Fun apocolypse: A Fallout 3 review

Fallout 3 is an open world action role playing game that immerses you in a post apocalyptic world in the year 2277. Though the game may have been made back in 2008 by Bethesda Game Studios I wouldn't let its age fool you. Like I said before Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, just 36 years after its previous installment, Fallout 2, and 200 years after the nuclear apocalypse. As the player, your character is an inhabitant of vault 101, one of the many vaults built to withstand the effects of nuclear fallout. When your father mysteriously disappears under strange circumstances and the vault's leader, the Overseer, initiates martial law, sending security after your character, you are then forced to escape and journey into the outside world none as "The Wastelands."
Once in the Wastelands you must travel all over this open world in search of your father. As you explore you will meet a variety of characters whom which you may ask to join you.
You may have a maximum of 3 party members which include a dog named "Dogmeat" and a single non player character. Health is divided into general health and limb health. Limbs can be crippled causing you to experience more difficulty in playing and general health is your over all health which if depleted, you die. You can use a stimpak to heal both and food and water are available throughout the wastes. Weapons slowly degrade over time so you must repair them or find someone else to do so other wise your weapon will break and be of no use. Weapons range from a wide variety of things from pistols to plasma rifles, even to a rocket launcher that shoots anything you put in it. Fallout 3 features a cool little gizmo known as VATS, also know as, "Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System." When using VATS you can aim at a particular part of the enemy's body hoping to do crippling damage or go for that head shot. VATS displays damage you will do, limb health, current action points, the percentage of you actually hitting your target as well as the name of whatever it is you are attacking. Using VATS however costs action points which regenerate over time and the number of action points you receive can be increased by certain attributes. On your journey through out the Wastelands you will be confronted by many different types of enemies from the common raider to ghouls, super mutants and much more.

All in all this is a wonderful game that is never the same each time you play it through. Graphics are decent but its the story and the gameplay its self that really make you fall in love with the game. I personally love this game and have played through several times.

VERDICT:  8.5

Link to a video review as well:  Video Review

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