Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

This is a review for the port not the game. If you like fallout games and simply want more then sure go play but otherwise ehhh just go play New Vegas. The port however is awful. I understand that there is modding support but what I don't understand is why the game will not keep track of my hour count or have any kind of achievements when New Vegas on the same engine has both of those. It runs incredibly poorly for a game from the ps360 era on my extremely modern PC especially the DLC areas like Mothership Zeta or the Pitt they gave me the most frame dips. This alongside the numerous crashes and bugs that can sometimes even keep you from advancing quests make this an embarrassing port of an already meh game.

It's not the best example of the series, and it needs a lot of attention to get it up and running reliably on modern systems, but it's a genuine Classic rpg. Get it on sale and experience it if you haven't!

Steam shows me playing for only 5 hours, but I've actually played for hundreds of hours previously on Xbox Live. Lots of fun exploring the Fallout world! And in this game, you're father is Liam Neeson! 'Nuff said.

This game is a turning point in the fallout series of games.

Fallout 1-2 was isometic. Fallout 3 is first person with a option to play 3rd person in limted capacity.

For me i liked the - back when i played it - modern visuals over fallout 1/2.

Pro tip: if you wanna play Fallout 3 or Fallout new vegas (both some of the best Fallout games there is) then go to gog.com and buy the game there.
The problem is that the steam version of those games run with (or tries to run is more correct) games for windoes. That is a oooold program that microsoft used that dont work any more. And it causes problems that are not in the gog.com version.

theres are still problem with making the game run on modern systems tho, and a moderen remaster would be a cool thing for Bethesda to do!

An interesting experiment to be sure. Wildly successful in adapting the heights of Fallout's pulp goodness to a 3D world but the writing's taken a sad turn towards the weaker parts of Fallout 2's writing in both the main story and sundry questlines. Combat's clunky but often strangely satisfying and there's a heart to it that carries it.

Heavily bullied vault girl kills everyone in vault and goes on to make the wasteland 100% worse and 50% less populated. 8/10

It doesn't even function. Game crashes upon attempting to start a new game. Only reason I'm not refunding is because I intend on modding it to make it function someday, and also prolly cuz I've already waited too long to do so. After getting fed up trying to fix the issue, I gave up and went to play New Vegas instead. I dunno what cleanup work Obsidian did to Bethesda's engine, but New Vegas still works fine for me. Genuinely disgusted by Bethesda now. Get your lazy, incompetent asses back over here and fix your damn product.

The game is really fun. I used to play it a ton on console. I've only got it to run on my computer about 5 times total in the last few years. It was working prior to the last "fix" that apparently worked for a lot of people. I'm glad it worked for them, but now my fallout 3 is back to crashing as soon as I try to load it. Nothing in anyone's guides helps either since the game is so old, by now the problem could be literally anything. I don't recommend anyone installing the steam version of this game. Honestly, just buy a playstation off ebay and get the disk. Its worth it.

Unpopular opinion, this games better than NV. For me its mainly the nostalgia as i remember me and my buddy playing this on my brothers old Xbox 360 when he was hunting or out of the house. 9/10, a little bit of lag but the spectacular story, side quests and DLC's make up for it.

Fun, although its kinda limited with the endings i still feel like this is one of my favorite entries to this series.

Fallout 3 is a great place to begin if you're new to the franchise, but it's a bit dated by mid-2025 standards. While it isn't as mind-blowing as it might have been when it first released, it is still an incredibly fun experience that almost any RPG fan can get into, especially with the help of some mods.

Good open world RPG with a rich storyline and character development elements.

Honestly way better than i expected it to be. The gameplay and the graphics are pretty solid they could be way worse for the time the game came out. I also haven`t encountered any major bugs so far, only one time when all the enemies in the pitt where spawning at one spot near me making it almost impossible for me to get out of there. All in all the game is pretty addicting, i have spend like 15 hours in it already other than what steam shows, idk why they wont actually track it but the game is really worth the money.

it sucks because of it's damn incompatibility so does other people say it too.

really really boring coming back after playing better RPGs, and the combat isnt even good to make up for it, honestly just watch a lets play of the game if youre interested in its story or anything

For all it's flaws, I really do love this game. Shame I can't play it anymore because it's the year 2025 and they still can't get the game to run.

The game crashes the second after I try to start a new game. Truly another masterpiece by Todd Howard.

Classic post apocalypse RPG. Plenty of fun to be had in the Capitol Wastes.

underrated af, not a new vegas lvl game, but sure is close

May not be the best story wise but it is still pretty good with the landscape and such.

you're probably buying this game as it comes bundled with a few others. its nice to come back and play this game you probably haven't touched since your PS3 broke. worth it IMO but the real question is: what will you do with megaton this time?

88/100

My personal favourite Fallout game. It's not a super complicated "RPG" but it's nostalgic and moody. Beware younger gamers and closed minded gamers, Fallout 3 is old and takes a bit of patience.

