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| From: Bethesda
Category: Video Games
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $64.99
You Save: $5.00 (7%)
New (21) Used (1) from $59.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 875
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Collector's
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6 x 3.8
MPN: 12860
Model: 12860
UPC: 093155128606
EAN: 0093155128606
ASIN: B0016BVYDY
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fallout 3 December 3, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Its more interesting than oblivion but there arent as much places to explore but when u do find a place to explore its usually huge.
 Where did all the endings go? December 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
So this is my second review ever on Amazon.Com. Here we go.
The good:
Very nice graphics! The world of the Wasteland really comes to life! Using the Pipboy as the interface to the game world made things seems very immersive, a very nice touch that I liked very much! I liked that touch very much!
The Bad:
The game is a tad buggy. I could only read the DVD on a single player out of the 4 I have. And that player is in a laptop that will not play the game. I had to make an image of the game, and then download the NoCD crack for it. Took me 3 days to get it to install on my game system. Then many times, at random, and very VERY suddenly, the game would freeze up. Usually I was left with no alternative but to hard boot my computer.
The Ugly:
I was under the impression this game had "over 200 endings!" Strange. I couldn't find more than 6. I played EVERY side quest there was. Then I went to complete the main quest. Which was ridiculously short (like around 5 hours). Just to find out that virtually NOTHING I did in ANY of the side quests changed the ending... AT ALL!
I'm thinking maybe they didn't mean 200 DIFFERENT endings... perhaps that's it... yeah.... Every time you play the game to the end... you get... an ending... Sure, it's the SAME ending. But play it 200 times and you'll get 200 endings. Genius!
Now some people wouldn't be bothered by this. But I played Fallout II and rate it as one of the all time best RPG's ever made. From the beginning of the game my hopes for Fallout III soared. I thought Bethesda had finally managed to do it right this time. I thought they had finally listened to the customers and made a truly great game.
Then they went and screwed it all up at the end. It feels like at some point somebody lost track of time. Like they spent months and months designing all the fantastic side quests, making all these plans for alternative endings then checked their watch and realized they had run out of time. "Crap! Well just end it right there and we'll ship what we have!" There isn't even a boss at the end you have to kill! You could get thru the end sequence at level one if you wanted to.
Needless to say my entire experience was ruined in one quick flash. If the endings had truly changed I wouldn't have minded the short main quest. Or the lack of a boss dude to pound on for awhile. Or the fact that you don't get to continue exploring once that main quest is finished. Or the crashes, lockups, inability to label any of your saved games so you can tell what you were doing when you saved at that point...
Oh well. It IS Bethesda after all. We need to remember to keep our standards low for them.
Bethesda kept it alive December 2, 2008
First off, amazon shipping it outstanding and I love their great service.
Now for the game.
Bethesda did a great job keeping the Fallout series going. All the nostalgics of Fallout; Puns, References, Humor, Gore, and Pip-boy are all here.
The sand box feel of the game is great, I have played for 20 hours and realized I still have not even finished the first story-quest of the main story line yet. So I got back on track and then started rolling with the story, and the story is great how you can choose what and how you will finish it.
I still have not finished the game yet, I get side-tracked and want to save and do things a different way - which some may say is bad. Do not confuse my way of playing with a flaw in the game, it is very easy to stay on course with the story I just love all the ways to do it.
So in closing, this game gets a 100/100 and I recommend it to all Fallout fans, Oblivion fans, and all other game fans.
Pretty rad December 1, 2008
Being a fan of the original series with sitting patient through the 10 years and the death of Van Buren, Fallout 3 was my highlight release of the year. Though it may be "Oblivion: this time with guns and a lot of brown" I still had a lot of fun. This game was not fallout to me but a different game that was still awesome. This game was also a little short compared to oblivion but when you think about it, the original fallout could be completed in about an hour.
Open-ended game unlike any other November 29, 2008
This game is so much fun! Instead of the typical "create your character" screens, you play through a series of events in your childhood in order to choose your attributes and skills, which adds a new level of immersion to the game. Once you leave the Vault, you are dropped into one of the most effectively realized post-apocalyptic visions of the Washington DC area imaginable. From there, you truly get to choose where to go and what to do, making a name for yourself along the way, whether as a savior of humanity or the most evil thing to wander the wastes. The main quest is engrossing and the side quests are a lot of fun, but exploration is what I found to be the most fun. You find somewhere new, only to see something interesting on the horizon, so you set off again. All in all, it's a great game, slightly sullied by the occasional crash, but Bethesda is working on patches for that. You should really get this game!!
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