The story is so well developed in this game you'll wonder why you've been playing mindless shooting games like "Quake." When you start the game you'll be treated to with one of the most chilling, well-written introductions a game has ever been blessed with.
if you want to play old school Fallout - play this one, Fallout 1, and if you liked it - play something like Fallout New Vegas after. skip Fallout 2 -for all "bigger" things none is better original, and most is simply worst. Fallout 2 vs Fallout 1 is like F3 vs FNV: - F1 and FNV are good rpgs, good stories and storytelling, while F2 and F3 - dorky downgrades of Post-apocalypses, with idiotic quests, stories and strained out-of-places attempts of humor.
This top-down RPG is without a doubt the best PC RPG we have played in years. That's not an exaggeration. Years. I can't think of another game that comes even close to Fallout's excellent character generation and skill system, great story, and classy delivery.
The game play is smooth, using action points for movement and combat and the inventory system is easily managed. Fallout has one of the best character development systems of any computerized role-playing game and the graphics and story make for an excellent gaming experience.
The story is great, and the characters are amazing, same with the antagonist. I liked the time limit; it made the game challenging in a good way. Some of the mechanics did Feel a bit outdated, but I can not hold that towards it. It's a fun game, and I liked it.
Gameplay: UI is not very intuitive, but with some help from google you will be able to figure the controls out. Solution to the quests is sometimes pretty random. Be prepared to google step by step guides espesially in the end. The combat has some good parts but overall kinda meh. All weapons work exactly the same so there is no point playing anything else than burst assault rifle and plasma rifle. Be prepared to save before any encounter, sometimes a random enemy deals a critical hit for double your max hp. You can't do anything about it, just load your safe and beg for better rng. If you don't care about side quests / story / lore then this is not the game for you. 3 / 5
Visuals: Very outdated to a point where the low resolution is problematic to the actual gameplay. You can't see items on the ground unless you move cursor over them (and good luck cuz they are like 5 pixels wide). From artistic point it fits very well. 1.5 / 2.5
Story: Actually the strongest point of the game. Although this game has only one ending, the choices you make slightly shift it (so it's different shades of the same ending). 2.5 / 2.5
Miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss and **** MISS! This game would be fun if my character wouldn't miss every single shot! It just makes every encounter very boring and of course enemies do critical SHOT wow! TRICK SHOT OOOOO! shots to me so just because of that I give this game 5/10. Bad game.
This classic favourite of many RPG players is rife with flaws that, obviously, most people don't care for, but this self-proclaimed discerning veteran will give you a tour of some major ones.
At first, you'll discover a good, simple character creation process with promises of variety. Equally good is the fact that random encounters are not necessarily hostile. You will, however, spend hours and hours killing rats.
Then the horror: the game runs on a timer. Indeed, Fallout is the Anti-Grail of the exploring gamer. No, just no.
Graphics are lacking. Not ugly or anything, but the isometric view is opaque; walls block you view, hiding creatures and objects. And the cursor itself is unpleasant to play with.
Finally, to keep it short, here is a little example showing how variety was expected but not delivered: In 2 days of playing, I managed to make use of 3 skills, 2 of which being combat skills. There was nothing to lockpick, nothing to learn with the Sciences skill, nothing to repair... You get the idea.
Now go and make up your own opinion, but don't expect the perfection promised by all these 10/10 ratings.
SummarySet in the aftermath of a world-wide nuclear war, Fallout will challenge you to survive in an unknown and dangerous world. You will take the role of a Vault-dweller, a person who has grown up in a secluded, underground survival Vault. Circumstances arise that force you to go Outside -- to a strange world 80 years after the end of the mod...