ere are some good video reviews for fallout 3. I included a few serious reviews from various websites, and of course a “Zero Punctuation” review.
Gamespot.com - Fallout 3 Review
Zero Punctuation: Fallout 3 Review
I beat the game recently and I have a little bit of advice for you. Don’t do the main story line quest until you did everything you wanted to do. There are like 7 main quests and after your done, the game ends. I had a ton of unfinished quests and I was only lvl 14 when I beat it. For this type of game I was expecting to be around lvl 40 or so. Great game, if you play it right.
In this review I am going to briefly summarize what to expect with this RPG. Star ocean has a considerable following, including myself. The animation and setting is done very well, and the voice acting is better than most PSP rpgs.
You start out in this little town as a blue haired guy (as usual) named “what ever you decided to call him” however no matter what you called him, all the voice acting will refer to him as “Roddick” or something. He has a purple haired girl and a blond boy as a friend. You end up running around aimlessly until you trigger an event. In this case people start turning to stone - so you have to go to some mountain and pick a flower that can heal everyone - well - then a space ship appears and your thrown into the space plot.
During the course of the game you find your self lost. I find myself running around talking to NPC’s that have nothing of value to say, not giving any hint as to what to do or where to go. On most occasions I would walk all the way to a town across the continent, buy the best equipment, then run all the way back to the first town, and stumble across an event that tells me to go to the next town again. It’s pretty much like this the whole game.
Leveling up is kinda fun. Lvlign comes easy, and you’ll find your characters rising in levels really fast. When they level you they get “skill points” and you have to go to these skill shops and buy skills. These skills are mostly crap like “dancing” and “determination” and just shit that you would use to form specialties, (another part of the game) but they each add to your characters status. It’s better explained in the game, but it does it make it fun to figure out how you want to shape your character through these skills.
I’m currently half way through the game walking around aimlessly as trying to trigger an event. That’s basically it.
Not a bad game, but prepare to be lost for long periods of time.
I bought gothic 3 on impulse at best buy when trying to find games to make my laptop more interesting. Gothic 3 is a open world RPG. You start out as this guy (sorry no character creation) your on a boat that goes to shore. Once you jump off the boat you see that the land has been takin over by orcs, And humanity has been enslaved.
Right away your thrown into battle, your options are a sword or a bow - pick quickly and then start spamming attacks on the orcs, by the way you can only get hit about 4 times before you die, so don’t suck.
You control your guy by using WASD and the mouse, clicking your mouse to swing your weapon (when it’s out) and the game is played in 3rd person, so it can be confusing at first but overal it’s pretty smooth.
Gameplay:
My Biggest problem with the game is that when you die, you die, no respawn, the camera just watches your dead body until you hit ESC and load to a time before death. Also your class is determined by what skills you level up. But you need to find trainers to add LP ( stat points ) and it cost about 50 gold a point. So imagine any RPG you played where you get to upgrade your stats, now imagine paying for them and having to find different NPCs that will do it for you.
It game can be fun at times when you are hacking your way threw things and getting some good loot, but I found myself stuck when having to deal with large masses of enemies. You just end up getting raped over and over by groups of wolves or other baddies, until you finally just crack the game and enable god mode and go on a killing spree.
Now to be fair the game cost 20 bucks, and I played it for about 15 hours before I got bored of it, so all in all, it beats most Xbox360 games which I’ve beaten in 4 hours.