You take a typical D&D type game, keep in bad mechanics like resting/sleeping to stretch it out, later throw in some sim city town building, and then later you can really clog up the game with town quests, town building, running your town, managing your town. bla Game tries way to hard to do everything and it just turns into a jumbled confusing timed mess. It was ok, but really bogs itself down with stuff that shouldn't be in the game, like the stupid resting system and some other stuff. Not once do i remember wanting to jump into the game just to have some fun for a while, very quickly it becomes a job, not a game.
Think this. Your typical good rpg adventure game, build your character, figure out what stats you want, adventure into the world. You go about fighting battles, looting containers, doing quests, fetch this, look at this, explore here. You pass various attribute and skill checks and can make up the smart mage, or sly thief, or bruting warrior. Now, instead of a fantasy npc character your a detective who you can build different ways. And now take out any combat or fighting. That is what you have here, a rpg adventure game without a party, without fighting, just a game of fetch quests and attribute/skill checks. While different and entertaining, it is pretty boring after a while as the entire game is trying to figure out just 1 murder. Oh, and passing a zillion attribute/skill checks while looting stuff and building up your skills. If you want a fun normal rpg game, buy one of the dozens out there, if you want something a little different, buy it on sale only.
a lot of people have said their GOG version works, sadly mine still works the same as any other version of Fallout 3 works.. it doesn't. Bought it to try to see if the GOG version worked any better, still get the same crashes, problems, etc as any other version. So sorry this is in the 1 star catagory of buying games that don't work on your modern computer.
