Fallout 3 - PlayStation 3 Game of the Year Edition

I have spent hundreds of hours playing this game across Xbox 360 and PC. So once I finally bought a PS3. I had to get a copy of this game for it. One of my favorite things about this game is the aesthetic style choice. It takes place in a post apocalyptic America over 200 years in the future. However, the style of the infrastructure, general technology, and social practices are as if the world has been perpetually stuck in the 50's. At the time of the franchise's original release (Fallout) this was a rather unique style choice. Imagine walking around a world were you can find a vintage looking single slot toaster and a laser pistol in the same room. That is hilariously distinct to this franchise. A wonderful RPG experience. Especially if you enjoy exploring futuristic large scale open worlds. As far as the physical copy of the game. It arrived looking brand new and functions flawlessly. I highly recommend this game.

Great classic game

Loved the game, wished that I could've played the game sooner. I enjoyed playing the game constantly.

I could not believe how much fun this game was. I was hunting for a PS3 game and was familiar with Fallout from the Amazon Prime series and thought I'd give it a try. I love the ability to explore all corners of a world as well as the large numbers of quests. I'm a shoot-and-loot player always hunting for more weapons, apparel, caps, you name it. I'm extremely late coming to the franchise, so there isn't much I could tell anyone that hasn't already been covered, but I highly recommend it if you favor the explore and kill style of game. And the VATS aim-and-shoot feature is fantastic. The only critique is that the makers shoved a lot of data onto the game disc, and it is noticeable in the occasional game freezes and audio-skips, but it wasn't enough to detract from gameplay.

Fallout was my introduction to the Role-Playing genre! I loved the customization of the character, and journeying across the vast wasteland for one single purpose...to find you father. But you have to survive the Raiders, the zombified Feral Ghouls, the Super Mutants, and every other danger of the waste first. Bethesda out did themselves on this one. I bought the Game of the Year Edition of Fallout 3, because like I said in my review of Fallout New Vegas Ultimate edition, I dont have internet thats good enough to go on the Playstation store, and buy them all individually. So I got the next best thing...a disc with the base game and all of the DLC in it! Now, because I never played the DLC, I've only completed 2.5 out of the 5 dlc, but i'll do my best to tell you. 1. The Capitol Wasteland is vast (disregarding the other maps added by dlc) in its own right. Based in post-apocalyptic Washington D.C., its a huge map, with alot of ground to cover! There are two major factions...the Brotherhood of Steel, who are steel aromer clad Crusaders who fight the Super Mutant menace. And then theres the Enclave, who are basically post apocalyptic Nazi's. No spoilers...but most of the story greatly revolves around the conflict between the two factions. 2. The dlc add a bunch of new areas to explore, like Pittsburgh in the Pitt, the virtual training sim of Alaska, the swamps of Maine in Point Lookout, a f***ing Alien ship! Yeah...alot of places. 3. There is a plethora of armor and weapons in the game alone, and even more added by the dlc (like the bada** Auto Saw, and the Gauss Rifle.) The signature armor of the Fallout universe is on the cover. Power Armor is some of the best heavy armor you can find. There are several variants, theres the Brotherhoods armor, the Enclaves armors (not only one set, but they also have Tesla armor.) Some of the best armor in the game. My favorite is the T51-d power armor that you get from Operation: Anchorage DLC, its prewar power armor, thats fully intact. 4. With Broken Steel, the story of the Lone Wanderer from Vault 101 (as said by Three-Dog), basically comes full circle, as the war with the Enclave has officially begun. Continuing from above, alot of weapons were already in the game, but now...theres Hellfire Armor...its Jet black, and is carried by the Elites of the Enclave...always keep a set for yourself, because its some awesome armor. I seriously don't know what else I could tell you...other than you should buy this game! I said it once and I'll say it again....Bethesda outdid themselves..... 10/10 baby! :D

