Over hyped? I haven't seen 1 commercial about it on TV. I think it is being under hyped when people think Fable 2 is going to be better and some side scrolling game like LittleBigPlanet will get game of the year? I am kind of mad about the lack of media this is getting. To fans of Fallout and people closely following every news date we feel it is getting a lot of hype, but it really isn't. I have about 10 examples that come to mind, but 1) Gametrailers last friday had a fallout special and then after that had a Halo Wars special (a game that is coming out next year) and the game coming out next year got more hype. 2) Tonight x-play is doing it weekly "super Tuesday" report where they feature a AAA game coming out each tuesday, and usually after they show it they replay it again at 1 and then all throughout the week at random times, but I haven't seen it announced to reshow at all.
Fallout 3 will be a good game, yes if you want to nit pick every syllable in every conversation you may think the voice acting is sub par, if you don't weigh the pros and cons of graphics you might think those are sub par (can't have great graphics and 100 hours gameplay) but versus current standards this will be a highly rated game.
Fallout 3 will be a good game, it just won't be like Fallout 1 and 2, which sucks but I have come to accept that.