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Bob Blaser
United States
Wildwood
Missouri
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I am a huge fan of the Fallout franchise. I loved Fallout 1, liked Fallout 2 and was really, REALLY looking forward to Fallout 3.
I played the heck out of it - probably between 90 and 100 hours all told.
I liked it, but it could have been better IMHO.
I did not like the end - I felt like it was rush-finished to get it on the shelves before the holiday season.
It was buggy - it crashed many times on my machine (I am using Windows XP)
I was really hoping for more and I felt like the Besesda team missed some opporitunities to do more with the game world and the story. There were a lot of things from the previous stories that we either omitted or partly done.
The graphics were nice. The voice acting was solid.
Most of the lore was true to the originals... but...
They didn't nail it.
Gameplay got repetitive.
There were some illogical inconsistancies.
You can't go everywhere and do everything. In fact, there are only a few buildings that you can actually go in and explore.
VATS is ok, but not like the turn-based combat that F1 & F2 had.
You spend time creating your character's face, but then hardly ever see it.
Overall, I liked the game, but I came away feeling a let down.
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Shake,Rattle, & Roll!
United States
Connecticut
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Maybe Fallout: New Vegas will be better.
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Benjamin Davis
Australia
Summer Hill
NSW
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Overall, I agree with you. However...
Quote: You spend time creating your character's face, but then hardly ever see it.
I disagree about this. I see mine practically every time I shoot someone!
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Benjamin Davis
Australia
Summer Hill
NSW
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I didn't have any issues with The Pitt, but Anchorage would frequently decide that a frame per 5 seconds was a perfectly reasonable pace, which was not fun.
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Krzysztof Zięba
Poland
Kraków
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A tad shortish for a review, but I mostly agree.
F3 just didn't do it for me, but it's probably because I dislike open-world type RPG's like Oblivion or Morrowind. I prefer a more story-driven gameplay with some limitations, but ensuring that you don't get bored with just running around and getting attacked all the time, which I found quite irritating.
I understand this is a post-apocalyptic, very dangerous world, but what's the point in letting a player explore anywhere he wants when he's a noob and is going to get owned by anything that jumps him? No sense in that at all...
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Benjamin Davis
Australia
Summer Hill
NSW
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You're already reasonably well-armed and -armoured by the time you leave the vault, so you can take on a fair number of things right from then.
Besides which, getting in over your head is fun!
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Yours Truly,
United States
Gainesville
Florida
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StormShadow wrote:
VATS is ok, but not like the turn-based combat that F1 & F2 had.
I'm a boardgamegeek who loved Fallout 1. What's VATS? Is it specific to Fallout 3 or is it a videogame term?
Thanks!
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Benjamin Davis
Australia
Summer Hill
NSW
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It's specific to Fallout 3. Stands for Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System.
It means you can pause time, target things, queue up shots then restart time to begin the shooting. It means you can apply your character's skill rather than the game being first-person making it a strict first-person shooter.
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