| Fallout 3 UK Collectors Edition (PC) |  | From: Bethesda
Category: Video Games
New (5) Collectible (1) from £84.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2485
Platform: Windows Xp
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6.3 x 3.9
UPC: 093155124271
EAN: 0093155124271
ASIN: B0017Y38TI
Release Date: October 31, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 Unplayable November 4, 2008
0 out of 27 found this review helpful
I just got and installed the game. When I click "new game" I get a "your game has stopped working" error and windows gives me the option to close the program.
Unplayable ... probably all this secuROM 7 stuff everyone else is on about.
 Fallout The Next Generation November 2, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Played Fallout 1 and 2 a lot. My favourite RPGs are turn based (fallout 2, Arcanum, etc).
I was upset when the news that Fallout 3 was going to be in first person shooter variety.
I decided to give it a try and ordered this collectors edition from Amazon.
After almost 10 hours in the game, having covered something like 5% of the world.
If you are willing to accept that there can be a fallout game that isn't turn based bird eye's view, then this is Fallout 3. When I was wondering how a Fallout game would be, 10 years ago, I was thinking something like Mad Max. Fallout 3 manages to reach that level. Fallout 3 is and feels like the true sequel to Fallout 2. It's a superb game, it's a superb Fallout game.
If you manage to put aside that this is not a remake of Fallout 1 and 2, then you will not be dissapointed.
Had some crashes. If you have ffdshow installed, disable the decoding for the two executables of the game. Don't have anything else running while playing this game, including browser and messenger etc. Do not alt-tab. When you want to quit the game, first quit to the main menu, then quit to the desktop.
This should help with your crashes if you have any.
Excellent game.
IT'S A BRAND NEW POSTAPOCALYPTIC DAWN October 28, 2008
25 out of 30 found this review helpful
I am old enough to have played the original game when it first came out in 1997. I was a great fan of the series that followed and, thus, was very eager to get my hands on this latest installment. In a short sentence: FALLOUT-3 is A DREAM COME TRUE!
It is a cRPG game in which the player can alternate between the First and Third person perspective roaming a world comparable in size with OBLIVION. The action has moved from Vault 13 and Southern California to Vault 101 and Washington, D.C. and the story brakes away from the previous bloodlines. However, the atmosphere of the original has been maintained and its scents sharpened: veterans will find it fitting like and old glove - whereas the new gamers are in store for a bag of pleasant surprises.
The graphics are wonderful, the guns detailed and the environments highly interactive. Short of a screenshot, imagine what would HalfLife-2 would look if released today. And similar to HL2, FALLOUT-3 does not require an...ubercomputer to run smoothly. Once you see a NPC move though, you understand where the corners were cut.
Character customization is carried out in great style using the new and improved PIP-BOY at the beginning. You exit the vault and the harsh reality of a world that barely survived annihilation slaps you on the face. Adapt or perish.
The main storyline is there to be followed but FALLOUT-3 offers the greatest number of alternative choices I have ever encountered in a game! There is always a great number of paths to follow in order to achieve any goal - but every choice comes with a consequences tag. This is common feature of most classic cRPGs but in FALLOUT-3 I saw it implemented like never before. If nothing else, this sends replayability through the roof.
Side-quests offer little besides distraction and experience points (XP) to be spend on character improvement. XP are gained solely by completing quests, emerging victorious from fights, finding locations, picking locks and hacking terminals - and they are not limited by the action they were earned. Leveling up is based on 7 basic attributes [Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility & Luck - acronym?;)] that, in turn, affect your (13) specific skills. Since leveling up is capped at Level-20, the game designers wanted to encourage replaying the game. On the other hand, it also means that your character will never realize its full potential (in case you are wondering why I withheld a star from FUN, that's the second half of it).
The game is violent and gory but well within tasteful limits. Not so with the language - but it is tradeoff with realism. In a radioactive world, Sunday-school niceties are bound to go out the window.
What deserves a special mention is V.A.T.S. (:Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System) which opens new vistas in cRPG design. It is an ingenious system which lets you pause the game and target specific body parts of your opponents. The success of your attack still depends on your skills but the end effect is cinematic and amazing (remember SWORDFISH?).
After the nuclear summer of 2008 (with all the SecuROM-defective EA releases), this seems like a postapocalyptic dawn indeed! BETHESDA decided to listen to the gaming community and did NOT cripple this beautiful game with any idiotic DRM scheme. Inputting a serial number and a DVD-check is more than reasonable.
The publishers of FALLOUT-3 understand that there is a fine balance between "protecting the product" and..."insulting your own customers". And they obviously view respect as the two way street that it is - and for this they deserve our support: buy this game, today.
Voting with our wallets is the only argument the gaming industry cannot afford to ignore. And it is about time to cast some well deserved positive votes.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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