Sov's Crazy Ramblings

Well as you may have heard I have been playing Fallout 3 recently and I have to say at first I was very impressed, I liked the story when I started out. You start by plopping out of your mother who quickly dies off letting you grow up with only your sciencey father to guide you. He gives you a gun at 10 and 8 years later decides to fuck off into the wilderness, leaving you at the mercy of the crazy vault overseer.

The game actually gets going after that and it becomes “openworld”. If you’ve played oblivion you will know the controls and and the feel of the game is pretty similar. With open world comes the ability to make your own decisions and movements in everything you do, sadly however this feels both restricted and undirected as the amount of side-quests is laughably small compared to oblivion and the storyline doesn’t allow for much open playing. 

You spend most of the rest of the game chasing after your father, beating/hugging as many people as necessary to get information relating to him and performing deeds which shift your alignment from good to evil very easily. This doesn’t seem to matter that much as characters don’t really seem to give a crap whether you are bad or good, and a quick visit to the church and a small donation will take you from the most hated person ever to the cuddliest fluff ball ever.

Other than these small problems the game plays nicely, there are a few interesting places along the way that you can visit and do quests at which are just generally fun. Overall I would rate it a fun game, with some interesting twists so check it out

The only MAJOR bug I have seen from start to finish is really just a guy in little lamplight whos head spins around as if his neck is made of spaghetti.

So I guess my score is: Play it

1. Kelate says:

   December 30, 2008 at 2:47 pm

   hehe your reviews are kinda funny, even if its about a game I’ve never played
2. SovHed says:

   January 1, 2009 at 6:46 am

   I’m glad you like it. it was fun to write too