Fallout 3 - Game Of The Year Edition (PS3)

I know Fallout 3 came out almost 4 years ago, followed by the GOTY Edition, but I purchased it recently to see why it is highly rated. I will avoid spoiling the story for those who have not played the game by going in into big details. But, to summarise in a nutshell, the game focuses on your character, that has lived in the comfort and security of the *Vault* since birth, suddenly leaving after his/her father to the outside world which is a post atomic/apocolyptic wasteland, in order to chase him up. The rest is up to you to find out. The game is absolutely brilliant in terms of what it offers, it is massive in size and there are so many in-game locations to discover and visit that have a story (sometimes freaky) to explore and discover. You will spend hours upon hours trying to play through all the missions (especially if you are a trophy hunter like myself) and going back and forth between locations, which has been made easy thanks to the fast-travel feature. It does start off a bit slow and the graphics at the beginning are not that pretty but once you get through the first part, things start looking better. I like how you can alternate between first-person and third-person view to suit your individual taste. I prefer the third-person perspective and panning the camera in so it is just behind my characters right shoulder (reminiscent of the camera angle in Resident Evil 4). The unique VATS aiming system is quite clever yet albeit slightly frustrating at times (some shots which should easily hit target still end up missing!). However, the results are also quite gruesome yet fun to watch most of the times, considering how an enemys head may fly off in a violent eruption of blood and gore, or get blown to tiny chunks of blood and bone! Even limbs will fly off at death, if shot at! its also impressive considering how many lines of script have been included as non-playable characters say many different things making the game a very real experience. However, on a negative side, there are numerous tech issues which quite honestly should not have been in the GOTY version. You will experience numerous game freezing incidents and crashes throughout the campaign requiring to reset your system. Sometimes when you aim manually you will find bullets going through an enemy head and not harming them - silly to be honest. Also, there is a bug which Bethesda should have fixed with a patch which is potentially GAME-BREAKING!! (thankfully I found a way through after spending time online looking for a solution - thanks Youtube!). The bug involved unlocking a door in Vault 112 with a key which was practically NON-EXISTANT in the game! If you get into a similar position as me, look for *fallout 3 vault 12 failsafe code* video on Youtube, to stand a chance! Just remember to make regular save files for backup, in case things go wrong!!! Despite these issues, I really have enjoyed Fallout 3 from what I have played so far. I strongly recommend it to all gamers who have not played it. For a 2008 game its brilliant yet four years later (as of today) it is still a gem to play! The positive points easily outweigh the negative points. Bethesda has managed to create such a surreal yet realistic experience with Fallout 3 and as a result it is one of the best games you will play. Highly Recommended - 92/100

What A Game

This four year old game has been reviewed extensively so in keeping with my other RPG reviews, I'm going to try and give a female gamer perspective on it. First of all, if you have the choice, get the xbox version. I've played both and the xbox version runs better and crashes less often. It's particularly noticeable when you're high level and are working through the DLC. So you want to be a post-apocalyptic gun toting bad-ass chick? This game is definitely worth a look. There are quests for heros, quests for dubious canabalistic vampire types and you can even join up with the slavers. The engine keeps track of all this with a karma system. There are NPC followers who will only join you if your karma is good, bad or neutral. Even the house you get depends on whether you choose to help a town, or blow it up. In that sense, I find this game less constraining than FO:NV where factions will quickly hate you if you kill a few of them, even if you left no witnesses (some sort of unexplained magic I guess - which is a whole other rant about developers making up rules that have no basis in the game world they've created). So lets look at a few specifics. Character? Alright, considering the age of the game. Female protagonist is an option and she can have wild purple hair if you like. Armour comes in varying degrees of flattery from Raider Painspike, which seems to involve a bra made out of colanders, to full power armour that makes you look like a genderless robot. None of it can be improved beyond it's maximum armour value which means if you fancy wearing raider armour as a higher level character, you might need to turn the difficulty setting down a notch. Romance? No. Followers? Renegades get a follower earlier than heros, unless you know exactly where to go to get Dogmeat. They're fairly basic but solid on the whole. With the Broken steel add-on that comes with this edition, two of them become virtually indestructible which forced me to turn up the difficulty setting to maximum when I was a high level character. Loot and inventory? Fairly good and intuitive. I'm not much of an FPS fan, so this game has more than enough choice of weapons and armour for me. All of it needs to be maintained which with your repair skill you can do yourself, or pay some NPCs to do it for you. Big guns are plentiful and look really cool in third person mode one-on-one with a Deathclaw. Combat? First person with the option to zoom out to third person. In my experience, the third person perspective only works well with VATS (the computer targeting system) or with melee weapons. Third person is more playable in FO:NV. So you can either aim and shoot, or drop into VATS and pick your targets while the game is effectively paused. DLC? Mixed bag. I couldn't finish Operation Anchorage because I kept drifting off. I can imagine the design meeting: 'what this roleplaying game needs is a first-person shooter DLC'. No, it didn't. It needed DLC with a good storyline. Mothership Zeta. Framerate all over the place and the story wasn't good enough to compensate. Again, didn't finish it. Point Lookout. Fallout 3 gets a few tribes and some freaky inbred hillbillies. It's a lot better than it sounds. It also has some intriguing side-quests, discoverables and the gaming equivalent of an acid trip. Arguably one of the best of the DLCs because you get a whole new Island to explore. The Pitt. A dark journey into a world of slavery. The story is alright but a bit linear and the quest markers are even more dodgy than usual. Very satisfying slaughter match at the end with evil NPCs that needed to DIE! Broken Steel: I hardly think of this as DLC because it continues seamlessly from the end of the main quest. Good loot, reasonable climax, new places to explore, but really, Sarah Lyons should have been available as a follower. So all in all, not bad for a four year old game although it would have been nice to be able to join a raider gang or something. Sure you can join the slavers but the leader is ugly, has a heart shaped velvet bed and a female sex slave. Not my kind of gang.

