The
story is fairly simple, you are a resident of vault 13 and the overseer of this
vault has placed you in charge of going out in to the world and recovering a
water chip to replace the broken one. You are given about 5 months to complete
this task before the vault runs out of water and everyone in it dies or has to
evacuate. I do question the wisdom of putting the fate of your entire people in
the hands of one person armed with a handgun and a knife, but hey what do I
know?
Where
Fallout really shines is its setting, every town is different with their own
government, from the police state L.A. Boneyard, the small socialist town of
Shady Sands, or Junk Town where two rival business men fight each other for
control of the town. Mixed in to the world are many humorous references to TV
and movies. Encountering the Tardus, of Doctor Who fame, and a peasant running
around screaming “Let's go play Global-Thermal Nuclear War” gave the
game character and appealed to the inner nerd in me.
As much
as I liked Fallout a few things bothered me. The reputation system does not
prove to have as much effect as I would have liked on the game. I saw no
benefit to going evil, going good prevents bounty hunters from coming after you
and allows for the easiest way to obtain power armor. Other than that, in my
game the reputation system did little else. The music can best be described as
minimalistic, a very low humming for most of the game, I felt like the game
could have improved the most in that category. The interface can also use some
work, with no “pick up al loot” button and the game limiting you to moving 999
caps at one time in transactions.
There’s much to the game that I’m just going to list my 5
favorite things about Fallout:
1.
Going from a worthless bitch to a wasteland bad
ass. When you start the game, expect to miss shots, and I mean A LOT. By the
end of the game however, being able to hit guys from across the room after
being so useless is such a great feeling.
2.
Death Scenes: They are gruesome to say the
least, get ready for some yummy sprite gibs
3.
The game is difficult, for those who have played
Fallout 3 a big complaint was that after the first few levels you’d get so
powerful that not even a death claw was a challenge for you and your assault rifle.
This is not the case in Fallout, even after you get all your upgrades and gear,
stronger enemies keep the game a challenge all the way through.
4.
Different play styles, if you want to go through
the game killing everyone go ahead. But there are ways in this game using
stealth, speech, hacking or a combination to cleverly solve all your problems.
Even the final boss can be convinced to stop just by talking to him. And for
those who get lonely, there are a multitude of companions to choose from.
5.
It respects the intelligence of the player.
Fallout 3 held the players hand throughout most of the start of the game, it’s
very slow and it’s a pain to do multiply playthroughs if you forget to save at
the end of the tutorial. Fallout on the hand tells you to get the chip, gives
you a weapon and says “Go forth and adventure!!” I like that.
If you want to modernize Fallout a bit, the FIXT mod
compilation is excellent and easy to install
This mod features widescreen support and fixes some of the bugs that the devs never fixed
The best place to buy Fallout is Gog.com where you can get
it DRM free
It is also available on steam
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