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"Fallout 3 is the ultimate video game." - Game Critics Awards

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Prepare for the Future™
With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition includes all five of the Fallout 3 Game Add-on Packs:

Operation: Anchorage - Enter a military simulation and fight in the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders.
The Pitt - Travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh and become embroiled in a conflict between slaves and their Raider masters.
Broken Steel - Increase your level cap to 30, and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime.
Point Lookout - Embark on a mysterious and open-ended adventure in a huge, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland.
Mothership Zeta - Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the alien mothership, orbiting miles above the Capital Wasteland.

Key Features

Limitless Freedom - Take in the sights and sounds of the vast Capital Wasteland! See the great monuments of the United States lying in post-apocalyptic ruin! You make the choices that define you and change the world. Just keep an eye on your Rad Meter!
Experience S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Vault-Tec engineers bring you the latest in human ability simulation — the SPECIAL Character System! Utilizing new breakthroughs in points-based ability representation, SPECIAL affords unlimited customization of your character. Also included are dozens of unique skills and perks to choose from, each with a dazzling variety of effects!
Fantastic New Views - The wizards at Vault-Tec have done it again! No longer constrained to just one view, experience the world from 1st or 3rd person perspective. Customize your view with the touch of a button!
The Power of Choice - Feeling like a dastardly villain today, or a Good Samaritan? Pick a side or walk the line, as every situation can be dealt with in many different ways. Talk out your problems in a civilized fashion, or just flash your Plasma Rifle.
Blast 'Em Away With V.A.T.S. - Even the odds in combat with the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System for your Pip-Boy Model 3000! V.A.T.S. allows you to pause time in combat, target specific body parts on your target, queue up attacks, and let Vault-Tec take out your aggression for you. Rain death and destruction in an all-new cinematic presentation.
Mind-Blowing Artificial Intelligence - At Vault-Tec, we realize that the key to reviving civilization after a global nuclear war is people. Our best minds pooled their efforts to produce an advanced version of Radiant AI, America's First Choice in Human Interaction Simulation. Facial expressions, gestures, unique dialog, and lifelike behavior are brought together with stunning results by the latest in Vault-Tec technology.
Eye-Popping Prettiness* - Witness the harsh realities of nuclear fallout rendered like never before in modern super-deluxe HD graphics. From the barren Wasteland, to the danger-filled offices and metro tunnels of DC, to the hideous rotten flesh of a mutant's face.

*Protective Eyewear Encouraged.

System Requirements

Minimum:

Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Memory: 1 GB (XP)/ 2 GB (Vista)
Hard disk space: 7 GB
Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)
Sound: DirectX®: 9.0c
Controller support: Xbox 360 controller

Supported Video Card Chipsets:

NVIDIA GeForce 200 series, Geforce 9800 series, Geforce 9600 series, Geforce 8800 series, Geforce 8600 series, Geforce 8500 series, Geforce 8400 series, Geforce 7900 series, Geforce 7800 series, Geforce 7600 series, Geforce 7300 series, GeForce 6800 series
ATI HD 4800 series, HD 4600 series, HD 3800 series, HD 3600 series, HD 3400 series, HD 2900 series, HD 2600 series, HD 2400 series, X1900 series, X1800 series, X1600 series, X1300 series, X850 series

Recommended:

Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
Memory: 2 GB System RAM
Hard disk space: 7 GB
Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)
Sound: DirectX®: 9.0c
Controller support: Xbox 360 controller

Fallout® 3: Game of the Year Edition © 2009 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Fallout, Prepare for the Future and related logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bethesda Softworks LLC in the U.S. and/or other countries. All rights reserved.

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Posted: 11 August

Still one of the my favorite RPG. I completely lost myself in it on X360 & PS3. It still has much more value to me.

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Posted: 11 August

I remember when I loved this game. Then I played New Vegas and 2 and realized how meh it is. I'd still reccomend it though.

