Fallout 3 (Xbox 360)

I picked up Fallout 3 on recommendation from a work friend who was heavily into Oblivion (Bethesdas previous game). I had tried Oblivion and have to say, I didn't really get into it, the micro management of the inventory screens, the themes and weapons of the game, it just didn't inspire me. So you might be thinking I wouldn't get into this one. Wrong. I fell into this game so easily that in one night I lost 6 straight hours to it. Set in the future you play as a citizen in "Vault 101", an underground nuclear proof bunker after essentially World War 3. With all the styles and designs locked into the 1950s, but technology advancing to include laser ...  Read the complete review

Fallout 3 Format: Xbox 360 Genre: Action RPG --- So what's it all about? --- Fallout 3 as the title would suggest is the 3rd and greatly anticipated instalment from the Fallout saga. In all of the games you take control of one of the survivors in post apolocalyptic wasteland ravished by nuclear war and radiation. Fallout was first released on the PC in 1997, which was a turn based RPG. The game played upon the very realistic fear of nuclear war and the of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) which was firmly in the hearts and minds of people living in the post war 1950's and into the cold war. In fact it was this era that heavily ...  Read the complete review

FALLOUT 3-War never changes, but Fallout has... Resurrecting a long dead series can be very difficult, especially if the series has been MIA for a long period of time. As the years have gone by, many new games have come, innovated and the critics of the gaming industry now expect so much more with next-generation technology upping the ante. Many 'dead' series' have tried to make a good comeback, including Golden Axe, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ninja Gaiden and Prince of Persia. Aside from the latter two, these games have failed to please today's market. When Fallout and Fallout 2 were released in the late nineties, they both impressed and reached cult status, but ...  Read the complete review

Yeah, that's right. Fallout is back. Gone are the pixels and turn-based combat of the first games. Now you get to explore the wasteland in first person, and blow off uglies heads in exciting bullet time! In the not-so-distant future, America and China finally dropped the bomb that would change life forever. Cities were purged with nuclear fire, society retarded back to nomadic and tribal roots, and the animal life that wasn't wiped clean by the inferno became either really freakin' big, or really, really angry. Or both! That's where you come in! Born in a vault, which is like a big bomb shelter, you play out the early years of your character from ...  Read the complete review

Summary: Set in an alternative history following a nuclear war, society lives in 'Vaults'. One night the main characters father leaves the vault and heads into the waste land. The player must follow into the waste lands and find their father. Interaction with other characters will leave the player with a choice: help or hinder, complete the quests set by other characters or just wander the wastes... First off this game is absolutely huge! It's a roll playing game set in a post nuclear world where you are free to explore, take on quests, or simply just interact with the characters. Initially you'll find yourself trying to complete the ...  Read the complete review