GamePlayer. 9.5<blockquote>For example; rather than looting treasure from caved dungeons filled with murderous trolls, you’re now scavenging for scrap metal and water from subways filled with cannibalistic super mutants. Rather than chatting about virtuous quests with noble knights and chaste village maidens, you’re now haggling for a discount with the Bartertown prostitute or telling your arch enemies to go fuck themselves. Rather than elegantly swinging a sword at miscreants and firing arrows at a pesky rogue, you’re belting the pus out of giant radioactive scorpions with a sledgehammer and messing up some punk’s hairdo with a .44 magnum to the face. Needless to say, this is all quite different to what we’ve previously seen from Bethesda, but it works.
Make no mistake, Fallout 3 stays true to the edgy source material - and if you thought the dismemberment in Brothers in Arms was vicious, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. It’s so deliciously gory in fact, that it is quite possible that the turn-based haters out there will come on over to the dark side, just to watch enemies get shredded into chunky kibbles.</blockquote>IGN. 9.6<blockquote>The conversations you'll have with the various people you meet in Fallout 3 range from disturbing to hilarious, but they all have one thing in common: fantastic writing. You'll want to hear everything every person has to say, but to do that you'll have to play the game more than once and likely more than a few times.
Unlike many games that offer the level of freedom and choice found here, Fallout 3 has an exciting, top-notch main story. It all comes together for a spectacular climax that is just flat out awesome.</blockquote>GameSpy. 5/5<blockquote>Given that it uses the same Gamebryo engine that powered Oblivion, it's probably not surprising to learn that Fallout 3 is a helluva great-looking game. Sure, the characters still look a bit weird while they're talking, and you'll likely notice some draw distance issues no matter which version you play, but this is still one of the most visually impressive games of 2008. The PC version looks particularly nice, especially since it runs at a smooth and steady 60 frames per second with only occasional dips. That's not to say, however, that the Xbox 360 and PS3 games don't look good, as they still blow just about every other game this year out of the water in the graphics department.</blockquote>Thanks to Jiggly McNerdington.
Make no mistake, Fallout 3 stays true to the edgy source material - and if you thought the dismemberment in Brothers in Arms was vicious, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. It’s so deliciously gory in fact, that it is quite possible that the turn-based haters out there will come on over to the dark side, just to watch enemies get shredded into chunky kibbles.</blockquote>IGN. 9.6<blockquote>The conversations you'll have with the various people you meet in Fallout 3 range from disturbing to hilarious, but they all have one thing in common: fantastic writing. You'll want to hear everything every person has to say, but to do that you'll have to play the game more than once and likely more than a few times.
Unlike many games that offer the level of freedom and choice found here, Fallout 3 has an exciting, top-notch main story. It all comes together for a spectacular climax that is just flat out awesome.</blockquote>GameSpy. 5/5<blockquote>Given that it uses the same Gamebryo engine that powered Oblivion, it's probably not surprising to learn that Fallout 3 is a helluva great-looking game. Sure, the characters still look a bit weird while they're talking, and you'll likely notice some draw distance issues no matter which version you play, but this is still one of the most visually impressive games of 2008. The PC version looks particularly nice, especially since it runs at a smooth and steady 60 frames per second with only occasional dips. That's not to say, however, that the Xbox 360 and PS3 games don't look good, as they still blow just about every other game this year out of the water in the graphics department.</blockquote>Thanks to Jiggly McNerdington.