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Posted: 10 August

As a Fallout fan, i can safely say that this game is an perfect translation from the classical turn based rpg that the classical series was. It's really fun and has an insane amount of content. It feels grate to explore de wasteland and know the places!
BUT! The ending is ♥♥♥♥... even if you save "that mutant" the ending don't change... it's a shame because it don't let you finish the game to explore the DLCs.

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Posted: 10 August

I bought Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 the day it was released. Got the special edition with a bobble head, soundtrack, dvd and the lunch box.

I played through the campaign I don't know how many times. I eagerly waited for the dlc and the moment it was available. I bought it. No season passes then.

I also bought the digital version on the 360. Glad I did. It is also compatible with my Xbox One. Game and all dlc! Quite nice.

All in all I have played this game for well over 200+ hours. Thats including my 360 of course. I wanted to play it on the go, So I bought the steam version on sale around christmas time. I love it.

If you havn't played Fallout 3 by now. I highly recommend you do. ~ is your friend.

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Posted: 10 August

Huh, did you know this game has crab monsters?

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Posted: 10 August

Great game
Only problem for me is lack of achievements on pc only.

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Posted: 10 August

The first thing you will notice are the vastly outdated graphics, which just hurt your eyes and are nothing like the trailers and the screenshots. Everything is downgraded as usual. However, this is not the biggest of surprises in the game industry these days, so in my generosity, it can be forgiven.
What I and many others fail to understand is the concept of the game, for it simply isnt very well thought out before put into use. This is very obvious when you really start to understand the gameplay and try to execute the things you observe the game showing you, which eventually feels clunky, outdated and sometimes, unfortunately, even flat-out depressing.
Gameplay-wise, the game holds your hand almost all the time and it becomes really annoying, when you start to notice you have no real difference in the course of action. There are moments where you just feel completely lost and get annoyed at how everything doesnt quite fit together.
The controls dont feel fluid at all, and occasionally you feel like you're either stuck in the mud or glue, or the game intentionally was made hard and frustrating to control. Why would anyone want to offer the players of their game an experience like this?
And what's really frustrating are the sounds. It's like someone literally wanted to hire one of the worst composers, voice actors and the sound designers for this kind of a game! Could it be simply a bad decision from the lead of this project or very, very dark humor from the entire team of the game developers? You decide!
And dont even get me started on the AI. It's rather non-existent. Some games are famous for their silly bot-AI that keeps doing mistakes and failing at the only thing it was designed to do. The only difference between those games and this is that the AI here isn't even funny. It just wants to make you shout at it's actions in utter rage.
The performance of the game tends to be lackluster. Ive seen it perform badly on many different specs and machines, which cannot garner much respect, but at this point it doesn't really surprise, either.
All this could be fixed with at least a long, interesting story that would give content for your money and/or time, but it doesn't really offer either.
When you thought it couldn't get any worse, the game has more bugs here and there, hindering your already non-existent progressing and sucking the last drops of joy out of the experience
On top of all of this, the game is insanely difficult to progress in. Everything has been made non-intuitive for the average gamer, to the point even hardcore difficulty masochists will find it unpleasant to experience.
It all makes you think: Where is the game industry heading??

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Posted: 10 August

Better than Fallout 4... Not as good as Fallout: New Vegas.

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Posted: 9 August

If you want to play Fallout 3 on Windows 10, here's an easy fix.

If you have Fallout New Vegas, install the Tale of Two Wastelands mod.
If you don't, you're kinda ♥♥♥♥ed. Sorry.

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Posted: 9 August

Great game but I didn't get the DLCs with GoTY edition, waste of money.

Edit: After ticking all the boxes in the data files on the launcher and then waiting a day, in game time, the DLCs started to show. However, this game still crashes (a lot) on windows 7 or later, if you can find a fix for this online though, which isn't too hard then it's golden.

I give this a 7/10, would be higher if it was optimised for windows 7 and later.

