Fallout 3 is an amazing game but I cannot give it anything higher then an 8 because the PS3 version has way to many bugs

User Rating: 8 | Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition PS3
By Melpoe | Review Date:
Look lets get 1 thing out of the way Fallout 3 is my 10th favorite game of all time, I played it on the Xbox 360 before I had a PS3 and then about 3 months ago I sold my 360 and purchased a PS3 with no regrets at all. So on my 360 Fallout 3 I had 1 main character with about 113 hours into him but before him I had a character with 98 hours that I stupidly deleted so I remade my main guy into that 113 hour character >_>. I had about 3 other side characters that had a at keast 20 hours in, so all together that is 260+ hours into Fallout 3 all together. I loved Fallout 3 I have never in my life experienced a game like Fallout 3 and it takes the best of 3 worlds imo. It takes the 40's-50's way of living and fashion, it takes futureistic aspects, and ofcourse a post apocoliptic aspect. Anyway when I purchased my PS3 the first thing I said was "man my PS3 is not going to be the same without Fallout 3 in my collection :cry: " so I went out and purchased the Goty edition and to remake my Fallout 3 character all over for my sassy PS3 so I could have him for the rest of my life :D. Sadly I knew the PS3 Fallout was buggier then the 360's and I knew that since Bethesda perfers the Xbox over the PS3 that the PS3 bugs would probably never get fixed. Well I tried my Fallout 3:Goty edition today and was very,very,very! upset that Bethesda could be so pathetic not to fix this game. It has been an entire year since Fallout 3 first came out and the Goty edition is so buggy, there is just no excuse for it.I mean after seeing just how buggy this game is I lost what little respect I still had for Bethesda and I will never think anything good about them again. I mean the PS3 version has such bad framerate problems, every minute the game twitches for a second and comes back together, it is very annoying. Luckily I am able to look past that because I am such a huge Fallout 3 fanatic, but for anyone else who has never played this game on the 360 they might find themselfes not enjoying this game on the PS3 because of this horrible issue.Now if you are able to look past these problems like im able to, then you will pull out of the darkness of the inferno laggy abyess, a gem of a game that is an instant classic, so if these bugs were not in the game I would give this game a 9/10.


Story-Fallout's Main story is good imo, not the best story ever in a video game but one of the best ive heard from in an open world rpg. It is very hard to pull off a compelling story in huge games like Fallout. See once you start the game most rpg's will start you on the story and then if its an open world rpg the sotry will come to a halt and the game will throw you into the world. Now Fallout 3 shines in a big aspect of "the wasteland" which is the world of Fallout. See besides the main story there is another story, the story of the wasteland.If you explore the wasteland in Fallout you will find an amazing story of survival, you reall get to see and feel what it must of been like when the bombs fell and after and that whole struggle for survival feeling is heavily present. Bethesda went all out on so much detail into this games wasteland and it makes you feel that, that is the main story to Fallout 3.

Gameplay- Gameplay in Fallout imo is pretty fun, you use a shooting system called V.A.T.S which is basically this little turn base shooting system when once in use pauses the game and locks onto a designated enemy then you choose if you want to attack the enemies head,foot,leg ect ect. Now as fun as this is I can easily see why some people would find it repetitive and boring. The combat outside of vats is pretty bad also, its very cluncky and its a little hard to shoot moving targets unless you get use to it. You know what tho even tho the combat is stiff outside of vats this is not supose to be a heavy fps, its more of an rpg,rts,fps.

Graphics- The game imo looks great, thisis definetly not a game for people that find games that do not have alot of color boring, ex-Killzone 2,Gears of War. However there is still color in this game, and way more then Killzone but it is a pretty depressing game to play since everything is either dead or blown up. Just do not go into this game thinking it to be as colorful as oblivion.

Bottom Line- I feel that I have a love/hate relationship with Fallout 3. I was complain about its faults but love the game to death and if you can look pass the horrible frame rate issues for the PS3 you will find an amazing gaming experience like no other. Also shame on you Bethesda for not putting just as much love into the Ps3 version like you did for the 360's version.

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