Oblivion: Post apocalyptic adventures

User Rating: 7 | Fallout 3 PC
I refuse to accept this as a Fallout-game, like people say "it's oblivion in disguise".

The Combat in the game is exactly the same as in oblivion, it is really clumsy. even the melee and unarmed fight animations are the same as in oblivion, only change is that swords and axes have been changed to baseball bats and tire irons.

I made an unarmed-character because I liked punching and kicking in FO 1&2 where the enemy flew long distances when you did a critical. In this game however, the fighting is the same as in oblivion hit...block...hit...block and hope enemy runs out of hp before you do. There is no cool VATS-critical in HtoH-combat (expect when you get the Power-Fist...or was that cut out?).

Other things this game failed to do are the famous "random encounters", since you just run around the city (which is half the size of oblivion). It was fun to move on the map since you never knew what you would face and with outdoorsman-skill (which FO3 doesn't even have anymore) you could avoid these if you knew the opponent was way too strong. The game doesn't have gambling-skill also but that isn't a big problem since I didn't really take that skill in the earlier FOs.

The voice-acting is also rather bad occasionally, I was expecting Burke to say:"IT'S ALL OVER LAW-BREAKER!" every time he said something. Liam Neeson was nice though and he felt really natural as the father of the PC. The good thing at least is they have hired a few more voice actors than in oblivion where every Imperial Guard sounded like Burke in FO3, and conversation was more like "yes, no, maybe?"


In the end Oblivi...I mean Fallout 3 is a good game but it's definitely not worthy of it's title. Better name would have been Oblivion: Post apocalyptic adventures.

Good thing Interplay is back on it's feet and is planning a fallout MMO, I have high hopes that it will bring the real fallout feel back with better graphics and lot more fallout-antics. I would get it even if it was Fallout 2 with only multiplayer added, I still go back to fallout 2 when im feeling like playing a real RPG-game.