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Heres20BucksKillMe

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Posted: 28 July

Is your Fallout 3 GOTY PC copy always freezing every 5 minutes? Here's an easy fix:
1) Search the fallout.ini file (back it up if you want)
2) Find the line: bUseThreadedAI=0
3) Change the line to: bUseThreadedAI=1
4) Now add another line after it and insert: iNumHWThreads=2

This will limit the game to 2 cores, and prevent the engine from freezing. Ever since I've used this quick solution I've had zero crashes. Have fun!

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[F8L] Mycrus

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Posted: 17 July

Very good story... bought this game twice.

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Meetch

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Posted: 25 July

Better than Fallout 4

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photonicpizza

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Posted: 2 August

Killed a 20 ft tall mutant by launching teddy bears at it

10/10 would bear again

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Caroline Middlebrook

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Posted: 28 July

I've tagged Fallout 3 as one of my top games in my Steam account. I've actually put way more hours into it than my Steam account shows (see note below), and it's one of my favourite games of all time.

I love the post apocalyptic setting - this game really pulls it off. But unlike some of the other Bethesda games such as Skyrim (which I also love!) this one has a really engaging landscape. There is stuff to check out everywhere! I get so sidetracked when doing quests because there's always something that catches my eye and I think "oooh what's that?" and I go check it out. There's so much to do!

In the most part the quests are really good, but I admit I was getting a little bit annoyed near the beginning of the main quest with the constant "looking for Dad".

One thing that is great about FO3 is the very satisfying weapons. Some shooters can be a little weak, and RPGs are usually weaker still with the FPS elements but I found FO3 to be very solid. Yeah the AI is not brilliant but the weapons themselves feel very good. I particularly love taking somebody's head off from half a mile away with a sniper rifle :-)

Also, you can't really talk about a Bethesda game without discussing mods! I'm a big modding fan and I never play these games vanilla for very long. I used FWE, MMM & EVE along with several mods that added new perks and a mod that allowed you to level up more slowly but get several perks per level which I really liked.

Overall, it's a fantastic game and I'm really looking forward to playing New Vegas and then Fallout 4! (Yep, I'm seriously behind on my gaming!)

Windows 7 Users Please Note:
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When I first started playing the game it was around 2011 and I ran it on an Alienware Windows XP machine and it ran very well. Then I stopped playing for a few years and came back to the game later after I had moved into a Windows 7 machine.

It crashed constantly, and when I saw constantly, I really mean it! After literally weeks of trying to get it to play properly on my 64 bit Win7 machine, trying every fix out there I gave up. However, I managed to get a pirated version of the game to work (doh!)

So whilst I absolutely recommend the game to anyone who loves shooters, RPGs or post apocalyptic games, if you have a Windows 7 machine, don't get the Steam version. Try and find an old disc based copy instead.

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Barricadas

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Posted: 8 August

I don't know why but whenever I start playing FO3, I get bored of it after completing about 75% of the game and stop playing. I started a third new game 3 days ago and played about 23 hours in just three days but just got bored. I am guessing that this has something to do with:

- Low citizen and human settlement count. Also some of these so called settlements only consist of 2-3-5 people (i.e. Girdershade).
- Major settlements such as Megaton and Rivet City have no logical reason to be major settlements. Maybe Megaton stays alive thanks to travelling caravans and only two Brahmin located in the centre (even Arefu has three) but there is no explanation of how Rivet City can even survive.
- Terrible gunplay, bullet sponge enemies such as Super Mutant Overlords, Feral Ghoul Reavers and Albino Radscorpions. For example a direct hit to a Super Mutant Overlord with a badass Fat Man will only take 33%-50% of its HP.
- Downtown DC, the most interesting part of the game is just rubble (justifiable) and all travelling goes through dungeon like metro tunnels.
- Quests are mostly forgettable and most of them are just glorified fetch quests. Some of the unmarked quests would make better quests if they were fleshed out.
- Factions are not fully developed and more interesting minor factions like The Union or Republic of Dave can be fully explored and related quests can be completed very quickly, without any human interaction.

