It all starts simply enough... you listen to a brief opening narration before being thrown into the desolate wasteland of the future. After creating your character and getting a short tutorial the vault door swings open and you step outside. What you do from that point on is up to you...
Fallout 3 takes place in the vast, desolate, and beautifully destroyed ruins of our nations capital, Washington D.C. The atmosphere it creates is absolutely beautiful and really pulls the player in. Most of the game will be spent exploring the decaying ruins of ravaged buildings, murky mutant infested caves, and the wide open capital wasteland itself. It'll be lonely at first, but random encounters and helpful companions will keep you company while you look for your dad.
A few settlements dot the hellish landscape, but they are few and far between. The only "cities" you'll find are Megaton, Rivet City, Tenpenny Towers, Underworld, and Paradise Falls, each with their own unique history and residents. Many of the smaller towns and locales you'll visit will only have a dozen or so people in them, but each one is interesting and fun to interact with. Many places are also plagued by problems that the Lone Wanderer can choose to help with... or not.
The actual karma system is a bit flawed, though it works well enough to not be a hindrance when trying to make your character good or evil. Doing evil things like capturing slaves, stealing, and annihilating innocent people with bombs and missiles will cause you to lose karma while doing good things like donating to the poor or rescuing people will cause you to gain karma. Its not perfect, but it could have been worse.
One of the best things about the game is the sheer variety of items available. Armor, weapons, junk... there is so much to find that you won't want to stop until you've combed every last corner of the wasteland for rare goodies. Some powerful equipment can only be received as a reward for completing a quest a certain way, which adds a lot of replay value. Plus, if you get tired of using what's available you can always make your own weapons from schematics that can be bought or found all over the wasteland.
There were some things that bugged me, such as the glitches, but almost everything is great in every way possible. Definitely worth checking out, especially if you like RPG's and shooters.
More refreshing then an ice-cold Nuka Cola Quantum
It all starts simply enough... you listen to a brief opening narration before being thrown into the desolate wasteland of the future. After creating your character and getting a short tutorial the vault door swings open and you step outside. What you do from that point on is up to you...
Fallout 3 takes place in the vast, desolate, and beautifully destroyed ruins of our nations capital, Washington D.C. The atmosphere it creates is absolutely beautiful and really pulls the player in. Most of the game will be spent exploring the decaying ruins of ravaged buildings, murky mutant infested caves, and the wide open capital wasteland itself. It'll be lonely at first, but random encounters and helpful companions will keep you company while you look for your dad.
A few settlements dot the hellish landscape, but they are few and far between. The only "cities" you'll find are Megaton, Rivet City, Tenpenny Towers, Underworld, and Paradise Falls, each with their own unique history and residents. Many of the smaller towns and locales you'll visit will only have a dozen or so people in them, but each one is interesting and fun to interact with. Many places are also plagued by problems that the Lone Wanderer can choose to help with... or not.
The actual karma system is a bit flawed, though it works well enough to not be a hindrance when trying to make your character good or evil. Doing evil things like capturing slaves, stealing, and annihilating innocent people with bombs and missiles will cause you to lose karma while doing good things like donating to the poor or rescuing people will cause you to gain karma. Its not perfect, but it could have been worse.
One of the best things about the game is the sheer variety of items available. Armor, weapons, junk... there is so much to find that you won't want to stop until you've combed every last corner of the wasteland for rare goodies. Some powerful equipment can only be received as a reward for completing a quest a certain way, which adds a lot of replay value. Plus, if you get tired of using what's available you can always make your own weapons from schematics that can be bought or found all over the wasteland.
There were some things that bugged me, such as the glitches, but almost everything is great in every way possible. Definitely worth checking out, especially if you like RPG's and shooters.