Happy first annual RevieWednesday readers!
This week is: Fallout 3!
Fallout 3 is a game by Bethesda softworks, a sequel built after Bethesda acquired the small company Black Isle studios, makers of the first two Fallout games. Bethesda then revamped it to the max, with a revamped version of their Elder Scrolls IV engine. Some fans of the series were angry, saying Fallout 2 was infinitely better. Those fans, were wrong. Let's VATS some Super Mutants in the nards in this review.
The post apocalyptic RPG starts off in a "Vault", an underground city built to withstand nuclear warfare. It's 200 years later and...oh, wait, didn't I read about something like this before? Or see a movie? Nevermind. Point is, you go through a long ish childhood sequence, then escape from the underground niceness into the hellhole wastes.
As the games goes on, you end up doing some really fun stuff. Taking out a sniper in a town of landmines, deciding whether zombies or bigots occupy a hotel, and don't forget the lovely DLC content.
This game's karma system and choices warrant so many different playthroughs it's ridiculous. There are so many sides to so many quests it's extremely fun to play it over and over until you've experienced it all.
The fighting system is familiar, yet at the same time all new. It's based off Oblivion's, yet plays very differently. It is almost flawless.
The storyline is good, well written and fun. The side missions are even written well, and have their own mythology.
I even enjoyed the music of this game. Three Dog's GNR played non-stop on my Pip-Boy 3000 and I often found myself singing along as I used VATS to blow a ghoul's head off. Fun story: My grandpa once left me in the car for 20 minutes once in the middle of my playthrough, and I switched his satellite radio subconsciously to the 40's station and began listening. He came back giving me odd looks. Needless to say, I stopped listening to GNR after that.
FALLOUT 3 is the BEST game I have ever played. Ever. I wait, holding my video game breath for New Vegas. F03 gets 10 nuclear bomb-ed Megatons, out of 10
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