This game gives you so much wonders you will be up for hours playing it.
It's not easy seeing yourself being born but after that, your father wants to see if your a boy or girl. You pick girl or boy. Whatever you select he says and then you select your name. It's not a dropdown list, you type it in. Then a man walks over to you with a Gene Projector, which shows you what you will look like when your older. Thats where you choose what you want to look like when your older. Then your mother goes into Cardiac Arrest and you are rushed out of the room. The character creation process is very fun and creative, ranging from eye color to hair styles to about 50 different beards. You construct your ENTIRE face to how you want it.
On to Gameplay.
Gameplay is similar but better than Oblivion. It is also no where near the gameplay of previous Fallout games, for this is a first person shooter. There is the V.A.T.S mode where you choose which body part you want to shoot or hit. It also is the main way to blow limbs off, which sounds nasty now but as you play it, gets more fun. No lock ons but is not that hard to hit people. The robots make the game alot more interesting just for the fact that some of them kill you, serve you, or protect you. It's no different to a general first person shooter, control based. You can also put live hand grenades into peoples pockets without them knowing and whatch them blow.
It's time for the arsenal. I will say there are many different weapons to choose from. Light weapons include the Assault Rifle, .32 Pistol, Shotgun, and Sub-machine gun. Some heavy weapons include the Fat Man, Rock-it Launcher, Flamer, and Minigun. Melee weapons include the Switchblade, Chinese Officers Sword, Sludgehammer, and Brass Knuckles. All the weapons you choose from will result in different outcomes. Yes, for all you stealthy or suprising people out there, there is Sniper Rifles and Silencer Pistols!
Lets talk about leveling up and perks.
For killing and doing quests you gain experience points and eventually level up, which gives you a chance to add attributes to your skills and a new perk. Your skills include Barter, which the higher your Barter skill the less money things will be for sale, Lockpick which title says it all, and Melee which increases how much damage you do when you melee. You can increase those and many others when you level up, however, you only have 15 points per level to use. So use them wisely. Perks are special abilities you get to choose from when you level up. YOU MAY ONLY CHOOSE 1 PERK PER LEVEL. More perks become available every time you gain a new level. One perk you get is The Bloody Mess perk, where whenever your in V.A.T.S mode you get an extra bloogy, gorey mess for the janitors to clean up.
Overall it's a great game that you are literally following in your father's footsteps. You escape the Vault, ask around a nearby town called Megaton for your father, and eventually pick up the trail, which brings you right smack in the heart of whats left of Washington D.C. A warzone filled with the most terifying creatures you can emagine. The ending is a happy and sad ending and asking yourself "I think I always knew that no matter what, there is good in everyone." You don't even realize the game ends until you say "I can't beleive it happened." I will say no more about the ending except that I cried. I mean it, I cried.
And when you find your father... is he alive?
...or is he dead?
Find out! buy Fallout 3 today! You won't be dissapointed!