Customer Reviews
Really good fun for the majority, tedius at times. - By: Mr. D. J. Morley, 17 Nov 2008 
When I first started this game, I was amazed by the graphics & the combat style. VAT's is just great fun, especially when you get a few levels higher & have skills to blow peoplein to shreds. Okay, a bit gruesome, but still it's part of the game.
The main quest line is slightly short, but you can easily crank out 30-40 hours playing this game, which for me is a decent amount. The problem with these 30-40 hours is that quite a lot of it you will be wondering around a huge map, trying to work out how to get past rubble. Once you get all the way points on your map, its a lot more fun because there is less walking involved.
Some of the quests can be slightly confusing, with not much explaining of what your supposed to do, so exploring isin order & a bit of patience is needed sometimes. Other than that the game is awesome.
FRUSTRATION!!! - By: N. Wilcock, 16 Nov 2008 
When I first purchased this game I got it home & played on it for about 4-5 hours straight. then next day played some more, finally I got to the water purification Unit with my dad having spent most of the day tracking him down. THEN it all went horribly WRONG game just kept on freezing up on me mainly as I wasin the purification unti by Rivet city. I get the feeling that i was so close to seeing my dad achieve his goal but unfortunatley i never as i could bot get past a specific door a kept on feezing up & screen stayed black. I even tried to load from a pre-saved point just before the door without success, saved game just freezes as it tries to load. All-in-All very dissapointed as this game until that point was excellent. I even took the game back the shop for a replacement only to get it back home & for it to FREEZEin exactly the same point. Visited numerous forums/sites & apparently there are lots of people experiencing these problems which is a shame as it could have been such a great game. Took the latest copy back & exchaged it for CoD 5 (completed now though) so missing FO 3 GUTTED...
A Great Game!!! - By: Schreeny, 14 Nov 2008 
From reading the other reviews, you might get the impression that this is a fantastic game, & that's because it's true! I myself don't usually play this type of game but was attracted to its story & impressive visuals. This leads into the actual gameplay itself, with easy to use controls, excellent graphics depicting a post-apocalyptic environment, & an involving story to follow. I've only played a few hours' worth of Fallout 3, so I can't tell you too much what happens, & besides other reviewers have gone into this, but the opening is clever & makes good use of the character you play growing up to familiarise yourself with how to play the game & set the narrative, to leaving Vault 101. A must-by & would make a perfect x-mas present for any role-playing/shoot-em-up fans.
Oblivion all over again - By: P. Benson, 13 Nov 2008 
good start to the game but once you get out of the vault you are either walking about looking for items or using the special targetting system again & again, exploding heads gets really boring. Also it is unbelievable how much time you are expected to spend collecting boring items to sell for the hard to find money.
Obviously some people love this sort of thing hence the reviews below. I played & completed Oblivion, I was compelled to finish it but did not enjoy the experience, fallout 3 is better than Oblivion but I realized 15 hoursin I was not enjoying it either. I was a couple of quests away from finishing but thought whats the point? I cant face any more walking or shooting super mutants, I traded the game & I'm glad. I want to be entertained by videogames. Fallout 3 has the same feeling of meaninglessness to it as Oblivion.
Absolutely Awesome! - By: Morris Day, 13 Nov 2008 There have been two games for the 360 that I played & instantly wanted to play them again - firstly Mass Effect & now Fallout 3 - it is quite simply amazing.
The scopein the game is so vast that you can play it exactly how you desire - I was Mr Goody Two-Shoes first time around, saving innocents, killing thugs & taking all the good optionsin conversations, now I'm excited about playing it again the evil way - killing innocents, helping the bad guys, but of course still killing mutants along the way. Obviously you'll get some duplication &in some places the game will be linear but there is so much scopein conversations & peoples responses to you that I won't get bored.
Fallout combines the atmosphere of the brilliant Bioshock (in places it can be hard to see even with your watch light on), action of CoD / Bad Company & the side quest of Mass Effect all combined to make a dark, brutal & electric game. I do bother with RPG rivals bickering - simply play this game.
There are quite a few side quests to do also which certainly helps to bump up the hours of gameplay - my advice - stay away from the fire ants until you have a) a good long range gun & b) some good armor & stimpacks!!
9.5 out of 10
