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

Background --------------- Fallout was traditionally a top down isometric CRPG developed by the almighty Back Isle studios, who brought us the Baldur's gate series. When news broke that the 3rd instalment would be first person perspective and developed by someone else entirely, expectations plummeted. They were going to lose the epic feel of the series. The black humour would vanish. Plots would simplify. A sprawling game world would become tiny. The game system would become - horror or horrors - a CRPG LITE! Then something unforeseen happened. Not only did the game turn out to be a resounding success, with over 5,000,000 copies shipped, it ...  Read the complete review

I got fallout 3 shortly after it came out, I was always a fan of the first two games and the story and theme of the fallout series. I'm going to try writing this review in a different way. Story You play the son/daughter of the Doctor from vault 101, a vault sealed after a Nuclear War which devastated the American capital, Washington DC. Without wanting to give too much away the story starts with some flashpoints of you growing up in the vault, this forms part of the setting up of your character, using the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system - Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. Each affecting different aspects of skills or weapons ...  Read the complete review

Fallout 3 is a roleplaying game set in a post apocalyptic version of Washington DC. It is, as you might surmise from the title, the third part of a series. As I have never played the other two, this review concerns only Fallout 3 in it's own right. Fallout 3 is by Bethesda softworks, which is a pretty good pedigree as far as role-playing games go, as they produced the excellent Elder scrolls series, and fallout three is of exactly the same calibre. The game begins, rather unusually, with you being born! You then take baby steps as a one year old, enjoy your tenth birthday party and sit your exams as a sixteen year old. All of this is part a quite ...  Read the complete review

When I first heard fallout 3 was to be released I thought fantastic, I loved Fallout 2 with a passion so couldn't wait to get my hands on a copy. I had to wait quite a while before being able to give it a run through as my pc is very old and out dated, I was sure it wouldn't run. So I thought I'd treat myself to a new pc, which I ordered a fortnight ago. As it still hasn't arrived I thought just for the hell of it iI'd install it on my current pc and hope for the best. To my amazement the game worked perfectly (although on all the lowest graphical settings). There was no jerking and a good frame rate was maintained throughout playing. The visuals ...  Read the complete review