Fallout 3 Is An Expansive RPG That Gives Players A Huge, Highly Detailed, Living World.



Posted: Saturday, May 16, 2009

by Christopher West

There are an abundance of quests and side missions to anchor the immersion a host of interesting character creation options that truly affect the way the protagonist plays and of course weapons and items galore to be found and used. Additionally, the franchise's black humour is present but not nearly as prevalent, though Fallout 3 is still keenly aware of it's roots. The haughty pseudo government called the enclave and the freedom fighters known as the Brotherhood of Steel are still powerful forces and the main story centers around concepts and objectives that fallout purists will be familiar with. Keeping in mind that Fallout 3 is first and foremost an RPG, it has one of the cleverest introduction/tutorials I've seen in a game. First you are born and get to decide what you will look like.

Like the previous fallout games. It is set in a retro futuristic version of the world that has been turned mostly to rubble by a nuclear war with China. The original fallout games were set on the other side of the United States on the west coast and in the American Southwest. But Fallout 3 is so much more than the originals so much different and that is entirely as it should be. To set out to make a game now ten years after the fact that's nothing more than a retread of what is to be blunt a dead genre would be ridiculous. In terms of game play, Fallout 3 is a first-person shooter that explores the freedom of choice. The setting does much to allow this freedom a ravaged, post apocalyptic United States where civilization has all but disappeared.

Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world radiation, Super mutants and hostile mutated creatures. At the same time this DLC is not something that should be picked up until players are at the point where they're able to actually beat the game's original storyline. There's just no point simply because you can't play this new content until you get close to level 20 anyway. It's hard to even speculate on the amount gameplay time that you get here but the dedicated Fallout 3 player will probably get dozens if not hundreds of hours out of the game.

During your quest you'll encounter makeshift towns. You'll speak with survivors providing answers that shape your personality into a hero or villain. The DLC expansion offers new quests items and new area to explore namely a post apocalyptic version of Pittsburgh. Start to finish you can probably finish the main quests and bring the game to it's conclusion in less than twenty hours of play time. By today's standards that seems to be a pretty average amount of playing time.

In the game you'll trek along in a questline where you help the Brotherhood take on the Enclave which leads to the brand new area of Adams Air force Base. The new quest revolves around a rumored cure for mutation and you'll have to infiltrate the Pitt in order to retrieve this cure. This can involve disguising yourself as a slave, joining the raiders, or any of a number of different options.

The new weapons and armor while fun don't make up for the value of the pack though. Before I headed out to do battle with these new foes however I needed to get my hands on a weapon. Luckily for me one of the slaves in the mill was adept at crafting weapons from the pieces of scrap metal littering the area. A note about how the game plays it can be controlled as an action game with twitch based wielding of pre-made weapons and ones assembled from wreckage found in the game. The game can also be controlled through a stat driven combat system called VATS which allows a time slowed targeting of enemy body parts that keeps the gameplay somewhat tied to the dice rolling action of the original Fallout titles.

About The Author: Christopher West has been living in florida for 15 years, He's originally from W.VA. He has a girlfriend her name is Theresa. They have been together for 7 years. Christopher enjoy's writing articles he hopes you enjoy his articles as well.

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