This game is by far one of the best games that I will ever play, I would highly recommend buying this as it is definitely worth the £13 or whatever, I have rarely had any problems with the game itself, it's froze twice in around 50 hours game time, which is effectively once of a day game time which isn't bad. The original by itself was one of the best games ever and with the dlc's it has become the game that I will never sell, it is incredible how good the actual depth of the game is, how much detail the graphics have been put into. I'd recommend getting the GOTY edition as it will save you around £20 as you won't have to buy the actual game and also the dlc's from the playstation store. Also it will save you hours of downloading. One of the problems that I have with the game though is that for less experienced players of this type of game (Like I was when the game was launched in 2008) is that it can be rather difficult to feel the vibe that a player that is more experienced gets from the game, which may send you away if you're that player, however if you are definitely stick to it and sooner or later you'll become enthralled in the game and you'll never regret buying it once you understand the way the game works etc. The dlc's are fantastic, the one I have a problem with though is the Mothership Zeta as it is not as good as the other 4 also it doesn't feel the same with the game as the other 4 do, the other dlc's compliment the game so well it is unbelivable, but that is the only complaint with the dlc's and the game as a whole really. If you're thinking of buying a game like this then definitely buy this you will not regret it, one of the best games I have ever played. Ratings: Graphics - 9/10 Dlc's - 9/10 Game as a whole - 10/10 Variety - 10/10

Beware! This is not the normal version! I received the Essencials edition. It is the same game but since Amazon provides a page for the normal game and the Essencials editions it's ridiculous to receive the Essencials edition.... The game is great but I gave 1 star because of the mistake...

...at which point it gives you trouble due to freezing. Truly, I love this game. I love the massive wide-open spaces, the hundreds of little side-quests and places to investigate, I love the interaction, the fighting model and most of all I love the atmosphere created when outside at night, inside a broken-down old building or creeping stealthily around a ruined city. The game of the year edition really just adds more of the same greatness onto and already fantastic platform. The one thing that really really pi$$es me off is the freezing that goes on when you've logged a lot of hours. It can happen anytime; but as the game goes on (+20 or 30 hours) you'll see it more and more. Its the only thing that lets the game down for me - and unfortunately it's a biggie. So, for the first flush of game-play I'd say: awesome, spectacular, buy it! But for the end-game, running around really powerful toasting everything in sight and generally mopping up the quests you shied away from earlier...I'd say... disappointing. Overall - ok (3 stars)

this game will eat into your life and keep you interested throughout its huge world. If you are new to fallout the game plonks you into a nuclear war wrecked Washington dc. you crawl out from your fallout shelter and go looking for your dad who has left the shelter without you. a simple enough plot which grows exponentially as you play, there is always something new to do or find in the huge sandbox environment. the view is either first or third person as you choose and is controlled in a familiar way to most games. you use weapons ranging from kitchen knives all the way up to the mini nuke firing "Fatman" launcher. the combat is a little clunky at times but still fun enough, the V.A.T.S system pauses the game and allows you to select certain body parts to aim for which will use ability points to do so but ensures you can usually land a good if not fatal shot on your target. your foes range from giant mutated rats all the way up to supermutants as well as humans intent on robbing you and leaving you for dead!. The game can rack up a lot of hours of play ( I think mine was well over 100) and with all of the add on content included you will be in for a huge experience. my only pet hate with fallout is that it has a nasty habit of freezing up on you and making you reset your console (luckily the game autosaves a lot as you play). I whole heartedly recommend this game so long as you don't mind it eating up your life for a couple of months!

