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JoN- · 2008-12-02 23:07:04

FALLOUT 3
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Fallout 3 pulls out what every game coming out needs - a compelling single-player story, great side quests and all the badies you can find. And, when looking exactly like oblivion, how can it not? The only good side - I prefer sci-fi shooters to medieval sword battles.

Now, of course - this game also has the problems games should not. To begin with, it has issues with "freezing when someone signs on". Now, I'm not entirely sure WHY this happens but it can be prevented. Just disable notifications. DONE. Next few problems include frame rate drops and the occasional freeze. Not too bad though but defiantly should not be in a "complete" game. (maybe a beta, but defiantly not a complete).

Back to the good aspects of Fallout. Fallout is at least 100 hours long (when including side quests) and without the "run to" part of it, you can make that into 40000 hours easily. There are TONS of side quests, from completing a book for the supply shop owner to finding partners. And these partners all range from dogs to humans to robots. There's lots of variety in clothes, weapons, etc....

The only thing that bothered me with the game (and although this does not affect the overall aspect of the game), I didn't really enjoy that guns would break. Like, I found the FATMAN and after using the god-damn thing only 3 times it broke on me - sucks, I know. But what are you going to do? Well repair it of course.

What really caught me into the game is the little things that tie the whole thing together. Now, the music may sound old but when your fighting off those mutant zombies and all you hear is "mighty mighty man" going off, you can only enjoy it. Not to mention the entire "caps" idea. Yea, thats right - bottle caps are your money.

All issues mentioned above were fixed as well as trophies have been added

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OVERALL SCORE: 9 /10 [Originally 8.5 before patch]

ISSUES: FREEZING, FRAME RATE

* Trophy Support [Through Patch]
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Last edited by JoN- (2008-12-18 18:22:51)

BCapper92 · 2008-12-03 18:20:55

Nice review, i was thinking about renting...you just made up my mind.

BTW. 'Not too bad though but defiantly should NOT? be in a "complete" game. (maybe a beta, but defiantly not a complete).'

BTW 2. A review section xD.

JoN- · 2008-12-03 18:35:28

yea, i saw it randomly when i signed on...thought id post my first review here.
hopefully if people start to like my reviews ill defiantly write more.

btw, thanks for that mistake i made

JoN- · 2008-12-04 20:20:23

--Sorry for the double post--
I just beat FALLOUT 3, main story done in 17 hours. Still standing with initial rating.

Mick · 2008-12-04 21:04:38

AWESOME game. will prolly be stuck on it till 5 in the morning. ah the life of not working its great but theres no money.

ERIFNOMI · 2008-12-05 13:07:26

Am I the only one that thinks this game really hard?

Mick · 2008-12-05 13:51:03

i did untill i found out about V.A.T.S

ERIFNOMI · 2008-12-05 15:00:58

That aim thing? How did you not know about that. It's like a big deal about this game. I find traveling through the wastes hard. Raiders get me a lot. I can't afford much ammo.

JoN- · 2008-12-05 17:42:01

You can avoid a lot of raiders by "sneaking" and walking around them. Helps a lot.

AND don't travel at night, lots of raiders and mutants hang in the waste land at night.

Pooky_187 · 2008-12-18 02:30:28

think you need to update this review now JoN- since it has fixed sum of its freezing probs. & now has trophies

JoN- · 2008-12-18 18:18:22

will post an edit at the top

sunsetzthugg · 2009-01-27 22:02:12

I travel at night all the time it makes my life easier because i have %100 sneak skill. BTW DO NOT FORGET THE LINCOLNS REPEATOR! it is pure awesomeness and can kill any enemy in 1 sneaked headshot ( besides behemoths). Also i know your going to say that the alien blaster is the best but its not because you only find ammo once in the game. Last thing A321's [thats his name right] rifle made my 1st play through a breeze since i got it right before raven rock. this weapon also PWNS as much as the LINCOLNS REPEATOR only that ammo is easier to find

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