Depending on your setup it will crash. I did pure vanilla playthrough - no modding. I could count on one hand how many times I crashed throughout my 40+ hour run. It's a lot more stable than I remembered. (1200p/60fps)

although my play hours don't reflect the real time I've spent in this game and the steam is not counting my latest playthrough after many years I have to review this somewhat underrated game..

It is the first Fallout in 3D environment, and although is not the best one, in my opinion, it is a very important and good game. It has many visual similarities with Elder Scrolls Oblivion with the engine and everything except it is happening in post-apocalyptic world of Washington D.C. instead of Cyrodiil.
Story is good, atmosphere and soundtrack are great, also the DLC's are very good and memorable and add nicely to a game.

A great window into the nostalgia of a game from my childhood, Fallout 3 is a very fun, exciting, and interesting story to play through. It may not be the best, but it will always be my favorite.

One of the better Fallout games, but not the best. Hours of fun, as much challenge as you want, and it's replayable. Also one of the most iconic yet forgettable maps in video game history.

It's janky as heck, but if you enjoy older games this is fun. I played it on xbox 360 like 15-16 years ago and this was like reliving the old days.

Huh, no wonder I played this game once and then proceeded to never again for 7 years. I have been spoiled rotten by New Vegas.

The writing sucks, there are no consequences to any of your actions, the final ending is a literal walking sim making me realize the BOS ending of Fallout 4 is literally just "HEY DO YOU WANNA DO THE FALLOUT 3 ENDING AGAIN?"

1 speech check can talk the president of the United States into blowing himself up. I bomb an entire city and my dad just says "I'm disappointed, we'll talk about this later" and then dies. I infect the water with the FEV and yet everyone in the Capitol Wasteland is still alive despite the cutscene telling me it's become a graveyard and the fuckin' BOS Elder tells me the Purifier is working perfectly fine not acknowledging the literal irritated water.

Dialogue options are weak as fuck to straight up stupid and the speech checks are a joke just like in Fallout 4.

In the end I'm glad I played this game again so I can truly know how abhorrently dumb this game is, and it has further fueled my claim that there will never be a good written Bethesda game as long as Emil Pagliarulo is a lead writer at the company. If you like this game for whatever reason, good for you. I'm happy for you. Personally for me tho, I'll stick to being a mailman absolutely fucking up the political sphere of the Mojave.

I will say tho, ran pretty decent on my Steam Deck with only a few crashes. That's a positive at least. Oh, and the Pint Sized Slasher quest is the only good part of the game.

Fallout 3 is a genre-defining RPG that offers an immersive post-apocalyptic world filled with compelling storytelling, memorable characters, and expansive exploration. Its engaging gameplay and moral choices create a unique and rewarding experience. A must-play for fans of open-world adventures!

goated game

follow this link for a short, direct, no bs guide for your game not being broken:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDTViZGRhJo

One of my favorite games from my childhood.

BUT...

The pc version of this game has a lot of issues. I had difficulties getting the game to run on OpenSUSE. Even after I figured out the crashing on launch, I experienced at least one crash every few hours, and grass textures were really buggy.

Nestle (enclave) got mad I was selling water that wasnt stolen so I blew up their operations base and exploded their chatgpt president, w game

(ignore my playtime - I've done several runthroughs using THE TALE OF TWO WASTELANDS).

This was my introduction to Bethesda games (and the Xbox 360) back in the holidays of 2008. It caught my eye at Gamestop because I thought the power armor looked like a Gundam.

Fastforward 17 years, and Fallout is probably my favorite franchise of all time. The humor, the anger, the juxtaposition of it all.

One of my favorite moments in gaming happened on that first playthrough. I picked up Dogmeat early on in the game, and he and I were inseparable. When I picked up Fawkes, he joined our posse, and it was like traveling the wasteland with your best friends. Then, at the battle of Project Purity - unscripted - both died. Dogmeat killed by an Enclave soldier with a Ripper; Fawkes blown up by a missile launcher.

I didn't reload. In a rage, I killed every single Enclave soldier at the Jefferson Memorial. I didn't even let Colonel Autumn finish talking - got a bullet to the brain. When I was given the opportunity to sacrifice myself at Project Purity, I took it. Why wouldn't I? My family just died. I had to let their sacrifice mean something.

It's stuck with me all these years. It was the moment where I realized videogames could tell incredible stories, AND they didn't have to be scripted.

10/10 game (but if you want to play it, I recommend using the Tale of Two Wastelands modlist to make it work on modern hardware!)

A classic fallout game defiantly a must play. I've run into bugs but nothing game breaking. Performance is decent could be better in some areas with fps drops. Overall a great a story and gameplay.

This is one of my favorite games of all time. I play it atleast once every year. The gametime I have on Fallout 3 is in the thousands. I bought it 3 times during the Xbox 360/PS3 era of gaming, the 3rd time being the game of the year edition, 3 just hits different, Fallout New Vegas is certainly the best in the series but where it fell short was it's environment and atmosphere (Dead Money DLC with the Sierra Madre sated my hunger for this but unfortunately it's just a chunk of area). It just didn't feel apocalyptic; the locations, scenery and general vibe in 3 smoke New Vegas' imo and can genuinely be creepy at some times! The soundtrack is absolutely incredible, very nostalgic to me of course but the way that it amplifies the feeling of loneliness, doom, and sometimes grittiness is absolutely wonderful. Now is does the game feel dated all these years later? Absolutely, the combat especially was never the best but still there's still enough there to get the job done and keep you interested. But to me, It's the world of Fallout 3 that keeps me coming back. I feel like that art and style of this game is timeless.

uh is this game broken for anyone else or is it just me? i have 37ish hours on this but i tried to play it recently and i cant get past the launcher?

