Fallout
3
The world of Fallout
is the United States after a nuclear attack devastates the country and
turns most of it into a flat, radioactive wasteland. To stay safe from
the attack, many humans locked themselves in huge, underground vaults
and lived there in relative safety. Others survive on the surface, and
attempt to make lives for themselves in the rubble of what used to be
the United States. Additionally, the game has a retro-futuristic tone to
it that is one of its primary sources of humor.
The game opens with your character being born, and there's a prologue
in place that both serves as the character creation tools and a brief
introduction to the game's world and controls. It's here that you set
your stats, tag a few character skills as primary, and design the look
of your character. You also get to know your father over the course of
this sequence, which ends with him mysteriously escaping the vault, a
move that has the Overseer of the vault hunting you down. So you escape
the vault to avoid the Overseer's wrath, as well as to start tracking
down your father. Along the way, you'll see how life on the surface
works, follow your father's trail, and get wrapped up in a pile of side
quests.
Fallout 3 won several awards following its showcasing at E3 2007. IGN
gave it the Game of E3 2007 award, and GameSpot gave it the Best
Role-Playing Game of E3 2007 award. Following the game's demonstration
at E3 2008, IGN also gave it Best Overall RPG, Best Overall Console
Game, and Overall Game of the Show for E3 2008. Game Critics Awards
gave the game Best Role-Playing Game and Best of Show for E3 2008 and
GamePro Magazine awarded the game "PC Game of the Year" 2008.After its
release, Fallout 3 won numerous awards from gaming journalists and
websites. At the 2009 Game Developer's Choice Awards, it won overall
Game of the Year along with Best Writing. It was also awarded Game of
the Year by IGN, Games Radar, GameSpy, UGO, Gamasutra and the Golden
Joystick Awards. The game also won Best Xbox
Game from Official Xbox Magazine, GameSpy and IGN, while winning
Best PC Game from GameSpy and both Game Trailers and GameSpot, with the
latter two also awarding it Best RPG. More recently, the UK PC gaming
magazine PC Gamer gave Fallout 3 2nd place on its '100 Best PC games of all
time' list, praising its user-modifications, deep gameplay and overall
polish.
