A bleak, twisted, yet utterly wonderful game.
Fallout 3 is a special video games. It is an open world, Roleplaying, providing an experience unlike anything on the market right now. It is a radical and expansive showcase of how much depth and excitement can be packaged in a video game, and it does justice to the Fallout franchise. This impact is the first from Bethesda, developers are responsible for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. You do not play any of their previous game or any previous Fallout games to enjoy this one. It stands on its own as a memorable and well designed video games.
The fallout universe paints a picture of a dystopian future. It exists in what people are on the verge of atomic revolution in the 1950s saw as a sci-fi world of tomorrow ... if thousands of nuclear bombs were thrown at it. It is a beautiful, Sci-Fi for a future filled with nuclear-cars, robot servants, and incredibly basic computer terminals. A nuclear war has stripped most of these technological conveniences, which provides background for a game with a sad, desperate atmosphere filled with glib and dark humor. It is a world that is both wonderful and somehow credible. And it is one that is exciting to explore.
You play as Vault Dweller, a blank slate for you to write your story. The game begins with your birth and then quickly move through childhood with snapshots of critical events, like the day you get your Pip-Boy 3000 It is a cleverly veiled character building and self-instruction sequence that sets the background of the story. You live in Vault 101, a bunker designed to keep its occupants alive through nuclear war that ravaged the surface. But this Vault not reopen when the war finished and as the opening film tells you this is where you will die because no one ever enters or leaves Vault 101
But it would not make for a very interesting game. At the end of your childhood, you awake to the alarm and confusion. Your father has opened Vault entrance and on the run. The precarious existence of the other Vault inhabitants have been shattered. Nothing will ever be the same, especially for you, then it is your free to leave the relative comfort Vault 101 and search for your father out of waste.
When the Vault door rolls back, and you step into the sun for the first time, the sense of awe and wonder as you gaze across the Wasteland, which was once the U.S. capital is massive. Life is absent, where it is not hanging on a thread. Par buildings remain standing, most reduced to piles of rubble. In the distance you can see what was downtown Washington DC, a standing, but destroyed the Washington Monument dominates the skyline as the highest remaining structure. You can already tell this game will be extraordinary.
Then your thoughts turn to survive, just as they have for any other human, each wild dog; for everything.