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Buy DVD - Fallout 3
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List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $37.90
Your Save: $ 12.09 ( 24% )
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Manufacturer: Bethesda Softworks
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 204
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Bethesda
EAN: 0093155126909
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Feature: Fight for survival against terrors of the outside world, radiation, and mutants after nuclear fallout
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Bethesda Softworks
Manufacturer: Bethesda Softworks
Model: 12690
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Release Date: 2008-10-28
Studio: Bethesda Softworks
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Features
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Fight for survival against terrors of the outside world, radiation, and mutants after nuclear fallout
Latest in human ability simulation affords unlimited customization of characters
Expansive world in modern super-deluxe HD graphics
Features ability to pause time in combat, target specific body parts, and queue up attacks
1st- or 3rd-person perspective
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Is it perfect? No. Does it rock? Yes.
Comment: Having played the previous fallouts (and especially loving #2), I couldn't wait for this game to come out. While it is far from perfect, I still feel it encompasses the essence of fallout and is faithful to the original series. It also takes up a large chunk of time if you go out exploring and doing side quests. The storyline may be a little weak, but I didn't necessarily feel it was that strong in the previous stories.
Many of the complaints extend from the game being too easy late in the game or lack of i world impact (what you do at X impacts Y). Based off fallout 2, I have to disagree with these sentiments. While the characters and speech may be better in the 2nd, I found fallout 2 to be quite easy... high power weapon + target eyes = easy kills. Also, much of the X impacts Y arguments revolve around the ending giving you a few sentences based on what you did. Woopdedoo. I also recall plenty of bugged side quests in fallout 2, so this game was far from perfect.
I guess what makes the game for me are some of the crazy battles and encounters I've had. I end up going into work chatting it up with a friend about what occurred the night prior. To me, that means I'm playing a great (but not perfect) game.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another terrific game from Bethesda
Comment: My first experience with a Bethesda product was Daggerfall back around 1995. Since then, I've played many more of their games, and nearly every one is fantastic. Redguard I've played through multiple times. Morrowind looked great, and I wanted to love it, but I always found myself battling with the interface. But they totally fixed that with Oblivion, which was absolutely amazing. I also loved how it was open-ended enough to allow for the expansion even after beating the game. Fallout 3 is built on top of the Oblivion engine, which makes it a visually stunning delight to play. I completed it at level 17, but then went back to do a bunch of the side quests, collect more bobbleheads, and try some of the alternate endings.
I deducted one star in the overall rating because it has crashed a few times, you can't gain experience beyond level 20, and the bobblehead in Ravenhold can't be retrieved if you miss it your first trip in. Aside from those minor inconveniences I would recommend this game to anyone who loves RPGs.
Also, I have to say that I didn't have any problems with the DRM. Fallout3 uses SecuROM to perform a disc-check only (none of the limited installations or secret network traffic stuff). After installing the game, it ran from the disc fine. I made an image of the disc using Alcohol120%, since I hate it when discs get scratched. When I tried running from the image using Daemon Tools however, it said it detected the emulation software. Going back to the physical disc it worked again. So it did exactly what it was designed to do, and I still got to enjoy every aspect of this beautiful game.
Keep up the great work, Bethesda!
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Summary: An amazing game
Comment: This is an amazing RPG / FPS hybrid. If you liked Deus Ex or any RPGs you must play this game. The PC version has some minor problems here and there, but no major issues. The PC version will also have DL content. The best feature of PC (other than better graphics) is mods. There are ALOT of really good mods that add content or features that the game was missing.
This is a must play, even if it isn't Fallout 1 / 2.
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Summary: Maybe I was expecting too much...
Comment: Perhaps I built this game up too much in my head, given that I've been a big fan of Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics, but this game just barely failed to live up to the hype in my head. Don't get me wrong, its an amazing game with way more space than I could ever care to explore. The wasteland is HUGE and beautifully rendered (for a post-apocalyptic wasteland), the combat system is innovative and easy to figure out, and the characters look amazing. But after all the 95-100% ratings I saw for this game, I was expecting something that would completely engulf me for days, permanently redefine my gaming experience; this is not that game. After a while many aspects of the game, from combat to dialogue, become rather formulaic, and the main story line involves a surprisingly small range and number of stops considering the size of the map. An expansion might help, but I'm not sure how they could work it in.
So by all means, if you enjoy the Fallout series or other RPG/FPS games, then buy this game immediately, it's amazing, and well worth the money. But if you're expecting it to change your life after you've played it, you're headed toward disappointment.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Oblivion with Guns
Comment: It seemed like it was based on the Oblivion engine, so it had Havok physics. However, if you played other games by Bethesda, such as Morrowind, the game feels a bit more limited due to invisible barriers (like climbing over rubble and finding you can't go any further). It has a very similar speaking style to the original Fallout where you can choose from many different options, i.e. where you can be a jerk or nice to someone. Sometimes the VATS (the targeting program) can be useful because bullets are a bit random, unlike other first person shooters. Many of the original weapons and armor make an appearance, only in 3D.
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Editorial Reviews:
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For 200 years, Vault 101, a fallout shelter, has served the surviving residents of Washington DC and its environs, now known as the Capital Wasteland. Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from Giant Insects, Raiders, Slavers, and yes, even Super Mutants. Yet one morning, you awake to find that your father has left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the only home you've ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father. Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) that combines the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction gone terribly wrong with the kitschy naivety of American 1950s nuclear propaganda.
Mind-Blowing Artificial Intelligence - Radiant AI, America's First Choice in Human Interaction Simulation. Facial expressions, gestures, unique dialog, and lifelike behavior are brought together with stunning results Eye-Popping Prettiness - Witness the harsh realities of nuclear fallout rendered like never before in modern super-deluxe HD graphics
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