Boros takes a trip through the apocalypse, and finds the glitches that await on his path.
Ok, the core mechanics are the same as Fallout: New Vegas. It's a first person, and you're running around just killing things. That's unchanged, but there are some subtle differences. For example, while you could find schematics and make thing in New Vegas, it's much more pronounced in 3, and I think that's a good thing. There are many more schematics that are easier to find than in New Vegas, and there is more of a focus on building your own weapons. Which makes sence! It's the end of the world, and you should have to improvise weapons. My favorite is the Deathclaw Gauntlet. It's essentially wearable claws from the most dangerous creature in the game. There is also an interesting focus on alternate realities in this game. There is more than one occasion where your perception of reality gets slightly skewed, and isn't that a weird thought? It's already an alternate reality, and there are alternate realities in an alternate reality. It's Inception all over agian!
Now that the differences are out of the way, let's talk about the game, and we'll start at a topic I always like to talk about: Story. The story is that you've lived all of your life in a thing called a vault, and you see yourself raised straight from the womb to adulthood. Don't worry, it doesn't show you the whole damned thing. It likes to skip ahead usually about 10 years at a time. Anyway, one morning when you wake up (I think your age is about 20), all hell is breaking loose, and your father has left the vault. You weren't even aware that you could leave the vault, so you kill everything in your way to leave the vault in pursuit of your dad. It's a very effective way of immersing you into the world that they've created. There is one thing that I don't seem to like too much, and that's the fact that the main story isn't the focus of the game. It's exploring the wastelands, which can keep the immersion high, but sometimes all I want is a good story, and Fallout, as a series, doesn't seem to provide very well. More specifically, because the main story quickly gets dog piled and gang raped by a mountain of side quests, and extra stuff to do. It also can get too easy, because when I stopped playing, I was at level 23 with my endurance stat being maxed out, and wearing inpenetrable bulls#!t armor, as I like to call it, and I was damned near indestructable. Sadly, I couldn't ever beat the game, because of an interesting predicament. By the way, while we're on the complain train, let's talk about the biggest problem with this game.
This is definitaly saying something; This is the glitchiest game I've ever played. Sonic 06 was glitchy as f@%k, and they were all bad glitches, but Fallout 3 is the glitchiest. However, some of them are funny glitches, like when heads start floating and going through walls. However, there is one glitch that I was saving until now, but this is a doozy. You see, I was in a story critical building, the Jefferson Memorial, and I had found my father. I was helping him with an expeirament when a group called the Enclave attacked. I enter the only room I can go into after killing one Enclave member, and...the system froze... I can't even cut it off with the controller, so I have to get up to cut it off, then I try agian, and... it froze agian. I try to see if the map with tell me anything, and the Jefferson Memorial, along with several other places have ceased to exist on the map. There's a big square of empty space on the map where places should be. As it turns out, I can't beat the story because this is a game ending glitch. Just to clarify, a game ending glitch is a glitch that prevents the main story from being completed, and the only way to fix said glitch is to restart your file, effectively erasing all progress up to that point. Any game with a game ending glitch instantly gets 2 points knocked off of the final score. That's right! This game is good enough to recieve a 9.5, but a game ending glitch in brings it down to only being average.
In conclusion, this game is well worth your time. To prove how much this is worth your time, I forgot to do a review last night, just because I was playing this. Just hope you don't run into that god forsaken mother f@%ker son of a b!#ch assh0le glitch. I swear, glitches are my curse. I am the glitch magnet, and I always seem to bring out the worst in video games. Even in games I would otherwise love, like this one! ...Why must I be cursed so? I must be forsaken with the glitch... *sigh* Anyway, I'd try it, but if you're a glitch magnet like me, then you might run into the killer glitch...