Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

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8.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 97 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 14 out of 97
  3. Negative: 7 out of 97
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  1. JaydenPickens
    Feb 20, 2019
    8
    Great package of my least fav Fallout game (haven't played the 4th one yet). Pickens approves!
  2. KontraKommando
    Jul 22, 2013
    10
    I first played Fallout 3 recently for Xbox 360, since my brother picked it up on sale. It seemed liked a very good game, but was obviously dated, being it was release in 2008. But like I learned in my college world art class, we cannot compare Giotto's work to works of the High Renaissance; we must appreciate the value it had in the time of its creation. During the Steam Summer Flash sale,I first played Fallout 3 recently for Xbox 360, since my brother picked it up on sale. It seemed liked a very good game, but was obviously dated, being it was release in 2008. But like I learned in my college world art class, we cannot compare Giotto's work to works of the High Renaissance; we must appreciate the value it had in the time of its creation. During the Steam Summer Flash sale, I saw Fo3:GTYE for a low price of $11.99, and decided to purchase it. Since it was the Game of the Year Edition, it had all of the DLCs, therefore was well worth the price. But perhaps the best part about owning the PC version is taking advantage of all of the marvelous modifications from nexusmods and other sources. Some of these modifications definitely help the game to become more relevant in terms of graphics, as well as enhance game play. These mods transcend Fallout 3 from a decent five year old game, to a spectacular and fresh gaming experience. I would strongly recommend anyone thinking of purchasing Fallout 3 today, to go with the PC version.… Expand
  3. Atech66
    Aug 9, 2011
    10
    This game kicks ass on every level.
    Core i7 920,GTX275,6 gigs Mushkin DDR3 and runs beautifully so the people saying quad cores have an issue.. nah.. you may have an issue.
    Depth of story is been built upon for years and years from FO to NV. this still remains my favorite of the series.. the graphics, environment,NPC's all grab you and pull you in to where you forget yourslef and    This game kicks ass on every level.
    Core i7 920,GTX275,6 gigs Mushkin DDR3 and runs beautifully so the people saying quad cores have an issue.. nah.. you may have an issue.
    Depth of story is been built upon for years and years from FO to NV. this still remains my favorite of the series.. the graphics, environment,NPC's all grab you and pull you in to where you forget yourslef and thats quality.
    this game is 10/10, 100%, KA award and a legend that stands along with the best ever made.    … Expand
  4. pickledcheez
    Sep 3, 2011
    10
    This game was the bomb of the RPG genre. Going around, shooting people with your Gatling laser, totally worth the 30 bucks. I would recommend this game to anyone because it actually makes sense, unlike Borderlands when you just find a key for a gay Vault, this has a True story. And this is working fine on a Single Core AMD Athlon 3500+
  5. OliverGrau
    Oct 13, 2011
    10
    Great graphics, great storyline (you choose your own path), you can be, who you want to be. can help who you want to help, kill who you want to kill, talk you trough stuff.
    Fallout 3: Game of the year edition is probably one of the best games I ever have played, and ever will play. I would recommend it to everyone, it's worth every coin. - Though there is a lot of problems with it and    Great graphics, great storyline (you choose your own path), you can be, who you want to be. can help who you want to help, kill who you want to kill, talk you trough stuff.
    Fallout 3: Game of the year edition is probably one of the best games I ever have played, and ever will play. I would recommend it to everyone, it's worth every coin. - Though there is a lot of problems with it and windows 7-64 bit, I will give it 10 out of 10, I'm playing it on 64-bit, it was hard to get to work, but now I can't stop playing. :)    … Expand
  6. whitespider999
    Feb 13, 2012
    9
    When this game first came out, this game was a masterpiece. It still is. And if game bugs really annoy you, A: Understand that it's the price you pay for a bethesda game and B: This is the game to play over new vegas. However since game bugs don't 'bug' me nearly as much as some people (a single game bug or quest hang can put them off entirely) - I still prefer new vegas. It's got moreWhen this game first came out, this game was a masterpiece. It still is. And if game bugs really annoy you, A: Understand that it's the price you pay for a bethesda game and B: This is the game to play over new vegas. However since game bugs don't 'bug' me nearly as much as some people (a single game bug or quest hang can put them off entirely) - I still prefer new vegas. It's got more crazy random content.

    That said, in many regards this game has stood the test of time perfectly. And thanks to modding on the pc, you can play an all new game when or if you ever get tired of skyrim. This is an 8.9/10 now. And was a 10/10 on release. Rounds out to a 9/10 on metacritic.    … Expand
  7. sft
    May 22, 2013
    10
    A nuclear blast with a look to the past

    Simply put, this is one of the best games I’ve played (right up there with HL2 even!). The Capital Wastelands is a huge open world providing many hours of completely absorbing fun. The story is staple SF stuff but the multiple quests required to complete it, along with the equally numerous side quests, make it satisfying enough. What’s so    A nuclear blast with a look to the past

