Product Description

Vault 101 - Jewel of the Wastes. For 200 years, Vault 101 has faithfully served the surviving residents of Washington DC and its environs, now known as the Capital Wasteland. Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Giant Insects, Raiders, Slavers, and yes, even Super Mutants are all no match for superior Vault-Tec engineering. Yet one fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the only home you've ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth.

• Includes Fallout 3 and five expansion packs: Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta.
• 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 SPECIAL: Vault-Tec engineers bring you the latest in human ability simulation - the SPECIAL Character System! Utilising new breakthroughs in points-based ability representation, SPECIAL affords unlimited customisation of your character. Also included are dozens of unique skills and perks to choose from, each with a dazzling variety of effects!
• 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 civilised 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Bethesda
• Released on: 2009-10-16
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .31 pounds

Customer Reviews

Immense Value for Money
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

Glorious Fallout
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!

A casual gamers opinion
I should just start by saying that I'm only a casual gamer and have only recently bought a PS3 after owning a PS2 which has largely been gathering dust for the last year, so rather than completely dissing the game I'm just trying to write a review for someone in a similar position.

The problem is it's not a game for casual gamers like myself I played it for a good 3-4 hours and didn't really feel I'd dented it, crucially as well however I just didn't find it entertaining and didn't feel any compulsion to spend any more time on it. Having just bought a PS3 the other games I've played on that platform are Little Big Planet and CoD Modern Warfare 2 both of which completely blew me away. I (naively) thought Fallout 3 would be like a CoD but with more level ups. However it's not, it's an RPG through and through with lots of conversations to be had and lots of items to pick up and abilities and skills to upgrade. So if you're not into RPGs beyond a basic Level Up type mechanism then avoid.

Graphically it didn't really do it for me either, they're good but whereas something like Modern Warfare 2 made me think wow I'm so glad I bought a PS3 (and I must buy a HDTV when I've saved the money) something about the graphics for Fallout 3 just felt like games I'd played in the past albeit slightly better. The scenery is pretty well done but the characters are a bit few and far between and not very well animated (at least compared to something like COD MW2).

So I'm sure it's a huge game and if you're into RPGs you'll love it but if you're not prepared to stick the hours in avoid. Which is probably a bit mean, marking an RPG down for being too RPGy but there you go.