After raking in the RPG of the Year prize at GameSpot, Fallout 3 went on to fill the PC Game of the Year slot. MGS4 prevented it from walking away with the Xbox 360 and cross-platform accolades. Motivation:<blockquote>The easy way to describe Fallout 3, Bethesda's superlative sequel in one of the most beloved role-playing franchises on the PC, is "huge." Even after spending more than 30 hours in the postapocalyptic Capital Wasteland, you will have only scratched the surface. Consider that you spend an hour simply creating your character, from the moment you exit the womb as an infant to the moment you emerge from the safety of Vault 101 as an adult in search of your father. From there, with a bombed-out Capitol building looming in the distance, you explore a wasteland that is incredibly detailed and immersive, both bleak and beautiful, where even the life-giving nourishment of a glass of water is tainted by radiation. Nothing is free here, and the punishing setting of Fallout 3 and the temptation to accumulate powerful items will strain your very moral compass. Will you cannibalize an enemy for a small health boost at the expense of your own virtue? Will you defuse an atomic bomb and save a city, or detonate it for the sadistic pleasure of watching a mushroom cloud grow in the distance? Can your loyalty be bought? Choose wisely, for karma has a way of catching up with you. No matter whether you're good or evil, Fallout 3 represents the very definition of "role-playing."
Bethesda Softworks should be credited for making Fallout 3 accessible to shooter fans and RPG diehards alike. Playable in both first- and third-person modes, with real-time combat mixed in with the pause-and-play Vault Assisted Targeting System with which you carefully disassemble Super Mutants limb by limb, Fallout 3 is a game enjoyed however you want to play it. There are flaws, yes, but they are instantly forgivable in a world of such grandiose scale and intimate detail. Fallout 3 is simply the finest PC game of the year.</blockquote>Elsewhere, Fallout 3 nips the Sky News GotY award.<blockquote>Who would have thought trudging around a drab, sparsely populated, post-apocalyptic wasteland could be so much fun? On paper it might not sound like Game of the Year material, but the brilliance of Fallout 3 didn't surprise anyone who played developer Bethesda's previous title, Oblivion.
From the first moment to the last, this was an incredible experience: a mature and thought-provoking game which continually asked the player questions about the kind of character they wanted be, demanding only that they live with the consequences of their decisions as they rippled through the world around them.
But the real treat was the game world itself - a startling vision of a Washington DC devastated by nuclear war, its iconic locations testament to the destruction: some empty, broken husks; others transformed into makeshift defence shelters against the monsters haunting the wastes.
The standout in a year full of brilliant releases, Fallout 3 was a title that delivered on every level. Game of the year by some margin.</blockquote>And GamingShogun:<blockquote>When Bethsoft began their work, they started from scratch and brought the game into the first-person using the game engine previously seen in their popular RPG, Oblivion. In keeping with the retro-1950's style mixed with a HUGE helping of dark-humour, they have created a post-apocalyptic world which is, in some ways, even better than what Black Isle created in the first two adventures.
Fallout 3 puts the player in a living and breathing (sometimes wheezing) 3d world where danger lurks just over the next scrap heap. The stories of the current residence of the D.C. Wasteland are not the only ones told as the player also gets a solid picture of life before the bombs fell. A pair of charred skeletons 'spoon' in the upstairs bed of a seemingly-intact suburban house. Nuclear-powered cars rust at a drive-in movie theater while a few are parked some meters away at what appears to be a 'lover's lookout'. Fallout 3 is a truly moving, engrossing game and will provide you with many hours of play and re-play (Bethsoft has designed the game so that you cannot possibly do everything in one sitting).</blockquote>Thanks to José Cruz.
Bethesda Softworks should be credited for making Fallout 3 accessible to shooter fans and RPG diehards alike. Playable in both first- and third-person modes, with real-time combat mixed in with the pause-and-play Vault Assisted Targeting System with which you carefully disassemble Super Mutants limb by limb, Fallout 3 is a game enjoyed however you want to play it. There are flaws, yes, but they are instantly forgivable in a world of such grandiose scale and intimate detail. Fallout 3 is simply the finest PC game of the year.</blockquote>Elsewhere, Fallout 3 nips the Sky News GotY award.<blockquote>Who would have thought trudging around a drab, sparsely populated, post-apocalyptic wasteland could be so much fun? On paper it might not sound like Game of the Year material, but the brilliance of Fallout 3 didn't surprise anyone who played developer Bethesda's previous title, Oblivion.
From the first moment to the last, this was an incredible experience: a mature and thought-provoking game which continually asked the player questions about the kind of character they wanted be, demanding only that they live with the consequences of their decisions as they rippled through the world around them.
But the real treat was the game world itself - a startling vision of a Washington DC devastated by nuclear war, its iconic locations testament to the destruction: some empty, broken husks; others transformed into makeshift defence shelters against the monsters haunting the wastes.
The standout in a year full of brilliant releases, Fallout 3 was a title that delivered on every level. Game of the year by some margin.</blockquote>And GamingShogun:<blockquote>When Bethsoft began their work, they started from scratch and brought the game into the first-person using the game engine previously seen in their popular RPG, Oblivion. In keeping with the retro-1950's style mixed with a HUGE helping of dark-humour, they have created a post-apocalyptic world which is, in some ways, even better than what Black Isle created in the first two adventures.
Fallout 3 puts the player in a living and breathing (sometimes wheezing) 3d world where danger lurks just over the next scrap heap. The stories of the current residence of the D.C. Wasteland are not the only ones told as the player also gets a solid picture of life before the bombs fell. A pair of charred skeletons 'spoon' in the upstairs bed of a seemingly-intact suburban house. Nuclear-powered cars rust at a drive-in movie theater while a few are parked some meters away at what appears to be a 'lover's lookout'. Fallout 3 is a truly moving, engrossing game and will provide you with many hours of play and re-play (Bethsoft has designed the game so that you cannot possibly do everything in one sitting).</blockquote>Thanks to José Cruz.
