What a cock you sound like a fucking retard....have you just done this review late
to see how you could flame ppl.
Fuckhead

Great review, it's nice to see a real critique of the game rather than the usual fawning.

Good review, my feelings about the game are very similar, especially the part where the game feels like an Oblivion TC. I have noticed a lot of trolls or maybe shills attack anything negative about Fallout 3 like they had a vested interest in it, seems so weird to defend a game to the point of swearing because someone has a different opinion.

This might be THE most worst review I have ever read.. This is Flamebait!

Everything he says in this review is true. I experienced all those glitches, dumb AI, plenty of BSODS, random crashes to desktop etc. But for some reason I still enjoyed the game a lot. I never played Fallout 1/2 and Oblivion so maybe thats why.

No need for flames, there is nothing wrong with this review.

I'm quite the opposite of your review. I never played Fallout 1 or 2 (although I recently purchased them off of GoG) so Fallout 3 was my first introduction to the canon. I really wanted to like Oblivion, really!, but I just couldn't get into the fantasy setting. Fallout 3 for me is everything I liked about Oblivion in a setting that just does it for me. I think its a great game. I will be buying all three DLC's. I played with mouse/keyboard my first run through and I didn't really consider the controls to be overly awkward so I guess your mileage may vary. Half-way through my second and now well into my third plays I'm using an 360 controller for Windows and I find it just fine too.

It's too bad you haven't received as must enjoyment out of Fallout 3 that I have but if its not suitable for you then thats just it. I can't make you like it! :)

It makes things more interesting when there is really polarized feedback like this.

For those of you making blanket statements calling this a terrible review, etc... It doesn't really bother me, as we're all entitled to our opinions, but I would encourage you to actually state specific points. Otherwise, your feedback isn't doing anybody any good, and if you're taking the time to post a comment, I can only assume you care about giving real feedback. User comments can be very useful to people reading this review, so just keep that in mind.

That being said, whether you agree or disagree with this review, thank you for sharing your thoughts! We welcome all feedback here, so keep it up. :)

A good review in my opinion, however I disagree about the turn based part, VATS isn't turn based just a pause for called shots. I hate that this is what we get for a third fallout, this isn't a sequeal it's a spin-off. It's nice and all that, you get a large world to explore but get's boring when virtually every place looks the same and all you seem to find is darts, teddy bears and financial reports, Should have called it junk hunt the game. The main story is really stupid. Bethesda couldn't even be bothered to create some new antagonists either, we get the Enclave, and supermuntants, niether of them should be present, but that might have been ok had the story been decent.

I played F3 (unpatched) since it came out and wracked up more then 50 hours in it, played all the side quests, and went to every location, I can say that it not once BSOD'd my computer, take my advice, dont patch it, if you still get bsod's, fix that shit, its not the games faul your pc is unstable. (seriously, not flaming)

your reivew had a strong taste of dissapointment, IMHO I dont think your right when you say if someone truely liked Fallout/F2/FT's that this will break their heart, it broke YOUR heart that it wasnt as all the hype made it to be, I can understand the feeling as I got suckered with Spore and its years of hype, but this was a truely enjoyable game, tedious in the end and its an obvious port, it does crash frequently (proces crash) I wouldnt put it in the catagory if the fallout series (i agree they are long dead) but it still is a good game to play for what you pay for, I thinik Bethseda did allright compared to one or two of the titles they have released before.

Fallout 3 Is By Far The Best Game Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Umm... Mr Reviewer? You DO know that you can remap keys, right? You can remap almost every key and mouse press in this game. And the ones you cannot, like A) Accept and E) Exit, you can use a little ingenuity and download a program called AutoHotKey which will allow you to remap even those.

-Mark

I played both Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 each when they were new, and loved them. I also love Fallout 3. I played Oblivion only a bit and didn't like it (also played the first 3 elder scrolls: arena, daggerfall, morrowind).. so maybe that makes it easier for me to enjoy it since I don't see much similarity. The game is crashy, but that's in line with the trilogy.. the first two were crashy too. I've never had a BSOD, only crashes.

I think a number of things stated in this review are incorrect. Fighting doesn't stop when you fire a shot.. you're not forced to use VATS. I've also played a lot of first person shooters on the PC, and the EASD controls for forward, step left, backward, step right are pretty common.. it's not like the developers picked things randomly at all. R is for reload, which is also common. The controls are oriented around the left hand which is on the keyboard.. the right hand is on the mouse. You are not penalized for using the mouse at all.

I'm sorry the game disappointed the reviewer.. but it certainly lived up to my expectations. Perhaps my expectations weren't that high after Brotherhood of Steel.. X(

Paragraph 4: First, you claim that the game is so close to the original that it feels like a bad mod, then say the interface is so different that it loses how "genuine" it is. I feel like you're nitpicking just to have a different opinion than most, and are just trying to make yourself heard by posting a bogus story. You will continue to have these opinions as long as you feel like you will draw attention to yourself with them. You have no idea why you hate this game other than how popular it is. Also, "spc" would not be an acronym, smarty-pants. It would be an abbreviation. This semantic discrepancy makes me feel like you're less genuine as a writer. That is you deserve no praise for writing this bogus "look at me too!" review.

TheJew72: This isn't a tabloid, we don't write to make bogus claims to get attention. Just because you think 'everyone' likes a game doesn't mean literally every person likes it. Opinions are like assholes, as they say.

"Immersion, 2/5: Bad controls, buggy gameplay, BSODs"

Controls can be remapped. I had no BSODs and had very few problems with bugs. The combat was "stop and go" how exactly?

yeah i see no similarirties between fallout 3 and oblivion... and ive played both i cant comment on however if its better or worse than the first 2 i have yet to play them... but so far as ive played i have yet to experience a bug or glitch and my controls work just fine =/ yes your entitled to your opinion but...i wouldnt speak for others in the fact of a heart break for true fall out fans... b/c i know my friends liked fallout3 and the love fallout =/ ne who... tou really couldnt compare it to oblivion true it was made by the same people but other than that it looks nothing like oblivionexcept maybe gameplay in which case isnt that bad...

A very clear, well written review overall, and I agree completely. Fallout 3, much like Oblivion before it is a case of "almost, but not quite." If you're distracted by shiny objects and content to let your eyes glaze over for a few hours of mindless button mashing, its an okay game. It just doesn't hold up anything better than that.