Going along in the wastes on your own is never fun...fighting with the Brotherhood of Steel is where it is at.
The weapons are there the way the weapons rip people apart when you hit a nice crit hit on them plus like in the older games the vats system let toy hit places which would gain you a real upper hand in combat.
The main selling point of this game would be the control as in the control you have over you team mates...no longer are they following you around like the past two games here you get to move them about and control who they fire at and with what weapons. You can now set traps that will work of fail because it was your fault and not the stuipid AI for runinng in trying to do hand to hand combat when they have a shotgun to hand.
Fallout Tactics also has a very very fun MP side to it that the other two games did not. Fighting it out as a team laying mines and setting ambushes with snipers are all in a days work.
If you a fallout fan and you have somehow missed thia game then you should hunt this game down. If your not a fan or you have not played any of the other fallout games this may well be a good place to start.