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  • Summary: As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home.
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  1. Positive: 30 out of 38
  2. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. Nov 23, 2015
    100
    The graphics won’t blow you away, the side quests and scale of the game will.
  2. Nov 9, 2015
    95
    The world, exploration, crafting, atmosphere, and story of Fallout 4 are all key parts of this hugely successful sandbox role-playing game. Great new reasons to obsessively gather and hoard relics of happier times, strong companions, and sympathetic villains driving tough decisions make it an adventure I’ll definitely replay and revisit
  3. Nov 10, 2015
    90
    Unsurprisingly, Fallout 4 is closer to Fallout 3 than it is to the former episodes. And it comes with all the qualities and problems we already know. But Fallout 4 belongs to this hypnotizing kind of games that you should not miss if you love Western RPGs.
  4. Nov 9, 2015
    85
    It really does feel like Fallout 3 with slightly nicer graphics and a few mods (like “homebase customization”) thrown in, and while Fallout 4 has everything that made the last game great it has all the weaknesses too, like a terrible inventory menu, stiff character models, interior locations requiring loading screens, and more. Fallout 4 is an amazing game that I doubt anyone will be disappointed by, but it’s not unique. And I still prefer New Vegas.
  5. Dec 8, 2015
    80
    After 200 years in cryostasis you will find everything in ruins, beasts and monsters (human and nonhuman alike) run amok and there are more weapons than in a Michael Bay movie. In short it is a vivid world to explore in which no one can hold a decent dialogue.
  6. Nov 9, 2015
    80
    The fact that it's heavier on combat than stats is sure to annoy RPG classicists, but the fact that the combat is fantastic helps a lot. So, too, does the intriguing world, the excellent characters, the hidden secrets, and the difficult decisions.
  7. Nov 19, 2015
    60
    Bethesda has laid solid and at times spectacular groundwork for an awesome game. I look forward to another developer building on it.

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  1. Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Fallout 4 ended up being way more polished than I expected, I'm kind of blow away by how detailed some of the graphics are. It looksFallout 4 ended up being way more polished than I expected, I'm kind of blow away by how detailed some of the graphics are. It looks fantastic.

    -For the first time in a Bethesda game you can create a Skinny, Muscular, or Fat character.
    -The animations are really slick, the best I've seen from Bethesda so far.
    -The gunplay feels nice and tight, and you now have the option to melee attack with firearms.
    -There's tons of crafting in the game from cooking to chemistry to upgrading gear to building.
    -Different armor is available for each limb, it's not just bodysuits like in Fallout 3.
    -The perk chart is well done and perks have requirements before they can be levelled up.
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  2. Jun 9, 2021
    10
    10/10/10/10/10 Stars!!!!!!!!!!!! Top 10 Best of the Best millitary special ops game. This Game has 99999999999999 trillion Realistic10/10/10/10/10 Stars!!!!!!!!!!!! Top 10 Best of the Best millitary special ops game. This Game has 99999999999999 trillion Realistic resolution open world military game in the Whole universe!!!!!!!!! Anyone can play this game Anyone!!!!!!!!!! all ages 10/10/10/10/10 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ratings. There are more variety of stuffs and more newer rework to characters and weapons to choose from. Also more newer events to the game Fallout 4. Also the Top 10 Best game to play with friends, 10/10/10/10 Stars!!!!!!!!!! The best game of the best game of the year!!!!! Thumps up Expand
  3. Dec 1, 2015
    8
    So Metacritic ate my last review so I will keep this one simple. Yes I reccomend this game and I rate it a 8 (7.9 rounded up) as it still hasSo Metacritic ate my last review so I will keep this one simple. Yes I reccomend this game and I rate it a 8 (7.9 rounded up) as it still has it's flaws, here are the points I am judging it by.

    Pro's (8/10)
    - Graphics are good for the engine and they are not too demanding even on mh GT 630 2 GB DDR3 card at a modified Ultra.
    - Storyline while spaced out is decent, and there is plenty to explore and discover as well as a lot of side quests.
    - Crafting system and settlement building system are great additions, and I think they nabbed some of the people who worked on New Vegas for the crafting system.
    - Interactions are more human and the animations are far better than previous games.
    - Power armor, it works so much better and feels much more realistic than before.
    - Weapon and armor variety, and armor system.
    - Map, size is nice and locations are really well placed.
    - Gunplay, much improved and more intuitive.
    - AI enemy tactics, they are smarter and more adaptive than previous games.
    - Cleanest release on my end, I have run into very few major bugs and most of them are minor and not game breaking. Plus no major CTD issues too, unlike 3 and NV which CTD randomly on me without warning even after mod based fixes.

    Now for the negative points (2/10)
    - The odd bug that gets in the way but nothing too serious, except for one quest involving MacCready where he will not move.
    - Game UI in some places is clunky, especially in settlement building mode
    - A lot of troubles assigning settlers to places in settlement mode, again the clunky settlement UI
    - Horrible companion AI, can they please STOP blocking doorways and getting under foot!
    - Too addicting and taking up too much of my time! KIDDING, this is not a real con this is a joke one, dang you Fallcrack!

    Graphics: 8/10
    Gameplay: 10/10
    Companions: 6/10
    UI: 7/10
    Funfactor: 10/10
    Replayability: 9/10
    Music/Radio: 9/10
    Challenge: 10/10

    So in the end I give this game 8/10 and it could use some UI streamlining in places, and an improvement to companion AI, as well as some bug fixes but overall this is one of the least buggy and glitchy initial releases by Bethesda.
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  4. Apr 8, 2016
    5
    Let me start by saying - shame on all the internet trolls that plague this site and give games bad reviews without ever owning or playing theLet me start by saying - shame on all the internet trolls that plague this site and give games bad reviews without ever owning or playing the game. Seriously, get a life.

