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Fallout 3
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Worth Playing
Imagine if 1950s Cold War paranoia and its sci-fi super future mentality had actually succeeded in building its pie-in-the-sky ideals, with white picket fences on every corner and nuclear-powered cars in every driveway.
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TotalVideoGames
Some things, however, have changed.
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GameZone
I would be lying to you if I told you I wasn't amped up about this game.
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GamingExcellence
October 28, 2008 - It’s been a decade since the last Fallout release, and a lot has happened since then. In 2004, Interplay shut down, leaving many fans thinking the Fallout franchise could be gone forever.
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Meristation
Ha llegado el momento, la tercera entrega de una de las sagas de rol más laureadas por público y crítica está a las puertas de su lanzamiento.
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Gameplanet
They are little imaginary windows to an existence where modern civilisation fails, and the earth reverts to the Lord of the Flies on a global scale.
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AtomicGamer
Somewhere around the time I got to the National Mall, that area in Washington, D.C. between the Washington Monument and the Capitol Building and found it to be a war zone, I realized that Fallout 3 is the best game Bethesda Softworks has ever made.
...read the complete Fallout 3 review at AtomicGamer
Gamer 2.0
November 3,2008 - Fallout 3 has impressed many from the start. After winning numerous pre-release awards, Bethesda seems poised to continue its massive success from the Elder Scrolls series.
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IGN
Fallout 3 is a special videogame. It's an open-world role-playing game that delivers an experience unlike anything on the market right now.
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MEGamers
While there are some games that are keen on sending you straight into battle regardless of the bronze pin on your shirt, Fallout 3 takes a more detailed approach, treating you like a
baby and showing your way through.
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
In 1997, Interplay published Fallout, a post-apocalyptic role-playing game noted for funny, challenging open-ended gameplay. A year earlier, Bethesda Softworks released The Elder Scrolls II, a fantasy RPG also praised for allowing players great freedom.
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Thunderbolt
When I heard that Bethesda, the company behind the Elder Scrolls series, was going to be responsible for Fallout 3, I was more than a little skeptical. Now, I have nothing against Bethesda.
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G4
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to nuke the absolute shit out of ourselves, at least we can be secure in the knowledge that the survivors will get to live one of the great American dreams: kicking ass in a post-nuclear nightmare.
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Game Revolution
Some call me an urban legend, the last damn hope for humanity, that kid from Vault 101. Others call me a fuckin' commie. And I'm fine with that, as long as I don't hear them say it with their jaw attached.
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GameSpy
When Fallout 3 was announced in 2004, not everyone was happy to hear that Bethesda would be the development studio to bring the Wasteland to life.
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1UP
Fallout 3 begins with your character's literal birth and ends with...well, that's up to you. It might never end, should you opt to hit the (metaphorical) pause button on the role-playing game's main quest.
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VideoGamer
The past 10 days have been very busy for me. I've broken into countless military bases, taken vast quantities of drugs, and have shot several hundred people in the head. I've stolen the Declaration of Independence. I've moonlighted as a contract killer.
...read the complete Fallout 3 review at VideoGamer
Hardcore Gamer Magazine
Rating: Mature
While gamers were spending hours upon hours exploring Oblivion, Bethesda was hard at work creating a game just as massive.
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YouGamers
Fallout and Fallout 2 are considered timeless classics, so when Bethesda announced that they were working on Fallout 3, the fanboys were understandably estatic and worried at the same time.
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GameSpot
A lot of games make a big deal out of player choice, but few in recent memory offer so many intricate, meaningful ways of approaching any given situation.
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GameDaily
While the threat of atomic annihilation disappeared during the Reagan Era, Fallout 3 rekindles that fear by inserting gamers into a post-nuclear war version of Washington, DC.
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