Paste Magazine, 100.<blockquote>Fallout 3 is, hands-down, the richest, deepest, most captivating game world I’ve ever explored. You’ll have that same feeling of awe you experienced after reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s appendices at the end of Lord of the Rings. Middle Earth really did exist, if only in the head of a mad artist dreamer from Oxford, England. The world of Fallout 3 must never exist. Consider Bethesda Game Studios the Ghost of Christmas Future.</blockquote>Forbes Digital Download.<blockquote>There is almost too much good to be said about Fallout 3. It presents the best sandbox (open-ended, do whatever you want to do) video gaming experience ever.
The voice acting is also superb. More than anything else, it pulls us back into that world. It’s clean, crisp, and straight-faced enough that the series' wry sense of humor shines through.</blockquote>Scripps News, 5/5.<blockquote>It would be easy to just say that "Fallout 3" is "Oblivion" set in post-apocalyptic Washington. If you didn't play "Oblivion" (Bethesda's award-winning RPG set in a mythical realm of swords and castles), you missed out on something beautiful. But "Fallout 3" takes this even further and delivers probably the largest explorable game world ever, and it never gets boring.
Publisher: EA Games</blockquote>The Bitbag, S.<blockquote>The Fallout series goes back 11yrs. It has always been a highly acclaimed PC title and would continually get better with each new game.
It’s funnier how a year after Bioshock we are seeing something as amazing as Fallout 3. Just when you thought the next generation hit a threshold, Bethesda breaks through it showing us that they have staying power in this business. They initiated us into the next generation with Oblivion and now they have us drooling on our second course. Fallout 3 is a truly engrossing title that will have you stuck in a chair for hours on end. If you are a fan of western RPG’s and want something different, add Fallout 3 to your list.</blockquote>Only the Games, 5/5.<blockquote>While in function it’s nothing like those that came before it, Fallout 3 captures the only thing that was fundamental to those beloved isometric masterpieces of the past: a world reborn from apocalyptic ash.
With minds in the right place, detached from primordial mechanics, developer Bethesda isn’t interested in the irrational expectation that the Fallout series will, always and forever, be stuck at an archaic plateau. Through a tersely envisioned world, where people praise undetonated bombs as relics of their creation, where slavers and raiders seek nothing but pain and bloodshed, Fallout 3 touches on every dark and dank place spawned by a desolate existence, but never does it lose touch with hope. Through retaining the essence of Fallout, and presenting it for a new era, the setting resonates as deeply as ever.
The futility as a straight shooter is slightly offset by VATS (Vault Tec Assisted Targeting), which has you queue up individual body parts of enemies for a more efficient, targeted, and cinematic result. But a mix of the two never quite comes to fruition without the right balance or feel.</blockquote>Strategy Informer, 9.0.<blockquote>Fallout 3 is a stand-out RPG that offers a heaping amount of replay value and entertainment. The NPCs that fill the world are natural jerks and it makes the experience all the more entertaining as they are humorous and nihilistic. The voice-acting helps take the game to new lengths and the VATS defines how players will think about Fallout 3 long after they complete the title. Fallout 3 is an outrageous game that’s a joyful ride until the closing minutes of the game.</blockquote>Mirror/Techno Techno Techno, 5/5.<blockquote>Combat is just as satisfying as exploring too.</blockquote>
The voice acting is also superb. More than anything else, it pulls us back into that world. It’s clean, crisp, and straight-faced enough that the series' wry sense of humor shines through.</blockquote>Scripps News, 5/5.<blockquote>It would be easy to just say that "Fallout 3" is "Oblivion" set in post-apocalyptic Washington. If you didn't play "Oblivion" (Bethesda's award-winning RPG set in a mythical realm of swords and castles), you missed out on something beautiful. But "Fallout 3" takes this even further and delivers probably the largest explorable game world ever, and it never gets boring.
Publisher: EA Games</blockquote>The Bitbag, S.<blockquote>The Fallout series goes back 11yrs. It has always been a highly acclaimed PC title and would continually get better with each new game.
It’s funnier how a year after Bioshock we are seeing something as amazing as Fallout 3. Just when you thought the next generation hit a threshold, Bethesda breaks through it showing us that they have staying power in this business. They initiated us into the next generation with Oblivion and now they have us drooling on our second course. Fallout 3 is a truly engrossing title that will have you stuck in a chair for hours on end. If you are a fan of western RPG’s and want something different, add Fallout 3 to your list.</blockquote>Only the Games, 5/5.<blockquote>While in function it’s nothing like those that came before it, Fallout 3 captures the only thing that was fundamental to those beloved isometric masterpieces of the past: a world reborn from apocalyptic ash.
With minds in the right place, detached from primordial mechanics, developer Bethesda isn’t interested in the irrational expectation that the Fallout series will, always and forever, be stuck at an archaic plateau. Through a tersely envisioned world, where people praise undetonated bombs as relics of their creation, where slavers and raiders seek nothing but pain and bloodshed, Fallout 3 touches on every dark and dank place spawned by a desolate existence, but never does it lose touch with hope. Through retaining the essence of Fallout, and presenting it for a new era, the setting resonates as deeply as ever.
The futility as a straight shooter is slightly offset by VATS (Vault Tec Assisted Targeting), which has you queue up individual body parts of enemies for a more efficient, targeted, and cinematic result. But a mix of the two never quite comes to fruition without the right balance or feel.</blockquote>Strategy Informer, 9.0.<blockquote>Fallout 3 is a stand-out RPG that offers a heaping amount of replay value and entertainment. The NPCs that fill the world are natural jerks and it makes the experience all the more entertaining as they are humorous and nihilistic. The voice-acting helps take the game to new lengths and the VATS defines how players will think about Fallout 3 long after they complete the title. Fallout 3 is an outrageous game that’s a joyful ride until the closing minutes of the game.</blockquote>Mirror/Techno Techno Techno, 5/5.<blockquote>Combat is just as satisfying as exploring too.</blockquote>
. The reason why? None of those issues are enough to even slightly mar the overall experience, because they are MINOR issues. Almost every game has at least one of the above mentioned faults.
