I really hate to admit it, considering i hate Bethesda for butchering Elder Scrolls and Star Trek but Fallout 3 is surprisingly amusing. The whole Character creation childhood thing in the vault is actually fun. When you get out of the vault though, the look of the world does look like a Wasteland. But so far the vault is my favorite part, though I’ve not made it far.

The only problem i have so far is the 3rd person camera sucks, for some reason they shove your character to the side instead of centering the camera on your back. Also heads and limbs get blown off WAY too easily. I have no idea why my little 9mm peashooter gives bloody mess results. 9mm shouldn’t be able to make heads explode.

The only part though that really disappointed me is the sexual under-stone present in fallout games. They have 1 prostitute and she doesn’t really seem like one. It fails to capture the seedy side of the Wasteland, which i find odd considering they have   of F words in the game and it gets really gory but sex is bad? That’s pretty lame on Bethesda’s part.

The combat part is rather easy, I know the old school people would hate it because VATS is like the I win button. I’ve played every fallout and own the originals but i don’t care about difficulty. Though even i was surprised how godlike you are at level 1. It seems that was the intention though, i looked a little at the making of DVD and Bethesda people said how its a single player game and your character is meant to be the most powerful person out in the wasteland.

So in closing, It is actually fun and it comes close to feeling totally like fallout but it falls short. Its sort of like Star Trek Enterprise, it has the name and theme and the like but it makes up its own cannon and generally tries to appeal more to mainstream then the actual fans. And like with that show, if they didn’t call it Fallout it’d probably be a true Game of the Year contender in my opinion, it unfortunately really is enjoyable but once you have the fallout on it, and the intention of making it like that, it falls short.