Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world – radiation, Super Mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. From Vault-Tec, America’s First Choice in Post Nuclear Simulation.
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One of my favorite games of all time. This and New Vegas will always hold a special place in my heart. They both sparked my interest in RPGs/open world games to begin with. The attention to detail and amount of **** to do/find and even still find to this day impresses me to no end. Bethesda really was on fire with this game and I will always consider it their most remarkable and well-crafted work. The only real downfall with this game are the occasional bugs - though they are very infrequent for me, it's still an issue sometimes when the game just deactivates itself after going through a door quickly to a loading screen. NPCs/enemies will glitch out at times too - but that's honestly synonymous with Fallout at this point. All in all, Fallout 3 is an immersive game with an astronomical amount of random encounters and some damn good DLCs as well.
good
fun
Плохо. Могло быть и получше.
despite massive plot holes and huge flaws in writing, the game is actually very good, especially with mods.
Do I have to say anymore?
The game itself is a gorgeous work, no doubt about it. But there are some things that glitch the game inside! Monsters: someone are ridiculous, and the ragdolls are somehow inefficient. Story: some parts of the plot are so dumb... some others are fantastic. Gameplay: generally perfect, anyway in some spots there are glitches and bugs. The weapons: some are excellent (balistics, shapes...) some others are horrible, even in the phisics.
Fallout world brought back to life, in a first person perspective and with shooter elements. Action-RPG. That's what can be said by looking at the game for the first time and that still holds after playing it.
After 100+ hours playing it, what else can I say about it?
Fallout 3 feels a lot like Oblivion with guns.
Fallout 3 is long, very long. And extremely repetitive. Whatever your quest is, as smart as it can look at the begining, it will always end up with a boring gunfight. And after hundred gunfights in Fallout 3, all I can say is: they all felt exactly the same.
The world is large, 99% grey, and graphics are very repetitive. Only the main quest and DLCs have, sometimes, original graphics.
Fallout 3 is average as an RPG. Level cap occurs after playing maybe 1/3rd of the game. Except for lockpicking, repairing and "science" (hacking, that is), there is no feeling of progression. Basically, all the fights are the same whatever your level is. As said above, quests are meh. Main story is pretty much the only developed story and it's very average, with totally awful parts (eg the ridiculous ending of your way through the Enclave HQ).
Fallout 3 is not a good FPS. The engine is not smooth at all. You can look in your inventory at any time during a fight and the gamme will pause: repair your weapon, change your armor, heal yourself, go look at your map and go back to fight whenever you want. The VATS system (pauses the game and lets you aim at any part of your enemy for those who never played a Fallout) is too powerful, and kills the tension too.
Your adrenaline level will never go up while playing Fallout 3.
Fallout 3 is not better than Oblivion concerning discretion, meaning it's average.
DLCs: Point Lookout is ok, the Pitt not too bad, Broken Steel brings nothing really new, Anchorage looks ok but is just a terrible FPS and Mothership Zeta is the same, in worse. So, Point Lookout is the only one worth, with a bit of Shivering Isles feel, to keep with the Oblivion comparison, but really no place in Fallout 3 feels as good as Shivering Isles.
Conclusion: Fallout 3 is a very long, very repetitive, very average FPS/RPG. (Way better) alternatives: Morrowind for very long action RPG, STALKER series for FPS/RPG in post-apo setup.
Reviews... Reviews never change :)). Jokes aside, Fallout 3 is an icon in first-person shooter rpg's and comparing with most survival/open world(ish) first-person shooters out there, fallout 3 is a blast from the past, even though at times it can be rather clunky and have some immersion issues, which have been since corrected by various mods and add-ons, and needless to say, the emergence of Fallout 4, where most of Bethesda's past "mistakes" or stuff that wasn't added due to overcomplications, which is good by me, but it put a basis for first person shooters with an open world environment to follow. And also the balancing of comedic/casual pre-war scenery and post-apocalyptic horror and human terror, it just merges beautifully. I wouldn't give it top marks for graphics, but if we're referring to a game that was launched back in 2009 and is still played by a throng of fans, it really means something, and in such cases of fandom, graphics might be pushed aside, and for 2009, in my personal opinion, it was looking good, not to mention the GOTY version and all the DLC's combined made it a very good game, in my opinion. Storyline/gameplay - top marks for those, hands down. Sound and OST - Not bad either, and the music is downright AMAZING. And to sum it up real quick, all of these points I made rightfully makes me to give it a 10.