Fallout 3: Game of The Year Edition
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If you haven’t played this yet, do yourself a favor and buy it now. It really is a great value with all the expansions and they really do make the game better and add to replay value.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fallout 3: Game of the Year edition is quite possibly the pinnacle of the action/RPG genre. Considering the original Fallout 3 was astonishing, the GOTY edition only adds to its incredible gameplay and content. It is such an incredible value, having included all five expansion packs (which comes on a second disc). If you’ve never experienced the world that is Fallout 3, do yourself a favor and get the GOTY edition.
I have the original Fallout 3 on PC, but I wanted all of the expansion packs in an easy, convenient package. I also thought I’d try the game out on a console so that I could see it on my big 40″ LCD and see how a controller worked with the game. I decided to get the 360 version rather than the PS3 version due to stories of the PS3 version freezing and crashing. It’s unfortunate that Bethesda didn’t give the PS3 as much love as the PC and 360. Oh well.
The GOTY edition on the 360 looks and runs great. It doesn’t have quite as detailed graphics as the PC version, but it still looks amazing. You can pick up and manipulate just about anything in the environment. NPC’s still have that stiff, plasticky look to them, but that’s not a deal breaker. When you take into account the grand scope of this game, the developers made everything eye catching.
You’ll likely need the strategy guide to get the most out of the game and the expansion packs. I got the limited edition, hardcover guide and am very satisfied with it. It would be easy to get lost in the Fallout world without some direction, but luckily there are a lot of online resources if you prefer that.
For $60, you are definitely getting your money’s worth. It’s a game that provides almost limitless freedom, so it will consume a lot of your time. That’s not a bad thing considering the quality you’re getting.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this game with my Christmas money because me and a friend where at game stop and we wanted a game. We had decided that we were going to get 1 of 2 games either fallout 3 or Cod 5 and i got to say this is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I loved this game so much I have beaten it over 5 times!!!!
I rate this game number 1 out of all of the games I have played in my whole life. We loved it so much that we played it all night into the morning that night we bought it. With 5 expansions this game got even better and now with the game of the year edition with all of the expansions all put into one disk at that low of a price you would be crazy not to buy it. This game includes action, shooting, aliens, monsters, explosions, fighting, outer space, friendship, war, and many other things I cant think of right now. The only thing this game is missing is cars and online playing. The only reason they didn’t do online was because it would be impossible with the VATS guidance system in your pit boy which slows down and stops time.
I don’t know one person who doesn’t completely love this game so it would make a great birthday or Christmas present. I recommend you go to your closest game stop or walmart and go and buy this game right now its that good.
I rate this game 5 out of 5 stars
Rating: 5 / 5
Ever wondered how humanity would survive after the fallout of nuclear war? How seemingly normal people would react if they went from a life of relative luxury to that of a hostile, radiation and violent super-mutant filled, environment? The previous 2 Fallout games explored this angle through bird’s-eye view RPGs (similar to Runescape and Diablo), but Fallout 3 explores this idea through first and third-person shooter perspective in the wasteland that was once Washington DC and the surrounding metro area. You assume the role of the “lone wanderer,” a survivor in Vault 101 that exits the sanctity of his/her home in search of their father. Along the way you battle super mutants, heavily mutated scorpions, crabs, bugs, and robotic remnants of the US Army. You also interact with a large variety of people (with full voice acting) and either help or hinder their efforts to survive.
You can become a bastion of hope, a harbinger of death, or play Switzerland and remain completely neutral with every choice you make. Combining dialogue features akin to Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect, you alone, determine the fate of the Capitol Wasteland.
Thus endeth the introduction.
To any of you, who have not played Fallout 3 and wanted to enjoy a great open-ended RPG with a LOT of exploring, I strongly encourage you to check out this packaging and NOT get the original version of the game. Ignore the fact that it costs less because you’re getting more bang for your buck here.
Why, you ask? Well, let me explain from the perspective of someone who bought the game (at full price) when it originally came out in 2008.
For a few of us, the Fallout 3 Game of the Year package is a slap in the face since we spent full price on the game and 1/4th that for every expansion set out there (see my review on Broken Steel/Point Lookout) and then this complete package set comes out less than a year after the release of the original game.
Oh well, my heart will go on!
In the meantime, the Game of the Year packing has got to be the best idea Bethseda has come up with since they re-released the first two Fallout games and expansions on the PC. It includes not just the game itself but all five expansions including the new Mothership Zeta (which I am currently playing and having a blast with). This means newcomers to Fallout 3 will not have the misfortune of playing the game for 30-50 hours, beating the game and then realizing that the ending sucks and there’s nothing else to do. That was the curse of the original game, however, with the Broken Steel expansion not only do you raise the level cap from 20 to 30 but you have post-ending game content with and open-ending game play as well.
While Broken Steel is probably the nicest expansion in the Game of the Year edition, the newest one not yet available for mass (offline) purchase is Mothership Zeta. Released, so far, only as a download on XBox Live, Mothership Zeta was not available for those of us who do not play online so its inclusion into this packing really makes a difference. Not to mention I have heard that many original glitches, such as audio loops causing the game to fail advance the story, have been fixed.
In fact, my Broken Steel/Point Lookout expansion caused my game to go into a dialogue loop at the very end of the game and, since I used nothing but autosave like an idiot, I could not revert and try again. What I ended up doing was erasing all the expansions I had on my Xbox hard drive and, using the expansion disk from the Game of the Year packaging, reinstalled them and the glitch was fixed. If you experience the same problem I had, try this method.
Other than that, the other expansions (such as Operation Anchorage and The Pitt), offer little more than extra quests and more gear including some slick weapons. Point Lookout, however, offers more of the same but with a massive new map for exploration and the farming of new weapons.
All in all, Fallout 3 Game of the Year packaging is a must have for any newcomers to Fallout 3. Not so much for veteran players since we’ve already spent waaaaay too much on everything already. I only bought it because I was using my brother’s copy in the meantime.
Peace out!
Rating: 5 / 5
DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND MY CONTROL MY X360 WENT RED RING OF DEATH AFTER 3 YEARS 5 WEEKS AND DUE TO MY INVESTMENT OF TIME AND MONEY I WILL NO LONGER BE GAMBLING ON MICROSOFT ANY LONGER-I’M ALL PS3 NOW THANK GOODNESS I HAD SOME TIME WITH FALLOUT3 BEFORE IT DIED BECAUSE IT’S A GREAT GAME-BUY BUT BUY ON PS3-PLEASE OR SOMEDAY YOU WILL BE SORRY I AM!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5