Prepare for the Future™
With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Editio...
2009,
Bethesda Game Studios, ESRB Rating: Mature 17+...
System requirements
Windows 10, 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent, 2 GB RAM, Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with...
Description
Prepare for the Future™
With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition includes all five of the Fallout 3 Game Add-on Packs:
Operation: Anchorage - Enter a military simulation and fight in the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders.
The Pitt - Travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh and become embroiled in a conflict between slaves and their Raider masters.
Broken Steel - Increase your level cap to 30, and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime.
Point Lookout - Embark on a mysterious and open-ended adventure in a huge, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland.
Mothership Zeta - Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the alien mothership, orbiting miles above the Capital Wasteland.
Main Features:
Limitless Freedom - Take in the sights and sounds of the vast Capital Wasteland! See the great monuments of the United States lying in post-apocalyptic ruin! You make the choices that define you and change the world. Just keep an eye on your Rad Meter!
Experience S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Vault-Tec engineers bring you the latest in human ability simulation — the SPECIAL Character System! Utilizing new breakthroughs in points-based ability representation, SPECIAL affords unlimited customization of your character. Also included are dozens of unique skills and perks to choose from, each with a dazzling variety of effects!
Fantastic New Views - The wizards at Vault-Tec have done it again! No longer constrained to just one view, experience the world from 1st or 3rd person perspective. Customize your view with the touch of a button!
The Power of Choice - Feeling like a dastardly villain today, or a Good Samaritan? Pick a side or walk the line, as every situation can be dealt with in many different ways. Talk out your problems in a civilized fashion, or just flash your Plasma Rifle.
Blast 'Em Away With V.A.T.S. - Even the odds in combat with the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System for your Pip-Boy Model 3000! V.A.T.S. allows you to pause time in combat, target specific body parts on your target, queue up attacks, and let Vault-Tec take out your aggression for you. Rain death and destruction in an all-new cinematic presentation.
Mind-Blowing Artificial Intelligence - At Vault-Tec, we realize that the key to reviving civilization after a global nuclear war is people. Our best minds pooled their efforts to produce an advanced version of Radiant AI, America's First Choice in Human Interaction Simulation. Facial expressions, gestures, unique dialog, and lifelike behavior are brought together with stunning results by the latest in Vault-Tec technology.
Eye-Popping Prettiness* - Witness the harsh realities of nuclear fallout rendered like never before in modern super-deluxe HD graphics. From the barren Wasteland, to the danger-filled offices and metro tunnels of DC, to the hideous rotten flesh of a mutant's face. *Protective Eyewear Encouraged.
I'm really happy that you've made this game, which is one of my favorite Fallouts next to New Vegas. I only managed to get the Steam version to work with great difficulty and a few adjustments, and it was pretty buggy. Thank you for giving this old classic so much love and finally getting it to work on newer systems, which has brought a part of my youth back to life.
I initially tried buying this game on steam, but no matter what workaround I tried, it wouldn't go past the start menu. This version has worked beautifully without any bugs or glitches! I couldn't recommend it more.
This doesn't run, I'm not sure if it's Windows 10 or the fact I've got an Nvidia GPU but either way Fallout 3 doesn't work for me. Googling the situation indicates this problem affects a vast amount of other users. Unless you are certain this will run on your hardware, do not buy. For myself there was nothing to indicate it wouldn't work, and as this is GOG I was complacent in believing the game would work right out of the box.
Lesson learned.
So I wanted to finally play the infamous Fallout 3 after countless hours in other Fallout games, including god tier first two isometric parts, great New Vegas from Obsidian Entertainment, mediocre fourth part and overwhelmingly laughable Fallout 76.
Steam version of the game that I own is not optimised for modern system as the F3 Steam page states, so I was avoiding it due to the fact that I'm incredibly tired at modding Bethesda games. Then I stumbled upon GOG. Fallout 3 GOG page states that this game is compatible with modern systems, so I immediately bought it since there was a big discount, believing that my prayers have been answered.
GOG isn't lying, even though after launcing the game you see a warning about compatibility issues the game runs flawlessly on Windows 10, Ryzen 7 3700X and RTX 2060 Super, but there is one little issue I have with the game. Fallout 3 came out 12 years ago, and by this day's standarts it's outdated and at some points unbalanced and raw, classic Bethesda. So you need to overcome yourself and start modding, that's exactly what I did.
I've never seen such a broken piece of code before, but Fallout 3 took the golden award for that, after installing few mods that tweak the balance, light texture mods like impoved weapons, characters and surroundings and couple more quality of life changes the game managed to become incredibly unstable. Quest started to break, NPCs started doing god knows what like simply not appearing in the places they should and the game manages to crash a lot, even when I'm not touching mouse and keyboard, it lauches properly only after a couple of attempts, it's disgusting, and I'm not new to modding scene. I had to reinstall a game around 5-6 times to start my modding experience from scratch.
Few days later I decided to install only the most important mods, nothing too critical or big and only then it finally decided to work stable.
In conclusion, I still hate you Bethesda, screw you.
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