Fallout 3 reviews round-up #84

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The Gathering.<blockquote>Fallout 3 is a RPG with a thick layer of shooter sauce or actually a RPG where you don’t click on your enemy but have to aim to hit it (first or third person). A RPG always has stats and skills. Fallout 3 also has perks which also influence your ability to shoot, talk, sneak, picklock etc.

Are there any negative things to say about this game? It can’t be perfect, right? Yes at the start of the game I found that the animation of the running was a bit jerky, but somehow after a few hours of playing I was looking at the running again and it was normal and good. Is that the power of brainwashing beauty, awesomeness and epicness?</blockquote>The Cherokee Chronicle, 10/10.<blockquote>The combat system is great. Fallout 3 can be played in first or third-person. The player can use Fallout 3’s VATS, Vault-tech Assisted Targeting System, which allows the player to target specific body parts of a person or creature and blow off limbs with ease. The player can freeze combat, target someone’s head, and switch targets to another person’s leg, and watch the carnage unfold. The combat doesn’t take away from the RPG feel, either.

This is probably the best RPG on the Xbox 360, and will be for a long time.</blockquote>ocaholic.ch.<blockquote>Fallout 3 is a very recommendable game. Therefore is doesn't matter if you're looking for a well thought plot, beautiful graphics, impressive sound or excellent gameplay. Nearly everything is on a very high level and is able to fascinate for a long time. It is especially positive that the plot isn't linear. That means it is completely down to you if you want to look for your dad who escaped or if you want to do just something different ... killing for example.

We are generally impressed by Fallout 3. Finally Bethesda did the small miracle to develop a game that fascinates with a non-linear plot, comes with some really nice graphics and supreme sound effects.</blockquote>Game Guru, 10/10.<blockquote>The entire world of Washington D.C has been remarkably recreated with the utilization of Gamebryo technology. Although the desolation and destruction has been aptly recreated for the player, the character models fall weak and the game in general suffers form numerous technical glitches, which include impossible to kill enemies or a rather obtrusive V.A.T.S. system during combat.

Certain segments of Fallout 3 also feel horribly repeated, which might be a little annoying for the player. These include recurring train stations and certain Vaults that the player comes across through the game. The player might also feel tired with the map of the game, and since it’s vast a module of transportation would have been a welcome addition to Fallout 3.</blockquote>Don't Panic.<blockquote>The balance between adventuring, problem solving and ass kicking doesn’t quite work with RPG elements suffering for the shoot’em up functions and vice versa. Upgrading your character is tough, but once you’ve gone through the lengthy process you’ll often find there simply aren’t enough weapons or ammo to justify the effort.

As a result of all this I’m very much in two minds about Fallout 3. The gameplay is solid, the graphics are awesome, but it’s a frustrating thing to play. I mean if a deadly virus infects the entire world and turns everyone into zombies, do you want to spend hours developing a cure or do you want to pick up a shotgun and kill everything in sight? Well Fallout 3 tries too hard to cover both, which is a shame, because behind the many boxes the developers have tried too hard to tick, this is a pretty good game.</blockquote>Xboxdynasty, 9.2.<blockquote>Fall out 3 is an absolutely ingenious play experience. The developers created above all a gigantic atmosphere. Song of the 50's in the radio, cracking the radioactive jets and the really very impressing graphic presentation develop an uncanny suspense-creating moment. Also the play history of Vault 101 is simply ingenious.

Of from there it briefly and scarcely: Who in the search for a good role performance is shocking, which must absolutely slam 3 shut with fall out. Fall out 3 must have played you.</blockquote>GameCity, 90%.<blockquote>Fall out 3 is more than more successfully category-mixes, which will give above all Konsolenjüngern a shootermässiges role performance end time experience. While Shooter on consoles possess still a rather bad to moderate Gameplay, it creates fall out 3 with the new steering control very much fun to bring. Who leaves itself to time with exploring, so all kinds of interesanntes and useful discovers. Perhaps it creates also someone without an opponent to settle by the play.</blockquote>
 
[looks at the scores]

[struggles to restrain from laughing]

[gives an all-out, sincere rotfl]
 
You cant stop posting these "reviews" can you ?
They are so...bad..that they become actually rather funny after a while.
 
I can't understand why so many of these "reviews" keep saying that Fallout 3 has great graphics.. I can understand how someone can call it "a great RPG", this can happen when person haven't played any real RPG's, which are very rare nowadays.. But the graphics part bugs me to no end.. There are plenty of games that came out before Fallout 3 that have MUCH better graphics. Or maybe Fallout 3 has some hidden "Super awesumz" visual settings that look much better than those "Ultra" settings I used ? Maybe you need to finish game to unlock them? That would explain it, cause I was not able to finish it yet.
 
Yes at the start of the game I found that the animation of the running was a bit jerky, but somehow after a few hours of playing I was looking at the running again and it was normal and good. Is that the power of brainwashing beauty, awesomeness and epicness?

Guy really really likes the game.
 
Oh, teh power of awesomeness.. Now I understand. Wait.. no I don't. What the fuck is "awesomeness" anyway? I don't recall noticing anything similar in this game. Maybe my english isn't good enough. Anyway, he did get the "brainwashing" part right.
 
The game guru review is fun to read:

This sucks, that sucks, this is horrible, game really needs this and that... 10/10!
 
You know, the fact that they still are writing "Fall out 3" -s in the reviews tells volumes of how they know this game...or its predecessors....
 
It looks like 95% of reviewers never played any RPG before Oblivion, am I too old or is gaming journalism controlled by fifteen-year-olds.
 
TheRatKing said:
I always thought that "Fall Out" was how the google translators spit it out.

They do (sometimes with a hyphen), but a few native speakers write it that way too.
 
Yes at the start of the game I found that the animation of the running was a bit jerky, but somehow after a few hours of playing I was looking at the running again and it was normal and good. Is that the power of brainwashing beauty, awesomeness and epicness?
Apparently. Because the running animation - the one that they didn't even bother to improve after Oblivion - still sucked after I had played over 10 hours.
 
quetzilla said:
The game guru review is fun to read:

This sucks, that sucks, this is horrible, game really needs this and that... 10/10!

Maybe he likes games to suck and being horrible? :D
 
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