Fallout 4: Automatron

 Xbox One
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6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 65 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 65
  3. Negative: 22 out of 65

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  1. McGillotine
    Mar 28, 2016
    3
    The cream of the crop in uninteresting stories, Fallout 4: Automatron works perfectly as a alternative sleeping pill, but creates an abysmal first impression for what is to come in Fallout 4's season pass. So why exactly deserve this statement and score? you might ask. Well let me bring out my trolley full of issues for this DLC.

    1. How do you want to approach this DLC good, good or    The cream of the crop in uninteresting stories, Fallout 4: Automatron works perfectly as a alternative sleeping pill, but creates an abysmal first impression for what is to come in Fallout 4's season pass. So why exactly deserve this statement and score? you might ask. Well let me bring out my trolley full of issues for this DLC.

    1. How do you want to approach this DLC good, good or good? Now where this was more prominent in the base game release. There is a lack of choice and RPG elements once again present in Automaton. As the same white picket fence responses are once again forced upon you, even the sarcastic options sound like they were written by Mr Rodgers himself making the entire story approach feel wooden and lifeless.

    2. Hope you like crafting!. With Automatron comes more and more building, and considering that Preston Garvey sucked the enjoyment out of settlement building with those tedious minutemen quests. It was no surprise that i ended up forcing myself to use the games "new exciting feature" to progress further into the main story which only led to future disappointment

    3. Want a new companion?, well your now forced to use her anyway. Automatron introduce ADA, a highly distracted, buggy and weak companion that about 70% of the time just ends up knocking itself out, where Danse or Piper would have been my original choice the story drives to a staggering holt during the final act in which you are forced to finally make use of her, that is if she doesn't glitch into an object or stop mid-action during the endgame

    4. The couldn't care less about what happens. This plot was cliche to the point where it gave Michael Bay a run for his money, Bad guy wanted to be a good guy, check; Robots have feeling too, check; World would be better off without humans, check. The list goes on, it's honestly giving me a headache just thinking about it.

    Verdict: save you're money    … Expand
  2. nurfedx
    Nov 19, 2021
    4
    Mediocre Game and an Insult to every Fallout-Veteran. Still better than F76 tho. DONT BUY!
  3. RGNS
    Nov 7, 2022
    0
    Cant see enemies. Dont know where they shooting from. Dogmeat gets in the way while i am looting. Asking me to kill raiders in a factory or some crap but the raiders dont come to me! I must find them and then kill them? Grenade markers are worthless. CRAP GAME WASTE OF TIME. STUPID BETHESDA. EAT 0 NOOB DEVS. CANT EVEN MAKE GAME THESE STUPID DEVS.

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Metascore
74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. LevelUp
    Apr 11, 2016
    77
    Despite being brief and a bit redundant on the argument side, Automatron adds quite a lot to the Fallout 4 universe and the price is just right.
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  2. God is a Geek
    Apr 10, 2016
    70
    Fallout 4's first DLC offering adds some interesting elements to the established formula, but it's over in a blink and still just as buggy.
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  3. High-Def Digest
    Apr 10, 2016
    80
    The quick and somewhat forgettable mission material is buoyed by strong crafting elements and a more player-oriented approach to companions.
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