difficulty. Even on the lower ends of the difficulty, there are times when you are forced to absolutely run for your life in order to get out of a tough situation. I remember coming out of an area with a large group of super mutants and literally having to spend a half-hour getting out of the area because I was too low on health to fight back. Sometimes, you can't even get out of these situations--you simply have to start over from your last savepoint.
-- The ending. Without spoiling the ending, I'll simply say that you spend all this time working up the crescendo to the final part of the story, then are left feeling empty after it's all over. There's only two set ways to end the story, despite the morality choices you made earlier in the game, and what's worse is that there are no cutscenes. There IS something there, yes, but it only changes depending on your morality. Despite the fact that there were beautifully-rendered cutscenes throughout the game, there were none in the ending. I felt cheated because I'd just gone through a whole story, only to be left with a slideshow-styled ending. What's worse is that even if you choose a more open ending, you cannot keep exploring post-apocalyptic America.
All in all, Fallout 3 is an amazing game, both as an RPG and as an action game itself. Sure, I don't recommend it to people who like action-packed shooters, but it's a story that even a non-RPG fan can get into if only they allow themselves a little time. And despite its nuances, it's one of the best games I've played in a long time.
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