    I also do not agree with all the 0's and hateful comments from players who supposedly own the game. Ratings are used for comparative purposes, and to give a game a zero rating is to imply it's the worst game you've ever played - which frankly when said about a Fallout title is just stupid.

    That being said I will say that I was giddy with anticipation when this game was announced and couldn't wait for the day it came out. Even getting into it, I really liked it. Sure I immediately felt that it was perhaps not as grand as advertised, but still pretty ambitious. So I started exploring, gearing, building, scrapping, all the good stuff Fallout offered. For a time it was fun. I even went out and bought a brand new graphics card and a 2k gsync monitor to enjoy the game better. But then all of a sudden I lost interest, not sure how or why, though I do have my suspicions now that I think about it. Here's what I think went wrong
    1. The game - quickly I realized that this was a Fallout 3 do-over. Not to insult the game but even F3 was a bit hollow for me. Perhaps because each game tries to remake F1 and F2 as opposed to doing something different. Yes the locations are new, but the progression feels weird and well, the shiny factor gets quickly lost when you know what the next upgrade will be (pistol, smg, shotgun, laser pistol, plasma rifle, etc., you get the jist). So like someone else wrote, it was an odd feeling of de-ja vu, but not in a good way. The other thing that failed to captivate me was the story. It felt incohesive and rather bland. I get that Bethesda tried to draw some powerful emotions with the start of the game - the baby being taken, the parent shot (sorry spoilers but it's been out for a while). As a new parent that struck a cord with me. But then it was quickly forgotten and when it came up again I found myself telling my character - guess what, you've been frozen, your kid is probably an old man, get over it and move on. Somehow these 2 parts of the premise really clashed for me (frozen for 200 years and emerging into a completely different world, and oh-noes my baby is kidnapped).
    2. The mods - so with all the initial hype that followed the release of F4, quickly news spread about the community mods for the game. One thing led to another and quickly I found myself with a couple of inocent enough mods (weather, texture, etc) and then boom - unlimited power armor mod and max SPECIAL exploit. I could've resisted, but the temptation was too great. Next thing I know I'm a super badass babe (ditched my guy after the newly discovered exploit) pew-pewing my way through anything in sight. Deathclaw, whaat - 2 shotgun blasts to da face and bye bye. You get the gist. What I had inadvertently done is killed the fun of combat. So then what was left was exploration and story, and guess what we're back at problem #1. My own fault though for cheating in the game - back in Doom 2 days I promised myself to never cheat, hack or otherwise try to manipulate game mechanics because it just strips away all the fun of trying to survive, beating the odds, being "good". So, lesson learned.

    When all is said and done, I keep thinking of going back and finishing Fallout 4 but I just can't prioritize it high enough with the limited amount of time I have to play these days. And if I do, can I really live without my power armor and max special? Probably not, now that I have a taste for it.

    So what's the bottom line here. Perhaps it's that Bethesda tried too hard to capitalize on a cult franchise by giving the fans what they think they would want - an open world sandbox, flying limbs and full mod capability. Perhaps it's that they keep trying to recapture the magic of F1 and especially F2, but let's face it - you can't discover the moon twice, once you've discovered it you know it's there. So either build a moon base or go find another moon (like Phobos - hint, hint)

    Anyway, a great game that I really want to give a 10/10 and I would if I never played F1,2,3 and NV.
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  5. Nov 12, 2015
    3
    It was a mistake to let Bethesda handle this franchise. They don't understand what a postapo game should look like. This game looks like a FPSIt was a mistake to let Bethesda handle this franchise. They don't understand what a postapo game should look like. This game looks like a FPS game with more dialogues, has an unbalanced loot system, 80% of your enemies are raiders and ghouls, the story is pretty average tbh and tons of other things gone wrong, like for example, F4 still has the same bugs that were present in Oblivion, showing us that Bethesda can't patch 9-year old bugs in their engine. The UI is just copy-pasted from the console version and looks awful. The graphics are pretty mediocre as well, remove some effects and it will look worse than in F3. The SPECIAL and Perks systems were literally DESTROYED in this game - they just tried to make a Skyrim in a postapo world. And really Bethesda, you give us only two radios? And one with classical music - what's up with that? No references from F1/F2/FNV in F4. The game doesn't support 5:4, 4:3, 21:9 monitors, which is pretty bad. The game is overall also absurdly easy to play, there are no challenges even at hardest difficulty, regardless of your stats.

    3/10, would not bang.
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  6. Nov 15, 2015
    1
    Fallout 4 sucks, Witcher 3 is better BGS fails and failed to deliver. That dialogue wheel is terrible and my god is it bad to see. I feel soFallout 4 sucks, Witcher 3 is better BGS fails and failed to deliver. That dialogue wheel is terrible and my god is it bad to see. I feel so bummed I spent $60 BGS should be ashamed they ruined a good franchise and Fallout 4 lacks RPG elements. Witcher 3 will be my chosen game for GOTY, I will never buy games again from Beth. Lets not forget no Hardcore Mode suck too.

    This game is an abomination of every other Fallout games, even Fallout 3 is better than 4.

    Also Pete Hines should be ashamed for not letting all of Fallout 4's files be included on the disk for the PC. Screw Steams download some people don't have reliable internet.
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  7. Feb 4, 2020
    0
    Это не фоллаут а хз что. Кто играл в первый и второй понимает сколько всяких крутых возможностей беседка слила. Вместо крутого сюжета,Это не фоллаут а хз что. Кто играл в первый и второй понимает сколько всяких крутых возможностей беседка слила. Вместо крутого сюжета, интересных квестов и вариативности. Они сделали тупую гриндилку с унылыми квестами сходи/принеси/убей Expand

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