Compared to New Vegas, where some major quests included very interesting and meaningful dialogues, a world that does not only revolve around you and combat being mostly an option and not as tiresome as FO3, Washington DC is just a post apocalyptic playground.

Nevertheless FO3 can entertain a player for a long while even though you may not find yourself patient enough to complete it. If you want a real Fallout, a Fallout that continues the legacy of being a mature Post Postapocalyptic game, you can just skip this and get yourself over to Fallout: New Vegas.

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cant trust them new turgays

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Posted: 16 July

Disclaimer: I got way more hours on this game than shown.

TL;DR Pretty good game if you're into Bethesda games, with typical emphasis on dialogue and exploration. Like any Bethesda game don't look here for particularly good gameplay though I would say it's not that bad, but at this point it may feel rather dated for an FPS.

I quite enjoyed this game, I rarely replay games, and this is one of the few I have, albeit my second playthrough was quite different from first. First being vanilla, no DLC with second being all DLC + a few of the most well known mods for the game.

Story - The main storyline is... Ok. Nothing special but passable for Bethesda main quest. As usual, side quests are where it's at for interesting story chunks. Though the last main mission is pretty epic.

Setting - Awesome world to explore. Chronologically it feels off but ignoring that, the world really gets what it set out to do, a lonesome nuked world. You can have plenty of fun simply walking around the world.

Gameplay - Pretty loose, wonky for an FPS. Personally on vanilla Fallout I just used VATS all the time. I wouldn't praise the game much for the gameplay, personally I find VATS to be decent but it's no top tier shooter or rpg in terms of action gameplay. Late game the game gets really easy, nothing will kill you once you hit higher levels. The dialogue system is great though and allows for choices that seem to matter, unlike fallout 4. The leveling system is great. All in all, the game is an rpg first shooter second.

Audio - The ambient non-radio music is very fitting, probably underrated since few actually listen to it. The radio has got those distinctive oldies retro songs everybody has come to love. Gun sounds are fine. The voices used for characters are pretty good.

Mods - The mod support for this game is top of the line. You can easily mod it to feel very different. Good ♥♥♥♥.

Lore - Something worth pointing out, though probably not an impact to many is that this game is NOT lore friendly to Fallout 1 or 2. This one of the biggest criticisms of this game, though many have not played those games (including myself) so you probably don't care, but it is what it is.

Really if you really enjoy Bethesda type games, where you just explore the world, get interesting sidequests, have great dialogue with npcs, then this really does it right. Just don't expect an amazing shooter, or a pretty looking game.

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Heisenberg 6.87

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Posted: 14 July

Great Story.

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Mr_Deadhead

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Posted: 13 July

This has got to be my favourite game of all time. Although fallout 3 is a worse Fallout game than New Vegas, it still offers a lot of freedom in terms of questline and karma choices. I felt the exploration in this game was superb and the post apocalyptic atmosphere was nailed on the head. Overall this game will give you a lot of play time, I have personally spent over 200 hours over Xbox 360 and PC playthroughs ( Please disregard my steam playtime as it is not an accurate representation of my total time played). Thoroughly recomended!

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A Cute Kitty

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Posted: 7 August

This was the first time I ever encountered the Fallout series, and through the literal s**tstorm that was GFWL I persisted. I must have pumped over 500 hours into this baby, not including the steam hours and this game still gives me thrills. DLC is still fun and engaging, and the fact that I've memorized so much of this game and can still get surprised by plot twists and random encounters speaks wonders. Or perhaps I'm mentally degenerating by the day, who knows?

My final recommendation for Fallout 3, 9/10. Its a beautiful game for its time but still has the Bethesda Notorious Bugginess; yet when it works still packs its atmospheric punch.

Also, F**K Ghoul Reavers.

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