I was so excited for this game. It's a personal gaming dream come true. The original trailer for this was what inspired me to buy a gaming PC, back in 2019. I so want to love it. The trouble is this games does NOT want you to enjoy it. No matter how much time and energy you put into it, all it wants to do is punish you. Basic navigation is a pain. The world is a poorly designed mess, filled with dead-ends and invisible barriers. If you're lucky, you may see an error here and there, clearly a sign the developers realised what a mess they'd made. Crossing London Bridge, you encounter a locked door and a character called Beefy. The game prompts you to talk to Beefy. He has a seemingly never ending speech (and the voice acting here is not good) that you CANNOT interrupt. You can kill him, because this is Fallout, and that's always a fun option. Except this is Fallout London, and fun was not part of the design brief, so killing him does not allow you to progress. There is a huge hole, clearly large enough for you to pass through, but NO, because invisible wall. It's a small thing, but it's so typical of the gameplay experience. I love the Fallout games. I must've put over 1000 hours into Fallout 3. But this, it's just not fun. It's so badly designed. There's a type of enemy I encountered fairly early into the game called Naval Walkers. They are fast, heavily armoured, and explode in a way that kills you instantly. Who could possibly think that was a fun gameplay feature? It's enough of a pain to put up wit the slowest loading times this side of a ZX Spectrum without encountering multiple enemies who rush you en masse and kill you before you barely have a chance to respond. And the loading often does not end. The game, almost a whole year after its (delayed) launch, is stil a mess. Want to have some fun? Look elsewhere. Fun is apparently not allowed in London.
