It’s almost time to Fallout once again. Bethesda Softworks picks up where Black Isle Studios left off on the Fallout series a decade ago to create it’s newest game in the series, Fallout 3. Bethesda Softworks creates Fallout 3 on the same Gambryo engine that was used to create it’s last RPG hit, Elder Scroll’s IV: Oblivion.
So what is Fallout 3? You take the role of an inhabitant of Vault 101, a vault that protects the citizens of Washington D.C. who reserved a home in it in preparation of global atomic warfare. Inside the vault, society is recreated and is protected from the remains of the outside world. Sometime in the game your father sneaks out of the vault into the post-apocalyptic world with an unknown motive. Like any other good son, you leave as well in search for your father in the mutant infested world that was once America.
Like Oblivion, Fallout 3 is open-ended sandbox game play, with your choices and actions deciding the outcome of you and your surroundings. You choose whether you want to serve for better or worse, what isn’t to be excited about? There’s a giant device attached to your wrist called the Pip-Boy Model 3000 (Shown Below). It’s used to check your current skill levels and objectives. It’s most notable function is it’s auto-aim system. But it’s not your ordinary auto-aim. It pauses the world and shows the physical fitness of each part of your enemy to take down your enemy with more strategy than your ordinary RPG.
So in essence, Fallout 3 is Oblivion but in a different world and a couple of millenniums later. Replace the swords with guns and the Dremora with uglier creatures and you’ll have everything you loved about Oblivion (Including the feature that allows you to switch from third-person to first-person at the press of a button), but with even more to explore and the retro style of video games that was the Fallout series in the 90s.
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