This is not, of course, a Fallout 3 review.įallout: New Vegas is a noble attempt at having it both ways: the exploration and the narrative. Suffice it to say, Fallout 3 remains in my top 5 games of all time.
While it lacked the brilliant storytelling of the prior games, I felt it made up for it in all the unspoken narratives of the world around you. I had already played games like Oblivion, but it was not until Fallout 3 that I truly appreciated the depths in Bethesda games the ability to just strike out and roam. Would it feel like Fallout? Why turn this series into a FPS?īy the end of the first hour, my fears (and free time) melted away in the vast furnace of Fallout 3’s immersive, brilliant post-apocalyptic world. A storied veteran of the original Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics, the idea of a first-person non-grid-based combat game filled me with dread. When I played Fallout 3, it completely revolutionized the series to me.
