Fallout 3 The Pitt Reviews

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Dutch Inside Gamer (translation courtesy The Dutch Ghost) 4/5.<blockquote>The Pitt has a nice quest – chain, during which you are presented with a number of choices and enter exciting battles.
The most best part was for me the scene in which I in an arena had to win three fights in order to earn my freedom.
It reminded me of the arena from Oblivion, but in a short form.

I am also positive about the ending in which you with your reclaimed weapons get to deal with all enemies.
The former slaves will fight at your side and it feels really epic.

This DLC however doesn't get the full score.
For that the DLC with its two and a half hour just a little to short, doesn't offer real innovation over the other quests in the game (Fallout 3), and are the rewards somewhat disappointing over the great weapons that you got in Operation Anchorage.</blockquote>GameZone, 8.<blockquote>If you’re like me and experienced bugs that don’t cripple the gaming experience, what we have here in The Pitt is an experience that is two steps ahead of Operation Anchorage in terms of a downloadable add-on with a lot to offer. Unlike Fallout 3’s first add-on, The Pitt leaves a lasting impression and you can revisit the new areas after you’re finished with its main quest. </blockquote>Gamepro Arcade, 4.5.<blockquote>The Pitt’s best feature is its choose-your-own-adventure style ending. I’m not going to ruin it for you, but your mission isn’t exactly what it appears to be. You’ll be given a chance to choose how your time in mutation filled Pittsburgh concludes. The type of person you are will decide which side, slaves or raiders, you believe in more and what you’re willing to do, or not do, for that belief.</blockquote>Feed Your Console, 10/10.<blockquote>Without going into too much detail on what you encounter story wise, I will tell you that as in all the other quests within the game, you’re faced with a variety of moral choices and as the saying goes “Who will you become?”

It’s nice to see that the production value and standards from the rest of the game translate to the DLC. There’s plenty to do and see for such a small amount of money and in this day and age you want value for your dollar. This is truly an awesome addition to an already epic tale. I can’t wait to get into Operation Anchorage and the next chapter, Broken Steel, which is slated to come out sometime this April-May.</blockquote>
 
Without going into too much detail on what you encounter story wise, I will tell you that as in all the other quests within the game, you’re faced with a variety of moral choices and as the saying goes “Who will you become?”

It’s nice to see that the production value and standards from the rest of the game translate to the DLC. There’s plenty to do and see for such a small amount of money and in this day and age you want value for your dollar. This is truly an awesome addition to an already epic tale. I can’t wait to get into Operation Anchorage and the next chapter, Broken Steel, which is slated to come out sometime this April-May.

I dont know what to say, what is he talking about? Does this guy have some ultra, awesome, elite edition of the pitt limited to 10 copies? Epic wtf...

Btw. im dowloading dlc for UT3, lots of content (new maps, new weapons, new game types and lots of other good stuff) and this is absolutely for free! The Pitt comparing to this looks like sick (bugs) poor nigerian boy who is standing near Richey Rich :| And how someone can think that bethesda cares about the players and even their own fans? they care only about what is in their wallets.
 
I have not played this, and will not ever do, but giving it a 10/10 is just plain fucking stupid.

Even Fallout and Fallout 2 is "only" worth 9/10 in my opinion. A 9/10 is a fcking brilliant rate. 10/10 is meant for the perfect game, that everyone will enjoy, that have no bugs, great gameplay, and maybe even awesome graphics, and also great programmed to work on any low-end computer. But so far in history of mankind this has not occured yet, and The Pitt is probably not even close...
 
junkevil said:
the pitt broke my entire install. awesome.

They should make commercial with those lines "new dimension of immersion - we bring the apocalypse to your pc's!"
 
While I played the Pitt, enjoyed it and had no problems (except the invisible autoaxe) I am still confused why somebody would call it a perfect 10.

I get into a lot of talks about criticism and in particular in the game enthusiast circles where everything is either the best ever or absolutely pathetic. Maybe the expansion blew this guy's mind but I kind of doubt it. Then again like I said before, people only read a review on Metacritic if it is at the top or the bottom, so that might factor in.
 
dirtbag said:
I have not played this, and will not ever do, but giving it a 10/10 is just plain fucking stupid.

Even Fallout and Fallout 2 is "only" worth 9/10 in my opinion. A 9/10 is a fcking brilliant rate. 10/10 is meant for the perfect game, that everyone will enjoy, that have no bugs, great gameplay, and maybe even awesome graphics, and also great programmed to work on any low-end computer. But so far in history of mankind this has not occured yet, and The Pitt is probably not even close...

Tetris.


Anyway, 10/10 doesn't mean perfect game....it just means a game that is almost perfect(has very few shortcomings that don't really detract from the game)....

There are very few games out there that are worthy of the 10/10 score and the Pitt is not one of them mainly because of the glaring shortcomings....
 
Verd1234 said:
Anyway, 10/10 doesn't mean perfect game....it just means a game that is almost perfect(has very few shortcomings that don't really detract from the game)....
10/10 means that it's the best game of that type yet released. In the case of Fallout 3 and The Pitt, it's clear that it fails in the FPS and RPG areas so that's clearly not true. If you can point to a game that does something that it tries to do (notably?) better (gameplay wise?) then it doesn't deserve a 10. What I've always thought that reviewers should do is at least put a game at 10 and a game at 1 or 0 (whichever is their bottom), maybe even put a game at 5, so that it's clear what there range is, it's especially helpful when they have reviewed the game in the past so that you can read about what made the games such. Granted, if the game industry isn't producing any overall 10 games for a few years then the 10 example may go out of date but as long as you keep individual areas updated it should make sense.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
junkevil said:
the pitt broke my entire install. awesome.

So what happened?

well, it might have been the patch (1.4) as well because i installed them on the same day. i didn't even get to go to the pitt as when i loaded the game, it looked fine, right. then i loaded a save file and noted that the compass and reticule were both garbled... like almost in the way that nes games would garble sprites when the cart was dirty. i didn't care about that really (played nes before and all....), so i took a few steps and the game crashed out. i tried again and it froze the second time. i'm not even in the pitt yet though, just a random part of the wastes. another possible issue is that i have been running a couple mods with the game, they seem to be cool enough with being disabled but the game still crashes out. also, i have anchorage installed. i have no idea what files may have wrote over what. i'm not exactly a game dev or anything. i do know that about a week ago, the game was fine. none of the mods i had seemed to mess with anchorage at all, and anchorage ran very smoothly despite being a run and gun type thing. i don't think any of the custom mods are effecting things, i think it's just bad coding in this software. i haven't tried removing the pitt from add/remove programs either, not even sure if you can, i know anchorage was in there last i looked. anyways, i'm going to install again from scratch when i have the time or will to do so, maybe another week so beth can fucking fix it before i waste more time. i'm playing on pc and haven't seen anyone post anything about the compass and reticule though. it's odd. also, my pc is in great shape, i built it myself to be a gaming pc about 6 months ago, running a custom nlite version of xpsp3.

edit: with this extra time i have not playing fallout, i've been replaying mass effect, another game with a nasty habit of shitting all over itself on pc, but not as bad as my current install of f3.
 
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