An amazingly immersive RPG adventure that allows for many diverse characters and play styles.
The options for interacting with NPCs is very open ended: feel like being a jerk? Want to be a good samaritan? Just feel like shooting someone? Whichever catches your interest, the option is there. The NPCs will act accordingly to how you speak with them, responding with anger, gratitude, or even confusion depending on your choices. Even playing as a man or woman can effect how the NPCs respond to you, as some will treat a male or female differently.
The customization ability of the statistics and skills your character can posess allows you to come up with your own blend to perfectly match your own play style. One play through you can be a musclebound strongman crushing your varied enemies with baseball bats, tire irons, and Super Sledges. The next your character could be well versed in Sneak, Lockpicking, and Speech, using these skills to chat or stealth your way out of trouble. This wide variety of options adds a lot of replay value to the game, as you can experience the game different ways by altering how you build your character.
The graphics and sound in this game are phenomenal. The wasteland looks the way you would expect it to - rocks and dirt dominate the majority of the landscape, with hints of what the area used to be like a run down drive-in movie theater, or a town situated on what used to be a highway onramp.Strange creatures and Super Mutants roam the Wastes, preying on unwary travellers. The ruins of cities are filled with broken buildings and debris, and controlled by Raiders. Lakes, rivers, and even small puddles of water are contaminated by radiation, making it a safer prospect to travel along the water until you find a bridge than to swim across. Remains of other wanderers lay forgotten throughout the Waste, some even bearing their property just waiting to be taken. Enemies will call out to one another or taunt you for hiding when they can't find you. Echoing gunshots and explosions can be heard realistically from far away, and it's sometimes hard to tell if they are just sound effects, or an actual fight happening! The game does a great job of sucking you into the world, and making you feel like the experience is real. All in all, Fallout 3 is an amazing game, one that first person shooter and RPG fans alike can enjoy.