@finalstar2007:
Dystopian post-apocalyptic reality mixed with the looks, sounds, and culture of America in the 1950's. This is a big part of it all, the feel of the game. The game doesn't just pick up the good things of that era though. The faults of that society are very much present in there.
Your story leads you (as with most games) from A to B. How you get there though, is completely up to you (this true more for F1, F2 and New Vegas than F3). You can team up with different factions to get different endings (over the same grand objective of course). Within those factions you have also multiple versions of how to achieve said ending. Outside the factions you can define your character to incredible extremes. You can be a sneaky survivalist, preferring to survey the area and loot whatever you can instead of fighting. You can be melee maniac killing everyone and everything wherever you go (you can literally kill quest givers and quest related people). You can a diplomatic angel which uses it's silver tongue to solve most issues. These are just a few examples. Your character can be whatever you want it to be in the pure RPG fashion.
You have useful and interesting party members for the most part, though you have to find them yourself (aka they very rarely get insta-added to your party and many times you can finish the game without having met a big chunk of them).
The best place to start for someone who doesn't play many RPGS of this style is likely F3. Very streamlined and you can't really be much more than good or evil. If you're used to this sort of gameplay or liked F3, jump into New Vegas. A proper 3D Fallout. Siding with each faction (of the many present in the game) has direct gameplay consequences and puts you on a different path towards the ending.
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Other than that, just play them to see if you like it. All this doesn't really matter if you find yourself bored with the gameplay :)
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