Fallout 3 review

First of all i got it on PS3 so don't kill me.

What is it about?

You play as yourself - set a few hundred years in the future. During these few hundred years, China and the USA are at war and nuclear bombs are dropped around the USA. Those outside were killed, those who took shelter in buildings (such as the museum of history) were safe but then the radiation began to mutate (or ghoulify) them by skin dropping off and hair not growing with the side effect that they seem to live forever unless they are physically killed.

However, a company called Vaultech built several vaults for people to remain sealed in, in case of such disasters. You and your father live in Vault 101. But one day - 19 years into your life- your father escapes the vault and you must search for him in Washington's Capital Wasteland.

What type of game is it?

Depending on how you want to play it, it is a first person or third person RPG. You are simply given a huge map for you to complete story missions, side missions and live a life in such a unique landscape.

Good Features:

• Gigantic map allows for a lot of exploring and every area is unique.
• The fact you can play the game at your own pace with hundreds of other objectives to complete, places to find and buildings to scavenge.
• Combat is unique with the VAT system which allows you to freeze time and choose tactical attacks. Each style of enemy is unique. Mirelurks are shelled thus hard to damage where as supermutants have a large amount of strength and damage resistance.
• Weaponry: there is a large range of weaponry from Lead Pipes to Mini Nukes but they do not last. Combining with same types of weapons or taking it to a trader will allow them to fix them with the same going for armor. There is also the bonus that if you have the schematics, you can search for common (or occasionally uncommon) items to build special weapons.
• Karma System: You choose if you want to be good or bad. Rewards come to those who are good. But some people will want to kick your arse if your good, and some times being bad is fun. Helping people, giving and donating, pick-pocketing, insulting or mindless killing sprees, be as good or bad as you want.

The Bad

• There are a large amount of glitches. Spawning causes problems so that you land in the middle of a group of enemies after fast travelling to a raider camp (which you forget about, trust me with the amount of places to discover you forget a lot!).
• Occasionally if you have an NPC that helps you such as Dogmeat (a dog you save) or a human they may kill friendly targets unprovoked.
• If you don't have patience then you won't enjoy this game. The first few quests take a while as they are tutorials. And also travelling takes a while until you've visited a place you want to get to then you can fast travel.

Overall

THE BEST game i have ever played. No word of a lie. If you complete it, you will want to complete it again for everything you've missed and to get the opposite karma for totally different out comes.

My Rating :10/10

Chain letters

We all hate them. The people who read them hate them. The people who believe them hate them because they will be stabbed by "a sycotik killer hu lyks stabbin ppl". The people who open their inbox to 20 emails or texts thinking oo i'm loved or uh oh somethings gone wrong to find out 5 people have sent 20 chain letters in total.

Now i thought emails were bad enough. your waiting for the confirmation email of some prouct you want so you know its sent and you open your email and suddenly if you send 20 emails you somehow get a wish or another nights safe sleep from the killer clown.

But then theres text messages stalking you! Suddenly your on a bus and in twenty minutes the killer clowns going to jump out and kill you while no ones looking.

About a month later your texting 400 texts a day and jumping at the sound of a gnats fart whilst you return home to the room where you sit on a computer rocking back and forth sending thousands of emails - PARANOIA.

If you believe them that is.

For the rest of us its a nuisance. So we should campaign. All those who want start chain messages must do so via morsecode.

Those disobeying must be subjected to a real killer clown, and not insane clown posse..... i mean a grizzly bear in clowns face paint.

Heat Wave

So Yorkshire is now enduring a heatwave.

Don't I know it. One of my jobs a couple of days ago was to see if the Outside Navigation lights on the bridges were working. difficult task seeing as its bright sunshine so its hard to tell.

Fortunately the jobs i've had over the past few days haven't been Physical hard work. Except lowering a lampost.

Also a plus is i'm getting a little bit of a tan now. One problem, my left arm is becoming darker than my right since i don't drive the van.

One question i have thought is this: Why do i still see people wearing coats and jackets?

I know when i used to be a kid i was bad for it but jesus not that bad.

I look forward to taking a couple of days off next week and enjoying the rain that'll most likely coincide with it.

Oh and don't forget to check out my forum : The Community

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