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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Immense Value for Money, 16 Oct 2009
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Firstly, the standard game alone will provide hours of entertainment. It's one of my all time favourite games and will probably be yours too once you get into it. To sum it up Fallout 3 is set 2277, in a post apocalyptic wasteland (US and China went to war) where mankind is struggling to survive. You have lived in a vault all your life, and its been closed for 200 years. But your dad opens the vault and mysteriously disappears -- this is when you go out into the wasteland in search for him. The rest is history is guess. Its a fantastic story with unlimited variety.
Now for the add-ons, this Game of Year edition includes the original FO3 game as well as all 5 add-on packs. Its great value and is about £20 cheaper than buying/downloading each add-on seperatley. Don't get this wrong, these aren't quick attempts to rake in some money but fully fledged stories which add hours onto the already generous storyline, best of all there is 5 of them.
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THE ADD-ONS
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Operation: Anchorage. Enter a military simulation and fight in one of the greatest battles of the Fallout universe - the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders. Gain access to unique armor, weapons, and exotic gadgets while you build and command interactive Strike Teams to win the battle and defeat the Chinese base.
The Pitt allows you to travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and become embroiled in a conflict between slaves and their Raider masters. Explore a sprawling settlement ravaged by time, neglect, nuclear radiation, and moral degradation. The Pitt is filled with morally grey choices, shady NPCs, new enemies, new weapons, and much mo
Continue your existing Fallout 3 game and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime. Broken Steel moves the level cap for your character from 20 to 30, allowing you to experience even more of the game, including new perks and achievements.
Point Lookout opens up a massive new area of the Wasteland - a, dark, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland. So hop on the ferry to the seaside town of Point Lookout, for the most mysterious and open-ended Fallout 3 DLC adventure yet.
Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the massive Mothership Zeta, orbiting Earth miles above the Capital Wasteland. Mothership Zeta takes Fallout 3 in an entirely new direction - outer space. Meet new characters and join with them in a desperate bid to escape the Aliens' clutches. To do so, you'll wield powerful new weapons, like the Alien Atomizer, Alien Disintegrator, and Drone Cannon, and deck yourself out in brand new outfits, like the Gemini-Era Spacesuit and even Samurai Armor.
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CONCLUSION
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I thoroughly enjoyed all 5 of the new add-ons, they were great in their own way. I think Mothership Zeta was the weakest though, and Broken Steel is easily the best. It raises your level ability , and continues the original story perfectly. Even so, once you have finished this you'll just want to play them all.
I'd advise you to play them in the order below (just my opinion)
1ST = FALLOUT 3 STORY - make sure you spend your sweet time doing everything you can
2nd = BROKEN STEEL
3RD = OPERATION ACNHORAGE
4TH = THE PITT
5TH = POINT LOOKOUT
6TH = MOTHERSHIP ZETA
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
a great game, but damn...., 2 Nov 2009
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
ill start this by saying that fallout 3 is one of the finest games available today, but i have to give goty edition the lowest score for being virtually unplayable.
this review is once again to mention the constant freezing which leads to restarts every few minutes. i played the original fallout 3 on my old 360, which of course died so i picked up a ps3 and the goty edition. i played the entire fallout 3 storyline without a hitch, but then i attempted to begin the expansion material and all hell broke loose.
operation anchorage first, from the moment i got into the pod i started freezing up, at most i could get 10 minutes of playtime before i had to restart. even though i was saving the game constantly, its still 3 - 4 minutes to reboot the console and reload the game. for me personally, 5 - 10 minutes of gameplay interspersed with 3 - 4 minutes of loading doesnt make for a game, im not a beta tester i payed good money for this!
point lookout then, this actually worked a little better (operative word there: little) i could get between 20 - 30 minutes before the game froze up. bu after finishing off that storyline, i returned to the wasteland to find the freezes had returned with me. now i cant even reach the "into the pit" signal, im freezing up every few minutes as i walk through the map.
all i can say is wait, hope for a patch or something to fix this nightmare. some folks are saying a new file doesnt have this issue but im playing this game from scratch on the goty disk and ive got it bad.
its a great game, well worth a punt, but not in this state. give bethesda time to fix it with patches before trying it out.
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Glorious Fallout, 19 Oct 2009
Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
Fallout is a brilliant game, you probably wouldn't be reading this review if you didn'y know that already.
However, if you play the GOTY edition using your old save from the standard Fallout disc, the games is plagued with bugs and sometimes crashes completely. I can't even play Mothership Zeta because it freezes every time I try to embark on the mission and I've tried about ten times, even done a load of other things and then tried again.To not even be able to play a whole new part is more than anoying. My only option is to start the game from scratch, spending another 70 hours to get to the Alien ship, so it may or may not work!
There are SERIOUS frame rate issues, ie, you basically have to turn the console off and reload. This seems to happen every couple of hours or so, which is frustrating. According to various forums, the bigger file size of your save file, the worse the problem is. I'm amazed they released this edition without ironing out these game crippling bugs.
On the plus side, mothership Zeta is supposed to be the worst of the five add-ons. It's still Fallout, glorious fallout. It's that good that having to reload the console every few hours isn't too bad. If you're starting from scratch, buy this version as you won't have so many crashing issues. If you're playing off an old save, you need to be ready for the imminent system crashes. But you know you still strangely love it!
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