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I was very hesitant to buy this due to the negative reviews and I remember being terribly frustrated with all the bugs and glitches while playing Morrowind on my old Xbox. When I first bought the regular edition of Fallout 3, I had no idea I'd enjoy it as much as I would. I knew I just had to play the add-ons somehow, so I took the risk and bought the GOTY version, despite the negativity surrounding it. I'm glad I took the chance. The fun this game has been has so far outweighed any irritation from its problems, and I'm pretty much finished with it. As for the freezing, glitches and bugs, to be honest, I haven't had a whole lot of problems. My game does tend to "freeze" during VATS sometimes, especially outside in the Wasteland, but it doesn't stay frozen. I just have to wait a few seconds. It does the same thing while simply walking around, too. Ironically, during the bottlecap exploitation, where you buy and re-sell the same item to a trader over and over again, in order to take all their caps, has actually been better on the GOTY version. My game used to freeze all the time with the regular version while doing that. Only once did my game actually freeze permanently and I had to restart my PS3, and that was using VATS outside in the Wastes. Irritating, yes, but in my case, rare. I have noticed that some of the NPCs act a bit more bizarrely than I'm used to, like Senora Cruz running outside in the middle of a fight between radscorpions and sentry bots. Never had that happen before. So there are problems, but nothing that has really given me a headache or make me want to throw my controller down in frustration. I really have no idea why others are having so many problems with the GOTY version, but I do have an older 80gb PS3 and my hard-drive is pretty clean, I don't know if any of that would matter or not. I also made a point of buying this game brand new, just in case the older shipments had something wrong with them that Bethesda won't own up to. In the end, for me personally and in my individual experience, this game has been significantly more good than bad. I wish everyone else had better luck with it.

I never owned fallout before the GOTY, and as of right now, I havent experienced the trouble that others are reporting. I only have about 2 maybe 3 hours of gameplay in right now, so it may be too early to tell. I wonder how big the hard drives are for those having trouble. The game is wonderful, I really cant find any complaints with it. Give me a few more weeks and I will come back and do an update. UPDATE-----------------------------------------------------29 OCT 09 Ok. The game does freeze up, but I think I found out why. 1. sometimes I play while I'm connected to teh playstation network and in chat it will freeze if I try to send a message or something. But that is really not the game itself. 2. I found myself playing for quite awhile the other day. Lets say almost 9 hours straight. The game actually froze up on me and I cut it off, granted I played for 9 hours straight, (a lot of wasted time I know). It has frozen slightly a few times but this game is huge. I have not experienced anything like others are saying but as I keep playin I will keep yall updated. Also, I think I'm gonna delete some of the demos I have so I can have more room on my HDD. I still give it 5 stars, because this game is excellent. UPDATE-----------------------------------------------------21 DEC 09 Ok. I had to tke a star away because of the freezing problems. Yes it does freeze, and there are frame rate issues. I am doing point look out atm and it seems when I fast travel to certian areas there are frame rate issues. I have found out one thing worked for sure, and another thing that kinda helped it. 1st the thing that helped. When ever things slowed down especially from a fast travel I "outran" the lag. Meaning I kept moving to a different area and that cleared it up a bit. 2nd thing that worked was I just paused quickly before it froze and quit the game. Then reloaded. It saved a lot more time then trying to play through watching it freeze then having to reset. Last thing. You dont have to hard reset the game for it to stop. I found that resetting this way gives me a msg of not turing off the PS3 correctly. What I have been doing instead is ejecting then reinserting the game. This causes the PS3 to reset and no error msg. Anyway Fallout 3 is still one of the best games I have played. I does have some issues but to those who are interested in this game, it is well worth it. You will have to do some tricks with it later, but if you can stand that then you will enjoy this game.

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Bought this game for my father, he loves it and he's been on and off playing it ever since he dug out my old PS3 from storage. It's Fallout, a standard Bethesda title so you have to take the bugs and minor jankiness as it comes otherwise this might not be a game you enjoy.

Very old game. It's been a long time since the game has been released, but I loved Fallout New Vegas (the sequel to Fallout 3) and decided to give this one a try. Combat seems a little... clunky? Difficult to aim, frame rate drops, glitches. That might be because my PS3 is very old. Still a great game. Not quiet as good as Fallout New Vegas, but a lot better than Fallout 4 (PS4 game). Definitely worth playing if you like games for the story. Combat is easy to get used to and the dialogues are pretty well made. Definitely would recommend to other gamers, especially those who are new to the Fallout series. Be sure to take a look at Fallout New Vegas as well, it's my personal favourite of the entire series