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