Ha ha, well first things first the blog title is sarcasm, Fallout 3 is an AMAZING game. I was gonna write a structured blog listing the good points in a systematic and thorough order, but I'm kinda strapped for time so this is the best you'll get lol.

I dont really know where to start explaining why fallout 3 i so good so I'll just explain the first things that I noticed when playing. Namely the beginning of the game, i was a massive fan of bethesda's other recent first person RPG (Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion anyone???) I loved the brilliant beginning to the game where you had to creep through the caverns and eventually emerge from the cave to a vast open land of oppurtunities. This feeling was replicated in fallouts understated yet brilliant opening.

You have to escape from the safety of Vault 101 into the endless wastelands of Washington DC. However this time the journey into the big wide world felt more imposing and nerveracking, it's made clear at the beginning that there are all sorts of creatures and corrupt individuals roaming the Wasteland and this leads to more fear and awareness of your surroundings than there was with Oblivion. The wastelands themselves are slightly dull with lots of greys and browns but to be fair to the game a nuclear bomb has just been dropped so its hardly gonna be all sun shines and rainbows now is it.

Apart from this minor niggle (and the occasional freezing) fallout 3's only other negative point is pop up, sometimes when you're roaming the wastelands buildings will pop up out of nowhere. On some occasions the building will be there when you at a fair distance but with no textures, fair enough, but even as you get closer the textures often still do not render. However this point can be defended as the sheer scale of the world and the number of buildings and locations to explore its vast therefore I personally expected it to happen. For this reason I will also overlook the hit and miss draw distances (360's is better, hate to admit it). ANyway this concludes the paragraph in which I moan a lot.

Back to positive points, pretty much everything: the exploring, the combat, the trading of goods, shooting super mutants at point blank with a combat shotgun whilst in V.A.T.S, pickpocketing people then planting a bomb to blow them up, killing every single Raider I lay eyes on, the interesting characters, hitting feral ghouls in the face with a sledgehammer or other satisyingly blunt object, decapitating mole rats, being a good citizen, being a bad citizen, shooting Tenpenny in the head then throwing him off his tower because he proposed I blow up Megaton, blowing up Megaton, listening to Wadsorths crap jokes, letting Wadsworth give me yet another haircut that makes me look like a man dressed as a trailer park lesbian, collecting Bobbleheads (only have 4), Getting addicted to Buffout then having to go cold turkey, Killing the behemoth super mutant things...they're huge!!!, Laughing at the brotherhood of steel because they think they're so great, then watching them get ripped to pieces by Super mutants, rescuing prisoners and Collecting Stimpacks (so far I have like 90, you never know when you'll need them).

Well I did say it wouldn't be structured too well, i can't think of any more plus points off the top of my head but there are many, many more and I've only done like 1/3 of the game. I urge anyone who doesnt already have it to go out and buy this game, Its's value for money like you wouldn't believe, its sooooo damn long. Definately game of the year in my opinion. Roll on Fallout 4, or elder scrolls 5. Which brings me onto my brief pitch for the next fallout. They should set it in a post Apocaliptic London (in England for those who don't know) and you could go explore Buckinham palace, maybe the queen and Phillip are super mutants (flick on V.A.T.S, bang, bang)anyway roll in there with dogmeat (or other generic dog) and blast holes in her corgi's (mutated corgi's). If thats not Game of the year material I dont know what it is...btw i really don't hate the royal family I just think there a bunch of racist, pretentious fools. *Climbs down off his soapbox* :D