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Fallout 3 Review by D3solat0r

Developer: Bethesda Game Studios and 2K games
Engine: Gamebryo engine
Platforms: PC,Xbox 360 and Playstation 3
Genre: Action Role-playing


What made me buy this product?:
Well not every game needs a reason to be bought does it?.But if it does then for this game i would say I brought this game because of its trailer.It was really tempting with the old bus and the broken and the as far as eye can see environment.Also the Brotherhood soldier is one of the main points in my opinion.The suit he is wearing is really awesome so I thought "hmm why not play and see how it is?".Also not only the trailer but I have seen its prequels get great scores.Never had a chance to play them so I play the third game now.The graphics have really improved from the 1st game.Not improved but have gone way beyond!.

Dialogue:
Pip Boy = The logo and something like a brand ambassador for the game.He is almost everywhere.From the advertisements in the real life to the advertisements in the game.It is also the system in the game by which you can see your map,quests,equipment and other stuff.
V.A.T.S = Vaul-Tec Assigned Targeting System -> It is a system built into your Pip Boy which helps you take accurate aims onto enemies.Using V.A.T.S requires action points which regenerate so you dont need to buy a potion or anything.
HP = Health Points


First Impressions:
Installing the game it turns out to be a 5-6 GB game.A very low space taking game taking in the factors that its an open world game and has a hundreds of quests to choose from and a thousands of coversation options.After the game is installed I open the game and find a very simple and clean looking menu.Not very werid looking and has a very great background.Not many options to choose from, only the default one.In the display (video) section you can adjust your Brightness,HUD opacity and color, item fade and grass fade.The stock options such as Screen Resolution and Texture Quality are found outside the game in the Fallout launcher.
Strating the campaign you start off when your born.You choose your name,sex and appearence.You have a lots of choices for faces and all.Really a great job.After that you are guided through one or two more occasions.Lets keep that for you to play okay!.I really like the choices option, each option you choose gets you a different reaction and a response as well.A polite one will get you a calm response and a harsh response will get you an angry response.Then you get your Pip Boy and and incident occurs and you are left to go to the outside world.The outside world is quite amazing with huge environments and well a destroyed area.Yeah even Washington DC is destroyed.

Plot:
It takes place in the year 2277 which is 36 years after Fallout 2 and almost 200 years after a nuclear war destroyed half of the planet and made it into a barren land with scavengers and looters.The game takes place in Vault 101 a shelter deep underground designed to save a number of humans from the nuclear effects outside in the world.Your main objective in the game is to find your father who has disappeared from Vault 101 after mysterious circumstances.

Fun factor:
Great game for enjoyment.Got loads of quests to accomplish and loads to enemies,mutants and robots to kill as well.You have many options in the game such as steal,cannibalism and many other things to make the fun in the game even more.Then theres the options in the conversations that make it more interesting since different options get you different things.Theres also another really awesome feature in the game which would be your own house.You can get different items for your house and then theres the workbench on which you can make your own weapons if you have the items required to make them.You have to have the blueprints for the weapons first, then the items and then you can make it.

Control:
Its has a very easy and user friendly control system.You dont have to have 20 or 30 hotkeys.All you need to do is have some 5 or 6 hotkeys which are of default things in the game such as reload,V.A.T.S,Pip-Boy and jump.Due to this control system it makes it a very easy for the user to learn the controls in the very beginning of the game and when he is in the outside world he can easily use them to his advantage and for his own benefit.

Gameplay:
The gameplay is quite very fascinating.You have a range of skills to choose from, from Daddy's Boy to Cannibalism and so on and so forth.Then comes the karma.Each player has a different amount of karma according to the deeds he does i.e: if he helps someone he will gain a positive karma while if he steals something he will get a negative karma effect.This good and bad can later effect the ending of your game.
Health is another important part of gameplay.Health can be reduced while taking damage or by jumping off high roofs (if your dumb enough).Health can be replenished by sleeping or using health kits and other medical equipment and also eating food.Eating food not only gives you HP but also increases radiation.V.A.T.S plays an important role in combat.When you use V.A.T.S you go into slow motion and your character can take aim on different parts of the enemies body and this increases your accuracy highly.Also one really interesting feature in the game is the instant warp.If you discover one place then you can instantly warp to that place from where ever you are using your Pip Boy map.

Graphics:
The graphics of the game are quite impressive.Looking up at the sun you can see the glare.Bullet holes are left in almost everything which is very real.Wood splinters,glass cracks and less durable metal gets penetrated.Shooting in the water causes a splash and ripples however water quality does not meet expectations which are demanded from such games.Shooting an enemy will cause the area of target to be splattered with blood and the environments are truly impressive with great attention to details and texture.

Sound:
The sound is amazing and beyond words.The opening of a refrigerator door makes a very realistic sound also when it is closed.So do the lockers and all the items that can be opened.Gunshots on different materials creates a different effect each time making it very realistic.However the NPC voices are almost the same with few exceptions.
The music of the game is quite catchy and the radio is no less.Radio stations have different voices with the radio interfearence also blended with the sound.

Life span:
The life span of the game is variable since its up to you to decide how to play it and how fast you want to play it.If you want you could just go around the map killing people for fun and discovering new areas and attempting new quests.Since the environment is quite huge it will take some time even if you skip the side quests and attempt the main ones.All in all its a very long game.

Final thoughts:
All in all the game has an engaging storyline and plot.The graphics are appealing and the sounds are great.You have a huge environment to discover,lots of quests and a variety of enemies to have fun with.What more can a person ask for?.I highly recommended it.For the PC requirements please look below

PC Requirements:

Minimum Recommended
Operating System Windows XP or Windows Vista
CPU Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or equivalent processor Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 1 GB / 2 GB (Vista) 2 GB


Graphics Hardware DirectX 9.0c compliant card with 256 MB RAM DirectX 9.0c compliant card with 512 MB RAM
(NVIDIA 6800 or better / ATI X850 or better) (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)

Note:Blue is for minimum,Red is for recommended and Black is for both