Fallout 3 (PC)

Emerging blinking into the sunlight after spending the previous 18 years of your existence in an underground vault would be considerable shock to your system at the best of times. Doing so after a nuclear apocalypse and being forced to try and survive in a blasted wasteland full of deadly creatures and deadlier people makes life particularly hard. Pockets of radiation bring on sickness and weird mutations, clean water is almost non-existent, ammunition in short supply and weapons in disrepair. Friends are very hard to come by. Put simply, life in the world of Fallout 3 is brutal. Bethesda Softworks' latest creation is a far cry from the largely idyllic ...  Read the complete review

Right from the very start, Fallout 3 offers a new twist on the RPG genre. Rather than "roll dice" or randomly generate numbers alone, your character's attributes are also determined by some little scenes that play out during the early part of your life in Vault 101 (a large nuclear fallout shelter that's big enough to support an entire community). This is a nice touch and it did help me get immersed in the game, but it can be frustrating for those that like to get involved in the game immediately. After a traumatic event in your Vault life, you emerge into the real world for the first time, each step taking you literally further from your past. The ...  Read the complete review

I loved Fallout 1 and 2 back in the day and I was very excited to get my hands on a copy of this well anticipated game. In a way I was not disappointed with the overall turnout of the game but there were a few things that bugged me as I progressed. The game starts you off as a little kid and you can go through a series of tests to be given a more realistic way of setting up your character, I preferred to assign my own points to any given stats. Not to give anything away but eventually you leave the vault and are presented with a massive post nuclear Washington DC, of which you can have pretty much free roam of, sometimes a little too ...  Read the complete review

Fall Out 3 is an RPG game set in Washington DC after nuclear war. The game starts with your birth and quickly runs through some major events in your life as you grow up in a large nuclear fall out bunker. This first small part of the game is a brilliant set up to show you the basics and create a character that suits the user. This is done by answering some questions to decide what type of character would suit you. After your charater has grow up, you leave the shelter in search of your missing father, only to discover a world of radiation and mutants. Dotted around there are some small cities with some humans survivors and there are some friendly ...  Read the complete review

Everyone who knows Fallout will know about the controversy surrounding this latest release, the first game in the series to come from a different developer. Many were worried that it was too far a departure from the originals to even be called 'Fallout'; people worried that it would just be Oblivion with guns! Whilst the game was built on the same engine as Oblivion, this game is anything but Oblivion with guns; what you get is a nitty-gritty post apocalyptic experience riddled with black humour, bottlecaps and radioactive nerdowells. Emerging from your vault you are graced with the most beautiful wasteland you are ever likely to see. Part of the beauty is ...  Read the complete review