Fallout 3 Mini-Review

Alright, so I played Fallout 3 and I finished it just now. Overall, the game is good, but I had higher expectations from it, so for me it’s a little disappointing. I’m really looking forward for the Construction Set to be released, so I can start the game over.

The good parts:

• a lot of options in-game. You can be the bad guy or the good guy and finish the game how you like.
• you do what you want: do the main quest, or just the secondary ones. Explore the Wasteland or try to finish the game, it’s your choice. Watch it though, when you finish the main quest the game ends.

What bothered me:

• the game ends when you finish the main quest. This annoyed me as hell. I was expecting this to be a game with no end if you want it to be this way. I thought that after I made the main quest I could still go out and explore the rest of the Wasteland, do the rest of the quests and so on. Maybe because I did the same with the Elder Scrolls series, and I shouldn’t have expected the same thing here, but it still annoys me. I would’ve played the game for at least 10 more hours to see what I’ve missed if it didn’t end.
• dialog boxes and inventory don’t show all the options, you have to scroll down a lot to find what you’re looking for. This problem was in Oblivion also, so I guess it’s universal with Bethesda products.
• no sleeping in the Wasteland, unless you can find a tent or an abandoned bed. This kind’off blows. The amount of sleep depravation that was forced on my character would make a grown man cry.
• no wife in Fallout 3? I didn’t play Fallout 2, but I understood that you could have a wife there, so why not here as well?
• couldn’t find the damn sniper rifle. Not exactly something that can be found easily.

Overall, the game was OK, but to fully reach its potential it needs the Construction Set to be released. Oblivion had tens of thousands of mods released by the community and I played it for months because of that.

Without the Construction Set, the mods that can be made are limited unfortunately. You can find a few basic ones here, including a better sniper rifle, 10mm pistol, power armor and a few others.

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