Fallout 3 Reviews

its really good. first you might be unmotivated but after a while of playing youre gonna be a fallout fan

Incredible, stunning story with janky graphics/mechanics that will leave you thirsty for more even after spending thousands of hours within this marvel. If you love yourself, you'll invest in this game (during a sale of course) and tell your wife to fuck off and allow you to really appreciate what life has to offer... Mutants, alcohol, cannibalism and gory head explosions due to point-blank interactions with combat shotguns.

Good Game Kinda Hard to get it to work but great game for its price

in terms of post apocalyptic games. fallout has always been a pioneer of the genre. for someone looking for an open world survival game with irradiated foes and raiders of survival. This is your game. having played through completion 3 times at least on ps3 to now finishing my 3rd time on pc (first finally getting to play through all the DLCs) this game has it all. the story line and characters are always the same. but the way the npcs and side quest play it makes for many different types of game play. my favorite game of the series since i was younger

good game, more engaging than some other games like 4 which is a great game but easy to get bored with. Based

This is the BEST GAME EVER! I originally played this game on PlayStation 3, but being on a PC makes this perfect game even better. The roleplaying, the acting, and the vibe is UNMATCHED! (Maybe Fallout New Vegas) People who slander this game should be CRUCIFIED! I'm of course joking, but any slander of this work of art is usually from insecure, weak, idiots. Why would you hate this game? If the "gunplay" sucks, INSTALL A MOD! It is SO easy to mod this game too! You don't even need to mod this game to enjoy it and make it stable. It runs pretty damn well without mods. Also, to all the New Vegas fanboys: YOU CAN ENJOY NEW VEGAS AND NOT HATE FALLOUT 3! Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas are both incredible games! Why is it so controversial to enjoy both? it is even more controversial to say Fallout 3 is your favorite Fallout game! I don't care. Everybody who rips on Fallout 3 can go to hell. You NEED to play this game if you have not. I will buy it for you if you ask me!

Very fun game with a decent story but great gameplay and roleplaying

Fallout 3 is a good game and I write this in complete sincerity. One should approach a playthrough of this game much differently than they would with a playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas. This is because the latter is a traditional RPG while the former, despite being marketed as an RPG, is more of an action-adventure dungeon crawler with light RPG elements. Both of these games are good games but have vastly different appeal. What can be expected from Fallout 3 is an extremely amusing journey through a wonderfully crafted post-apocalyptic DC with a satisfying gameplay loop. The reason why I discount role-playing in this game is that it’s something possible only in theory. You ARE presented with choices throughout the game (when the game isn’t forcing you to side with a particular faction or complete a quest in a certain way) and there are plenty of opportunities to define your character as an individual yet most of what this game has to offer is only available by playing a certain way; that is, in adherence to Bethesda Morality. Take on armies of slavers single-handedly with very little incentive to do so! Protect destitute sheepish wastelanders from armed gangs! Clear out an entire city block filled with fire ants along with an entire nest of them just because some random orphan asked you too! These are just a few examples of the silly situations the game thrusts upon the Lone Wanderer and not choosing the ethical option will effectively see you missing out on most of the game’s content. The game’s karma system is equally silly. A few egregious examples of it would be the time I lost karma for shooting a wastelander who dared me to shoot him and defending my home at Tenpenny Tower from ghouls who intended to launch an assault on it. In my opinion, it’s best to just ignore the karma system altogether and when it comes to quests, just do whatever you find to be most amusing. Also, as many Serious Hat video essayists have so brilliantly pontificated about, the world of post-apocalyptic DC is not at all immersive, but in my opinion, this is a good thing. The world of Fallout 3 is genuinely hilarious and it’s as though everything in the original Fallout games that could be considered zany was dialed up exponentially. And of course this game has that old Bethesda charm which made their games so memorable. Nuka Cola is kino. Super mutants are kino. Killing super mutants is kino. Little Lamplight is kino. Harold the Tree is kino. Mothership Zeta is kino. Megaton is kino. Nuking Megaton is kino. Suffice to say, this game is quite the spectacle and will leave you wondering upon completion of a quest, what else is out there in the Capital Wasteland? I feel as though that especially since the advent of Starfield, the older Bethesda games have come under a lot more scrutiny not just in terms of story and worldbuilding but gameplay too. Countless anecdotes found in youtube comments of people talking about how the game is literally (not metaphorically) unplayable have left me wondering, did they play the same game as I did? The build I chose at the start of the game prioritised strength and aptitude with multiple different weapon types so I’d always have a plethora of armaments at my disposal for whatever the Capital Wastelands had in store for me. It’s hard for gameplay to become dull and repetitive when you are constantly changing weapons. Blowing people’s heads off with a combat shotgun and VATS is also always a fun option. Bethesda created a truly epic world with the Capital Wasteland especially the inner city ruins and the abandoned metro system. The soundtrack composed by Inon Zur also does a great job immersing you in exploration. This may be a controversial take but I also quite like the level design in this game enough so to recommend this game as a dungeon crawler. Overall, this game certainly isn’t a masterclass in terms of writing, completely lacking the severity such a setting should convey but nonetheless for the reasons I have outlined above, it has my recommendation and endorsement.

So good I somehow own this game twice on Steam Is the story ass? Yes. Is the port complete dog shit? Yes. Is the gameplay bad? Absolutely. Does this piece of shit not track the playtime correctly? Also yes. Yet somehow, despite on paper resembling the worst game of all time, it'll get you hooked for hours. It's somehow so bad it's good again. It'll make you laugh, it'll make you rage, the effort it takes to get it to run shouldn't be worth it. Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome

Unplayable without extensive modding on any operating system past windows 7, This is contradictory to needing windows 10 or later versions to receive continued updates from the steam client. Will crash every five minutes, and in between crashing will suffer from audio and visual bugs. Either patch the game or take it off the steam store.