Fallout 3 is a labour of love, a total immesrsive experience that is intricate and brilliantly written. The Game of the Year Edition just compliments it giving you the extra bang for your buck and expanding an already enormous game environment. The landscape is tremendous and the stories and subplots spin off in so many directions that you rarely ever get bored. The retro futuristic technology is to die for and if you didn't like old fashioned music before this surely will make you a fan, the wonderful radio stations hark back to a golden age where things were crafted with love, the music sets the scenes perfectly, my only gripe is in the end I wanted more. The alternate universe where the classic 1950s age of atomic science fiction ruled and became a reality feel gives this game a feel and texture like no other. If it has one flaw then its the bugs and glitches that perhaps are caused by such a massive world environment that is so detailed that programmers ambition perhaps outweighs the console / Pc's capabilities slightly. Still this game has more than enough charm and charisma for you to overlook this minor irritation. Beautifully crafted, fantastic interesting characters, wonderful music and bucket loads of technology and blood! 5 Star Gaming at its best! From Postapocalyptia this is Threeeeeeee Dog bringing you the truth no matter how bad it hurts!

追加コンテンツなしの、いわゆる通常版でもフリーズ上等、日本版は翻訳もお粗末。 Game of the year版では、追加コンテンツと共に新たなバグまで追加されたと聞く。 それでも愛されるFOの余りある面白さは、なかなか言葉だけでは説明し切れない。 でも敢えて表現するなら、その自由度と世界観は最も評価される重要な魅力だろう。 完全無欠の救世主にも、極悪非道の殺人鬼にもなれる。 勿論どっちつかずの風来坊にもなれるし、誰にもそれを責められたりもしない。 最終戦争後の荒廃した広大な世界の中で、何処へ行こうが、何をしようが、全て自分次第。 しかも、追加コンテンツによりエンディング後の世界に突入可能になり、事実上エンドレスになった。 終わらせるか否かすら自由という究極の自由度に到達した様は、正にRPGの集大成と呼ばれるに相応しい。 ちなみに主人公は、性別も人種も顔すらもプレイヤーの分身のように設定することが可能である。 弱い頃は、命がけで空き缶やガラクタを拾い、小銭を稼いでやっと安い武器を手に入れるだろう。 だが苦労の末、旅に慣れる頃には、自ずとターミネーターよろしくロケランやプラズマ銃を乱射する歩く最終兵器となる。 一度踏み入れたら、出たくなくなるくらい素敵な世界ではないだろうか。 FOシリーズの次回作を、異常なまでの期待をもって待ち望んでいるのは私だけではない筈である。 アクションRPGとして、FOシリーズほどのゲームは無いと自信をもってオススメする所存である。

Le jeu est incroyable, pour ce qui sont fans de Fallout c'est un titre a ne pas rater, pour ce qui veulent commencer, mes recommandations. Je suis très satisfait, même ma copine qui cherche les "secrets" du jeu à côté de moi ! :) Merci pour la vente !

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Lo compré para mi marido pero el pobre no puede jugar porque no habla inglés y esta versión no tiene subtítulos ni nada en español.

言われるようにバグについて多く問題があるゲームなのだが…、 （通常版プレイ済みの人向けに参考までに書いてみました） PS3は160GBのタイプで容量は半分余裕を取ってある状態でプレイしてみた。 熱暴走がないように常にエアコンが効いている部屋で摂氏28程度を維持させている状態の部屋で使用。 設定：睡眠時のオートセーブ：ON 待機時のオートセーブ：ON エリア移動時：OFF 8000KBまでのセーブデータまでやり、DLCのOperation AnchorageとMothership Zetaの追加クエストまでを終了（Lv18) 同時にPoint LookoutとBroken Steelが発生中の段階で記載。 6-7割程度までのマッピング（屋外）と４割程度の屋内ダンジョン探索完了、ここまでで完全なフリーズは１−２回程度。（データロード中にフリーズが１回） 処理落ちは屋外で多く目立つが一時的の時もある。何かのイベントが起きる時、例えば特定の屋外でランダムに発生するような事がある場合に重くなったりする。 約4000KBに達するとこの程度の症状が見られ始める。 序盤は特に処理落ちしないが、プレーヤーのいる付近で気づかないでAI同士の乱戦が発生している場合に急激に重くなる場合も。 5000KBを超えた頃にPip-boyを開いたりV.A.T.S使用する操作をすると一時負荷が掛かった様な症状が見られた（不特定の場所） まれに本当にフリーズしたかと思われる時があるが、PSボタンを数秒押して”本体の電源を切るOR終了しますか”画面が出るまでしばらく待ち、そのままゲームに戻ると何事もなく普通に続行できる（念のため要セーブ）＊本当に終了しないように注意。 爆発などで重くなるような症状はこの段階では特に見られなかった、従事者を引き連れていたりする方が突発的に重くなる時が多い。 ＊どの程度データ量を節約出来るか分からないが、ダンジョンに落ちているゴミ（収容できる不要なモノ）は可能な限り収拾して売却するなり、屋外の再復活する死体に放り込んで消化してプレイ中。 他、Broken Steelを発生させると敵AIがFO3ベガス版クラスのモノが出てくるために注意、敵によっては”弱い同行者”が秒殺されてしまう。 描画の隙間を利用して意図的にBOSの本部へ入りメインクエスト強制発生（終盤へ進行済み）したり、思わぬ負荷が序盤から出ないように通常版とは切り分けプレイするべき。ただそれはそれで面白いかもだが…。