    Simply put, this is one of the best games I’ve played (right up there with HL2 even!). The Capital Wastelands is a huge open world providing many hours of completely absorbing fun. The story is staple SF stuff but the multiple quests required to complete it, along with the equally numerous side quests, make it satisfying enough. What’s so impressive is the sheer scale and immersive quality of the world created by Bethesda. You can wander for hours around the Wastelands. I completed every single quest in the main game plus the 5 DLCs that come with the GOTY edition, then went in search of every bobblehead and every behemoth I hadn’t already encountered, and now I’m finishing off the unlisted quests so far I’ve spent almost 170 hours in this game and have enjoyed every minute of it. The graphics are very good, if not quite on a par with very recent games. The voice acting is good throughout (one would expect no less from the likes of Liam Neeson), and the dialogue trees are often large and humorous. Also worth mentioning is the inspired retro design and use of music from the 1930s and 40s. The only downside is that it’s a little unstable under Windows 7 (but you can’t blame Bethesda for that, as it was created before the release of the operating system). If only all computer games were as good as this. Excellent.    … Expand
  8. BariscanBozkurt
    Nov 19, 2015
    10
    Bana en çok hangi oyundan etkilendin diye sorduklarında aklıma her zaman ilk olarak gelecek oyun bu, Fallout 3. Zamanına göre çok iyi grafikler, çok iyi soundtracklar, çok iyi rol yapma öğeleri ile çok iyi bir açık dünya. Dolu dolu bugları vardı ancak biz bu oyunu buglarıyla sevdik. Oynayın, oynattırın bu klasik oyunu.
  9. ccrogers15
    Nov 17, 2011
    2
    for what was a very creative and fun game series, fallout NV and 3 set an all time low. Sure, fallout 3 and NV pulled the series to 3d and open, and i admit it was kind of fun, but that fun was ruined by the major bugs, freezes, glitches and crashes i experienced on my copy. it happened on my PC,ps3 and 360 copies so its not my system. This is a very crap game that does not deserve afor what was a very creative and fun game series, fallout NV and 3 set an all time low. Sure, fallout 3 and NV pulled the series to 3d and open, and i admit it was kind of fun, but that fun was ruined by the major bugs, freezes, glitches and crashes i experienced on my copy. it happened on my PC,ps3 and 360 copies so its not my system. This is a very crap game that does not deserve a sequel. If 4 gets made, it must not be developed by obsidian and not use that crap gamebryo engine. I cant even tell you how bad the DLC makes it. Its unplayable after 3 hours gameplay. its like it purposly freezes to tick you off!… Expand
  10. gamng
    Aug 14, 2010
    4
    Game have too many slave-quests, like make this, and for this u must run 100 miles and shoot to all generated monsters and crime-men.

    Fallout 1 and 2 was made for more freedom of players. And if u clear some place this place still clean.

    For playing with enjoy player must fully understand textual and audio information in game. But Fallout 3 on Steam-system was without Russian language.
  11. DeusXCom
    Aug 3, 2014
    8
    Most of the content of basic Fallout 3 left me kinda disappointed and wanting something more, something better. Exactly that has been slightly fixed with the GOTY version and all 5 of it's DLC's - Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Mothership Zeta and especially Point Lookout, which was the highlight of this collection and the experience there was probably better than anythingMost of the content of basic Fallout 3 left me kinda disappointed and wanting something more, something better. Exactly that has been slightly fixed with the GOTY version and all 5 of it's DLC's - Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Mothership Zeta and especially Point Lookout, which was the highlight of this collection and the experience there was probably better than anything the main Fallout 3 game has to offer. The GOTY version of F3 with many bugs fixed and the extra DLC content got really solid and is definitely the way to go if you want to play this at all. Still nowhere near the excellent quality of the first 2 Fallout titles, or New Vegas which I recommend over this any day, but even Fallout 3 and it's expansions are worth playing, although it's undoubtedly and by far the weakest chapter in the Fallout series. Bethesda should stick to The Elder Scrolls and leave Fallout series to the original masters. 8/10… Expand
  12. BOWi
    Nov 4, 2022
    5
    I played a bit on PS3, but I'm afraid to invest time on PC because apparently I should download mods and an unofficial patch that fixes hundreds of bugs that Bethesda never took the time to fix themselves...

    Why should I do all of this? Should I?

    I like games that you can simply install and play. :(
  13. nurfedx
    Nov 19, 2021
    10
    One of the best games to the series and an All-time Classic. Also, the last Decent Fallout Game!
  14. ProfAmateur
    Nov 21, 2022
    7
    It took me a few hours of gameplay before the game was fun. It's not all that easy to get into. The difficulty level is also quite hard. If needed you can redeem ingame cheat codes for weapons etc to make the game a bit easier.
    + Live pause, select action and execute is fun.
    + Good GOTY Side-Quests + Speech dialogs and answer choices feel believable and have effective impact (not like    It took me a few hours of gameplay before the game was fun. It's not all that easy to get into. The difficulty level is also quite hard. If needed you can redeem ingame cheat codes for weapons etc to make the game a bit easier.
    + Live pause, select action and execute is fun.
    + Good GOTY Side-Quests
    + Speech dialogs and answer choices feel believable and have effective impact (not like Mass-Effect).
    - You feel a bit lost at the beginning
    - In some missions it's hard to figure out what/where/how to do. So hard that only youtube videos help.
    - Crashes
    - Some bugs
    - Performance    … Expand
  15. nevugremo
    Jul 28, 2023
    5
    There are too many bugs and "Take it back" mission doesn't compelete because of BUGS. I can't finish game. Tried for hours to solve but nothing.
  16. Wolfgirl3302
    Jul 25, 2021
    10
    I originally played Fallout 4 and when I got my PS3 and began my search for a Fallout game, I stumbled upon Fallout 3 and immediately fell in love. I found that I liked playing 3 MUCH more than I did 4. Total win for me. Can't wait to try more of the Fallout franchise!
  17. nastyjes
    Mar 19, 2023
    4
    The DLCs slightly improve the overall experience. But it's a very mediocre game overall. If you like Fallout, then play the first two parts and New Vegas. If you like Bethesda games then play Skyrim or Fallout 4 (not really sure about the last one).