![]() ![]() In fact, one of the best compliments to be levelled at Fallout 3 is that it’s every bit as good, if not better, than the Elder Scrolls title. Bethesda’s previous classic was so good though, that this certainly is no hindrance. From this point, the game really does let you do what you want, and it’s up to you whether you’ll be good, bad or indifferent, whether you’ll follow the main story and find your dad, or whether you’ll simply wander off into the wasteland and find your own path.Ĭomparisons to Oblivion are inevitable and unavoidable. This entry to the game is excellent, and when you emerge into the light of the open world, you’re greeted with a mammoth, ruined landscape that, in a frightening post-apocalyptic way, actually looks quite beautiful. Your only option is to escape into the great, wide world of the Capital Wasteland, Washington DC. Your dad has left, somehow, for reasons unknown, and guards are looking for you. You then skip forward to your sixteen year-old self, and have to take a test, which asks various multiple choice questions that will determine the type of character you’ll initially be (but this is a Bethesda game, so this is far from set in stone).Įventually you’re nineteen, and something has gone horribly wrong n the vault. You’re also shown basic combat, and character interaction. Skip forward more, and you’re at your tenth birthday party, and are given a Pip-boy 3000, your wrist-mounted computer, which has many uses, from inventory management and status, to mapping and holding data, as well as being a handy Geiger counter. Here you learn to move, and use a baby reading book to pick your basis stats (strength, endurance, intelligence etc). ![]() We then skip forward a year, and you’re a baby, crawling around a playpen. But I’m confident the overwhelming majority of players will love what’s on offer here. Of course, as with any reboot or sequel of a franchise, hardcore Fallout fans were instantly cynical, which is understandable, as any changes to a much loved formula will always be met with distain at first (don’t get me started on Deus Ex Invisible War!). Hoping to resurrect the ageing franchise, Bethesda, purveyor of such epics as Morrowind and the mighty Oblivion, took the reigns and decided to take the series from old school 2D into full, first and third person 3D, along with the now traditionally humongous world and seemingly never-ending quests that have become synonymous with the talented developer. In fact, ‘good’ would be a woefully large understatement, as this is, in my opinion, the leading candidate for Game of the Year, GTA 4 be damned! Yes, it’s that good.įallout 3 is, unsurprisingly, a continuation of the Fallout series, originally developed by RPG veterans, Black Isle. You could do it yourself if you follow the instructions in the conversion guide linked in the FAQ (its in the section about FO3 mods), and then tinkered a bit with the GECK.Wow, where do you start to review a game like Fallout 3? Well, to begin with, I’m not going to beat around the bush. If you want to encourage someone else to work on it, contact the original author and get permision for a conversion to be released, as doing it from scratch is probably more work and no-one really has much free time. Its not really that much work, the bits of the scripts that need to be redone can be worked out by comparing the TTW version to the mod version in FNVEdit but its more than I want to put in for something that Ill never use that only saves a small amount of time on a sequence I dont do vero often and dont seem to mind it as much as some others. Script that makes the Trait menu appear is overwritten. Quest stages are almost certainly not set correctly for NV stuff that TTW does in the intro sequence. Script that has something to do with the GOAT that TTW commented out an achievement has the comment removed. Script that gives you weapons based on skills doesnt work as its reverted to FO3 by the mod. SPECIAL book appears on the table and functions correctly. You then choose your name, appearance and tags. Animation was a bit funky but that might have been due to Enhanced camera that i didnt deactivate. You get teleported to the room and amata wakes you up. ![]() There is a ~1 second bit where you're in jefferson memorial and you can see dad, li and your mom. ![]()
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