Fallout 3: Rustys seal of approval.
Dec 4, 2008 14:26:58 GMT
Post by Rusty on Dec 4, 2008 14:26:58 GMT
Its brilliant, probably one of the best games I've played in years.
The story is very very gripping, the combat feels refined to 100% perfection, and it has re-play value oozing out of its radioactive ears!
You will find yourself glued to the game almost as soon as your start playing, I was just starting to get bored with games, having to sort out my bike and stuff, but one day for the hell of it I played the beginning of fallout 3 and I was back to my usual miserable lifeless gamer self! (Its not as bad as it sounds).
Basically, you are the "Vault Dweller" and you have grown up in an underground fallout shelter 200 years after a nuclear war between America and China, your dad has left the vault, and you leave the vault in his footsteps to go find him, nobody has ever left the vault before, so you spark off alot of drama.
Despite the game being set in the future, it has borrowed very heavily off the ideal 1950's America, the radio stations ingame are always pumping out 1950's music, ect, even the robots have a strong 1950's sci fi film feel to them.
All your choices that you make in the game effect the outcome of the rest of the game, for example in the beginning of the game you are given the option to detonate a nuclear bomb inside a town, or you can defuse the bomb and save the town, whichever you choose directly affects the game, all the NPC's including the important quest givers could be killed, or you could gain accses to new ones by blowing up the town, you have to re-play the entire game to get the rest of the story line because almost every action affects the game.
The combat is very unique in fallout 3, you basically have two methods of combat, one being the more direct and fast paced FPS style shooting where all you do it point and click, and the V.A.T.S, or Vault-tec Assisted Targeting System which allows you to stop time and pick a certain body part to attack.
I found myself using both in co-operation with each other because you run out of "AP" which I call "V.A.T.S Juice" because I actually have no idea what it is.
The atmosphere of the game is just superb, anywhere you look, you can go, all of the depressing and erie post-apocalyptic Washington D.C landscape is yours to explore, Its a very beautiful apocalypse too, it uses the same engine as oblivion, it looks much better however and the attention to detail is excellent compared to oblivion, the map is not as big as oblivion's, but it feels bigger, and better because you never miss anything, everywhere you go there is something interesting to look at, along with all the underground and indoor locations it makes for a very daunting world.
There is even an entire aircraft carrier converted into a city! called "Rivet City", one of my favorite locations in game.
I highly recommend you get yourself a copy of this game and play it more than once, it wins Rusty's seal of approval! and gets a 96/ 100 from me!
- Rusty
The story is very very gripping, the combat feels refined to 100% perfection, and it has re-play value oozing out of its radioactive ears!
You will find yourself glued to the game almost as soon as your start playing, I was just starting to get bored with games, having to sort out my bike and stuff, but one day for the hell of it I played the beginning of fallout 3 and I was back to my usual miserable lifeless gamer self! (Its not as bad as it sounds).
Basically, you are the "Vault Dweller" and you have grown up in an underground fallout shelter 200 years after a nuclear war between America and China, your dad has left the vault, and you leave the vault in his footsteps to go find him, nobody has ever left the vault before, so you spark off alot of drama.
Despite the game being set in the future, it has borrowed very heavily off the ideal 1950's America, the radio stations ingame are always pumping out 1950's music, ect, even the robots have a strong 1950's sci fi film feel to them.
All your choices that you make in the game effect the outcome of the rest of the game, for example in the beginning of the game you are given the option to detonate a nuclear bomb inside a town, or you can defuse the bomb and save the town, whichever you choose directly affects the game, all the NPC's including the important quest givers could be killed, or you could gain accses to new ones by blowing up the town, you have to re-play the entire game to get the rest of the story line because almost every action affects the game.
The combat is very unique in fallout 3, you basically have two methods of combat, one being the more direct and fast paced FPS style shooting where all you do it point and click, and the V.A.T.S, or Vault-tec Assisted Targeting System which allows you to stop time and pick a certain body part to attack.
I found myself using both in co-operation with each other because you run out of "AP" which I call "V.A.T.S Juice" because I actually have no idea what it is.
The atmosphere of the game is just superb, anywhere you look, you can go, all of the depressing and erie post-apocalyptic Washington D.C landscape is yours to explore, Its a very beautiful apocalypse too, it uses the same engine as oblivion, it looks much better however and the attention to detail is excellent compared to oblivion, the map is not as big as oblivion's, but it feels bigger, and better because you never miss anything, everywhere you go there is something interesting to look at, along with all the underground and indoor locations it makes for a very daunting world.
There is even an entire aircraft carrier converted into a city! called "Rivet City", one of my favorite locations in game.
I highly recommend you get yourself a copy of this game and play it more than once, it wins Rusty's seal of approval! and gets a 96/ 100 from me!
- Rusty