Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

40 to 100 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Amazing"

ok being a BIG fan of oblivion and bethsoft in general, i was really excited to get my copy of FO3!!!
having put over 200 hours into the previous elder scrolls title, i was hoping that this title would give me the same amount of satisfaction & playing time as beth's other RPG and boy i was bnot wrong!!!

ok read some of the professional reviews if you want to know more about the story, technical stuff etc, i am just a gamer who loved games and want to let others know how amazing FO3 is!

i have played 40 hours to date, and enjoying every sec, you can adjust the difficulty slider if things get too rough for you and you can save your game anywhere which is a huge bonus in todays games as a lot of other titles do not have this feature.

FO3 can be played from a first or 3rd person perspective and this is easily toggled with the left bumper, plus you can zoom in or out pretty far, even as far to please the more old school isometric fallout 3 fanboys :) to give that 'top shot' feel to it!
1st person is more immersive imo, but i do like to have a gears of war style over the shoulder view to check out my guys armor etc plus sometimes hiding round corners is good to get a 'sneak peak' @ the threat(s) that are awaiting you!

now VATS, is a love or hate thing, i personally love it as it makes a change from my usual diet of twitch 3rd and 1st person frag fests, not that i sometimes dont play FO3 like that,,,,,,i do :)
but its nice to kick back, whack VATS on and watch a cool as ice, cinematic cut scene play out where you character goes all bad a$$ on some post apocalyptic mutant!! slow mo style!!

the visuals in FO3 are stunning, taking into account how BIG and HUGE this gameworld is, you can roam around for HOURS, just exploring and finding stuff, and FO3's level up system and its 'perks' are awesome!!!

so if you like MASSIVE, open world RPG's with some FPS elements thrown in all wrapped up in a cool story with fantastic replay value and has legs longer than the empire state then fallout 3 might just be the game you will never fallout with :)

(sorry i had to do it!!)

peace

Bad Monk
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