Perpetual Student, Perpetually Gaming blog, 5/5.<blockquote>You can play it from a first- or third-person perspective, but these are usually simply for traversing the world, as your dialogue will always put you in a first-person view where you observe the person you are talking to standing in front of you as a mannequin as you dig through the sometimes-overly-textualized dialogue trees. You are also in first-person mode to view your Pip-Boy, the wrist computer that acts as your menu system. The method of navigating the Pip-Boy is more awkward at times than it needs to be, and I often found myself pressing the trigger when I wanted the d-pad. Outside of these instances, however, you can run and gun your way through the D.C. area in the viewpoint of your choice.
Some of the missions are interesting while others amount to simple fetch quests, but that is an inherent design flaw for the role-playing genre, so it is hard to hold it against a single game. For the most part, Fallout 3 does a good job of managing the quests and making sure you’re not doing the same uninteresting things too often.</blockquote>NextGen Player blog, 5/5.<blockquote>The look and feel is rather different from the ¾ overhead of the previous games for a first-person shooter look. They also changed the combat system. Not enough to say that they overhauled it so much as they tweaked it. Previous games had you in a turn based style combat with AP (Action Points) to move your player, reload guns and shoot. The AP system is back and integrated with the first-person shooter genre nicely in that you have AP for aimed hits (called VATS) or you can just go guns a blazing like the other cookie cutter shooter games.</blockquote>VillainTech blog.<blockquote>Aaah… Bethesda brings another heavy dosage of gaming bliss, this time with a new combat system (VATS), and an interesting new world to explore. You start life in a vault as a baby, then… well I’m not going to spoil anything for you, just buy it!
Essentially, this game is the same engine as Oblivion, with the new combat system, and little else. Not to downplay the game though, it is a very interesting format, although very similar to Oblivion.</blockquote>Deseret News, 10/10.<blockquote>Even taking a good deal of time before printing a review (as suggested by Bethesda) there are many interesting hours here. There are few games that allow so many types of play options that all reward the player. It is a technical marvel, extremely playable and features amazing design, all in one game.</blockquote>GamingTrend, second review, 94%.<blockquote>When Bethesda first announced that they were making a first-person shooter/RPG out of Fallout 3, there were many puzzled looks going around. How can you possibly combine these elements, along with the turn-based nature of the previous Fallout titles, and have it make sense? Needless to say, Fallout 3 combines all of them in a nearly flawless manner, making this title uniquely enjoyable to play.</blockquote>Game Freaks 365, 9.6.<blockquote>This generation of games has delivered absolutely fabulous cinematic-quality titles. Bioshock, Gears of War and the Call of Duty series just to name a few. Fallout 3 easily deserves to be remembered amongst them. Not only that, but Fallout 3 deserves to mentioned in the same breath as all other RPG's we've heard too much about: Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger and Bethesda's own Elder's Scroll series. Fallout 3 is an absolute masterpiece, truly the pinnacle of Western RPGs, and deserves to be remembered as such.</blockquote>Gaming Obsession Australia, 9/10.<blockquote>Head and shoulders above a lot of the games that have been released this generation. A game that you can play for months and not be bored of. A game that everybody needs to play, just the scene when you walk out of the Vault for the first time makes Fallout 3 worth the entry fee.</blockquote>Level 7, 9/10.<blockquote>Fallout 3 should be played at a quiet pace. You should do all the side quests you find, search the wasteland for interesting locations and talk to everything and everyone. It should be in your interest to learn more about the world you wake up to in "vault 101". If you don't have the time or interest to play at a quiet pace it is easy to ruin Fallout 3. The worst thing you could do is just play through the main plot as quickly as you can. Then you'll miss the fact that this is one of the games of the year.</blockquote>
Some of the missions are interesting while others amount to simple fetch quests, but that is an inherent design flaw for the role-playing genre, so it is hard to hold it against a single game. For the most part, Fallout 3 does a good job of managing the quests and making sure you’re not doing the same uninteresting things too often.</blockquote>NextGen Player blog, 5/5.<blockquote>The look and feel is rather different from the ¾ overhead of the previous games for a first-person shooter look. They also changed the combat system. Not enough to say that they overhauled it so much as they tweaked it. Previous games had you in a turn based style combat with AP (Action Points) to move your player, reload guns and shoot. The AP system is back and integrated with the first-person shooter genre nicely in that you have AP for aimed hits (called VATS) or you can just go guns a blazing like the other cookie cutter shooter games.</blockquote>VillainTech blog.<blockquote>Aaah… Bethesda brings another heavy dosage of gaming bliss, this time with a new combat system (VATS), and an interesting new world to explore. You start life in a vault as a baby, then… well I’m not going to spoil anything for you, just buy it!
Essentially, this game is the same engine as Oblivion, with the new combat system, and little else. Not to downplay the game though, it is a very interesting format, although very similar to Oblivion.</blockquote>Deseret News, 10/10.<blockquote>Even taking a good deal of time before printing a review (as suggested by Bethesda) there are many interesting hours here. There are few games that allow so many types of play options that all reward the player. It is a technical marvel, extremely playable and features amazing design, all in one game.</blockquote>GamingTrend, second review, 94%.<blockquote>When Bethesda first announced that they were making a first-person shooter/RPG out of Fallout 3, there were many puzzled looks going around. How can you possibly combine these elements, along with the turn-based nature of the previous Fallout titles, and have it make sense? Needless to say, Fallout 3 combines all of them in a nearly flawless manner, making this title uniquely enjoyable to play.</blockquote>Game Freaks 365, 9.6.<blockquote>This generation of games has delivered absolutely fabulous cinematic-quality titles. Bioshock, Gears of War and the Call of Duty series just to name a few. Fallout 3 easily deserves to be remembered amongst them. Not only that, but Fallout 3 deserves to mentioned in the same breath as all other RPG's we've heard too much about: Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger and Bethesda's own Elder's Scroll series. Fallout 3 is an absolute masterpiece, truly the pinnacle of Western RPGs, and deserves to be remembered as such.</blockquote>Gaming Obsession Australia, 9/10.<blockquote>Head and shoulders above a lot of the games that have been released this generation. A game that you can play for months and not be bored of. A game that everybody needs to play, just the scene when you walk out of the Vault for the first time makes Fallout 3 worth the entry fee.</blockquote>Level 7, 9/10.<blockquote>Fallout 3 should be played at a quiet pace. You should do all the side quests you find, search the wasteland for interesting locations and talk to everything and everyone. It should be in your interest to learn more about the world you wake up to in "vault 101". If you don't have the time or interest to play at a quiet pace it is easy to ruin Fallout 3. The worst thing you could do is just play through the main plot as quickly as you can. Then you'll miss the fact that this is one of the games of the year.</blockquote>
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