PC World has an article on the 15 coolest games of this Fall, and naturalement Fallout 3 is in it.<blockquote>Matt: This one has been steeped in controversy ever since a wildly vocal minority elected to brand it as "unfaithful" to the originals. Don't buy what they're selling. First, those originals got better press than they deserved because RPGs in the late 1990s were rarer than jackalopes. (Beware crabby fanboys swathed in blinkered nostalgia!) Second, Bethesda has already done a pretty bang-up job capturing the spirit of the originals in promotional clips, so this skeptic's cap is tipped, and his fingers are triple-crossed.
Darren: I've actually had the chance to play through about a half-hour of the game, and what a huge mistake that was -- I wanted more. Lots more! The thing that's most frightening about Bethesda: Those people make huge, massively single-player offline games that'll chew up well over 100 hours of your life. But you won't miss the lost time as you traipse around a nuke-blasted Washington, D.C. From what I've seen so far, the inky-black humor from the original games remains intact. One thing that the haters jump on is the notion that it isn't a turn-based strategy game. Wrong! Hold down a button in combat, and it stops the clock, allowing you to call your next targeted shot. If you want, you can play the whole game that way.</blockquote>Many of us will remember Matt Peckham for either his false, baseless accusations towards NMA or his NWN 2 review that was so spectacularly bad and misinformed 1up pulled it not long after it was published. Chalk one more up for Matt, this may be the first time someone has gone so low in the hype department as to actually hate on the original Fallouts to praise Fallout 3.
Matt Peckham. A legend in his own time.
Thanks TheGM.
Darren: I've actually had the chance to play through about a half-hour of the game, and what a huge mistake that was -- I wanted more. Lots more! The thing that's most frightening about Bethesda: Those people make huge, massively single-player offline games that'll chew up well over 100 hours of your life. But you won't miss the lost time as you traipse around a nuke-blasted Washington, D.C. From what I've seen so far, the inky-black humor from the original games remains intact. One thing that the haters jump on is the notion that it isn't a turn-based strategy game. Wrong! Hold down a button in combat, and it stops the clock, allowing you to call your next targeted shot. If you want, you can play the whole game that way.</blockquote>Many of us will remember Matt Peckham for either his false, baseless accusations towards NMA or his NWN 2 review that was so spectacularly bad and misinformed 1up pulled it not long after it was published. Chalk one more up for Matt, this may be the first time someone has gone so low in the hype department as to actually hate on the original Fallouts to praise Fallout 3.
Matt Peckham. A legend in his own time.
Thanks TheGM.
. Looks like a cross between Fallout Tactics/Final fantasy tactics and JRPGs like Eternal Sonata, with special moves like FO3 VATS. 
Kind of ironic that the author of this statement, is giving better press to F3 than it deservres.