Fallout3

I gotta say... I really don't like the game.

I played it and my buds thought it was great and it was awesome and all this... but it suffers the same "chunky" controls that oblivion used and the gunplay is WEAK. Shooting guns in fallout is like... man, I'm not even sure. I don't think I've seen a game with such terrible gunplay since... well... I mean geez I'm trying to think of an example but I can't.

As far as the RPG elements go, it's going to be a good game because it's like Oblivion, but the SECOND I put the game in third person, I lost interest in the game.

Fallout 3 plays like a terrible player-created mod for Oblivion and I think it's a shame that they didn't spend more time on it.

Damn that is a pretty harsh review. I guess you had never played the original Fallout or you might know that the game isn't centered around combat.

didnt need to play the game to know that. yea targeting sucks but im a melee oriented character. its a rpg you just have to actually get better at shooting and keep your guns in working order.

Well the point of the game is not shoot everything that moves the point of the game is and has always been exploration even from the original Fallout days.

The Fallout3 world probably feels like an Oblivion mod because it is provided by Bethesda, the same people that did Oblivion. Fallout3 attempts to model a nuclear wasteland I don't know what one would look like but it might resemble a toilet after a bad Thanksgiving. If nuclear holocaust was a nice thing then we would have had one in real life already.

Despite the world being modeled like a desolate battlefield, there are plenty of interesting things to see if you bother looking around you have to go out and explore. I will admit both Oblivion and Fallout3 have sorry 3rd person perspective but again the game was intended to provide a world for you to explore, action is part of the game but it is not the point of the game the main quest is to find your father and that can be accomplished with little if any violence if you know what you are doing.

If you want a combat focused version of Fallout3 then go play Farcry2. IF you want a 3rd person based combat sim go play Gears of War 1 or 2.

If you want to explore a word at your leisure and perhaps step up to some challenges Play oblivion. If you want to do it in post modern times, play Fallout3.

I know that combat isn't the main feature on the table for Fallout 3, but it's hard to believe that the combat system is so weak. Regarding the combat system alone, if you shoot people in certain parts of their body they don't necessarily react accordingly (unless it's in the head). Sound effects during combat are so cheap it's just sad. Enemies just make loud noises and kinda walk towards you. If they run, they don't really look like they're running... kinda "walking at the speed of running".

Exploring - yes. I'm all for exploring, but I don't just want a huge place to walk around in. You could create the largest game world ever but if you didn't pay attention to the game's largest secondary characteristics, then you'll create a poor game. The biggest characteristics other than exploration, in my opinion, would be character growth and combat. Character growth, as it would seem from me playing for about 2 hours, is taken very lightly and I found it quite easy to level up traits. Combat, being one of the biggest parts of the game besides the aforementioned, is just some of the worst I've ever seen in any video game and when you park the camera in third person, yes, Fallout 3 then seems like a mod of Oblivion.

... They didn't even improve the animations for the characters from Oblivion to Fallout 3... and in my opinion, they're worse, especially in the enemies.

I view Fallout 3 as a rushed title and I guess I just don't understand how it's so big.

the AI isnt all that bad. much better than oblivion's i thought, the enemies dont get caught up in debris. they also try to avoid being hit.

but what everyone is seeming to forget is this game is an rpg. only thing you need to ask yourself is the story decent? and i find yes that its better than decent. not to mention this game has alot of room for individual modders to work in. much like oblivion.

[DarkPacMan77]

Man that's weird. I just really thought there'd be more people that thought it was a bad game. I thought it was rather mediocre. It felt very cheap while playing... i don't know. Usually I'm a really good guess about good or bad games and for me I think it's a very bad game.

-DarkPacMan77-