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...
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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.
It had great post-apocalypse wasteland atmosphere, way better than Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4.
Some of the questlines are actually good. Say you can steal Declaration of Independence or blow up a big nuke in town.
If you just want to wander in a nuclear wasteland, killing mutants while listening Jazz, this game works better than FNV & Fallout 4.
Some of the engine bugs can be fixed by some ini tweaks.( Maybe GOG can include them in installer?) Some are never fixed but rare. (in my case it was about Creative sound card driver & Win 7) Some bug can be fixed with unofficial patch found on Fallout 3 Nexus.
Still, it is less buggy than Fallout New Vegas.
Typical newer Bethesda game the story is bad the characters are bland the mission design is ok the combat is ok the world is nice to look at but offers not that much depth is still pretty decent tho
well just like in skyrim they did nothing really good but at the same time fails hard in terms of writing
It might have screwed up the lore so badly that Obsidian ran away to the other side of the country to avoid mentioning it, and the world may feel empty at times, but now that it's officially non-XBOX LIVE'D there's a good reason to give it a go.
Fallout 1 and 2 were incredible rpgs, and F3: Van Buren looked amazing.
But Bethesda bought out the franchise.
And then they made this.
Fallout 3 is not a Van Buren, it's an Elder Scrolls game, but a with a different atmosphere.
That's the problem. Fallout is not Elder Scrolls, Obsidian knew this when they made NV, and made a Fallout game. The big key aspect is the writing.
I don't care about the engine, it works fine for me. The shooting is okay, there isn't much for me to talk about here.
Fallout 3 is really badly written. Reaaaallly. There are certain plot holes, the story has a lack of choice, the world ruins some of the most beloved things from Fallout.
The story follows you looking for your Dad, typical beginning for a Fallout story, something small that opens up. But how it opens up is the problem. As the story opens up, you're supposed to have a choice on what goes on, how it opens up. There isn't any moral ambiguity here, there are clear good guys and bad guys in this story, no grey area. This makes the story incredibly shallow. The only options throughout the game were either "be a saint, the savior of the wasteland!" or "be the antichrist who will kill everyone, why, because he's mean!" That ruins the rpg aspects of the story, you don't have any choice. You can't be morally perplexed. The choice is so bad in this game, that you don't even get to start with a clean slate, or at least a little, for what the classic Fallouts delivered. The main story begins with THE MAIN CHARACTER'S BIRTH. LITERALLY. WE GET A FULL MONTAGE OF HIS LIFE. This is not how you start an rpg, you need a main character with an ambiguous past so you can create and understand your character. That's the fun of an rpg, and F3 kinda ruins it.
I guess it's worth checking out if you're really into the Fallout franchise and you're itching for more.
2 stars, a disappointment.
At least it's not Fallout 4, though.
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