I bought Fallout 3 thinking that it would follow what it says on the box and be a first person shooter, but to my surprise, it wasn't, which is good on my standpoint because I suck at FPS games to begin with. All in all though, it's storyline is SUPERB, there are some plot holes in that HOW can my character carry three Laser Gatling guns at once without having some sort of teleportation device in his pocket but I don't really mind it because the entire storyline completely makes you sympathize with your character and makes it all the more hard to not force your main man to kill everyone in Megaton with the atomic bomb sitting right in the middle of town. Which the game explains its existence being that Megaton is actually a crater formed by an airplane off to bomb a nearby country and thus, the entire town is filled with overly hate-able eccentrics who refuse to disarm the bomb because of a nearby cult worshiping the thing. At this point I need to ask the audience: is it just me, or is it that you'd have to receive blunt force trauma before you'd worship the atomic bomb? Then again, since the town was formed by a plane crash, I guess it's possible. These are just a few things that are wrong with the game but I'd like to point this out: there WERE a few times when the game just froze with no warning apparently because I wasn't wearing the right color socks that day or maybe it's that my PS3 is in its last stages of its life, I don't know, but if your PS3 is like mine, then I suggest saving A LOT because it honestly just happens with no lag before it, it just stops.
Now I believe that it's time to talk about the actual game play and this is what I've got to say, it honestly plays like a RPG, Fallout 3 is a shooter game the same way Left 4 Dead is a Horror game, IT JUST ISN'T, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, well maybe it is if you were expecting something like that but if you were the Halo 3 playing, Gears of War ogling FPS enthusiast then this game just isn't for you. I've heard Yahtzee's rant about VATS and I say I disagree completely, it honestly amused me to such a degree that I completely forgot I was playing a video game and thought I was watching a movie, then I had to smack myself and pick up my controller. The time line is something I found a bit odd at least from a technological standpoint. Also, I don't usually talk about the graphics in a game, but since I like them, they are glorious at least by my standards and when you stand on a particularly high hill at sunset looking at the D.C. hillside, it makes you stop and look it's so beautiful. All in all, this game deserves its high rating and I say buy the game if it wasn't already bought and played by you.
Now I believe that it's time to talk about the actual game play and this is what I've got to say, it honestly plays like a RPG, Fallout 3 is a shooter game the same way Left 4 Dead is a Horror game, IT JUST ISN'T, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, well maybe it is if you were expecting something like that but if you were the Halo 3 playing, Gears of War ogling FPS enthusiast then this game just isn't for you. I've heard Yahtzee's rant about VATS and I say I disagree completely, it honestly amused me to such a degree that I completely forgot I was playing a video game and thought I was watching a movie, then I had to smack myself and pick up my controller. The time line is something I found a bit odd at least from a technological standpoint. Also, I don't usually talk about the graphics in a game, but since I like them, they are glorious at least by my standards and when you stand on a particularly high hill at sunset looking at the D.C. hillside, it makes you stop and look it's so beautiful. All in all, this game deserves its high rating and I say buy the game if it wasn't already bought and played by you.