The main story and side quests aren't as good as New Vegas, but the environmental storytelling is more enjoyable for me at least. The DLC are also hit and miss, Point Lookout and the Pitt are good, Mothership Zeta and Operation Anchorage are asinine. Overall, its pretty good and one of the last Bethesda games worth its salt.

Played this game many years ago when it first came out, and it was not only legendary and iconic upon release but at the time was my #1 favorite gaming experience of ALL TIME and is now #2 next to Cyberpunk 2077 that is now my #1 favorite game of all time. BOTTOM LINE: Even after almost 20 years this game still holds up TODAY and is still incredibly immersive despite it's age and slightly dated graphics. It's in my opinion the BEST Fallout game in the series PERIOD END OF STORY! If you're a fallout fan, BUY THIS GAME! You won't regret it!

Unpopular opinion, but this is my favorite game out of the Fallout series. The gameplay is SUPER dated, and the game can definitely have some stability problems, but there are not many series that create worlds as interesting and atmospheres as immersive as the fallout series does. Every entry in the series (with the exception of fallout 76, although even that has gotten better in recent times), has stood the test of time as incredible games in their own right. Fallout 3 stands out even among the rest of the Fallout series as a game with a gripping world that is dipping with a dark, post-apocalyptic atmosphere that a lot of the other games lack. (I have MANY more hours in this game on console btw)

It's fun to play, Open world. You don't have to do the quests in order. You can get help in a fight.

Best Fallout game there is, Really feels like a pure fallout game, best DLC's known to man that feels original. and of course one of the best feelings of nostalgia. people say that FNV is better but have never truly touched this game and its DLC's

Fallout 3 is a good game, not as good as New Vegas but still a good game that's worthy of your time. Don't listen to the haters, Fallout 3 is a good to decent game. It's just a shame that Bethesda didn't learn from their mistakes from this title and onward.

again I wish there was a "take it or leave it" button. on its own its an impressive jump to 3d. its a proof of concept that did feel good at the time... until the plot endpoint was reached. it became painfully contrived and hamfisted to the point where a lot of stuff stopped making sense.

HOWEVER, rather than truly doubling down they "fixed it" in post and apart from the beginning of the downfall of a once treasured game studio: it was proof they could reach deep inside themselves and try to fix it.

unfortunately it is a buggy mess with muddy murky graphics no matter what you do.

take it or leave it. mods go far, maybe far enough to make it very worth your while.

Decently good game for being the first attempt at fallout in 3d.

Story is weak but it has liam neeson so it gets a pass.

Honestly, my favorite out of all the Fallout games I've played. The GECK was better, too, albeit buggy; you had the freedom to design whatever you wanted. Mod this bad boy and enjoy the world all over again. I have no idea how many times I've played it.

The only thing i needed to make it work was the intel graphics bypass, it essentially emulates an older graphics card inside the fallout software to trick the software into thinking your computer runs a nvidia graphics card, that being said you will notice your specs arent correct after installing but this is normal. Before this i couldnt get past the launcher and now ive modded the game to hell and back. get yourself vortex through nexus mods and itll install these mods/patches for you, after getting vortex get the intel bypass mod from nexus mods, when you download anything off nexus itll prompt you to open iit in vortex, at which point vortex will unpack the mod and file it away accordingly assuring you the smoothest possible modded game with the ease of AI mod managing. This is in no way a paid review or endorsement ive made no profit off this statement i just want people to be able to play and i know it took me years to make this work, come to find out it was this simple the whole time.

much better running version of fallout 3 on pc, definitely the best way to play

Having no problems running this on Windows 10 and only had to make minor ini changes for Ultrawide. The only glitch I experience from time to time is that the game won't start up again after alt TAB. Other than that runs perfectly. One of the best RPGs of all time.

DO NOT BUY THIS. The game literally does not function. They are selling something that literally does not work. This game should be removed from steam as it does not function at the most fundamental level.

I love the post war wastelands! very nostalgic for me i played this with all the DLC when it first came out. after getting back into it i would say it has all the same feel that it always did.

I would not recommend this game. I installed and tried to play it and when I did the launcher popped up. When the launcher popped up a message appeared saying the game would detect my graphics card and make adjustments. click ok. then another message says graphics has been set to ultra high. click ok. Press play and the launcher goes off screen. When that happens it goes right back to the desktop like I never pressed play in the launcher. Yes I checked to make sure my PC meets the requirements and I googled for answers for days. I did not find anything that fixed the problem so i'm getting my money back. Which is very disappointing considering I was really looking forward to playing it.