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War… War never changes.

Apparently post Apocalyptic War does change, in Fallout 3 at least… And trust me, not in a good way.

The first two Fallouts were instant classics, and the few ‘sequels’ following them weren’t too bad, but still followed the Fallout basics, the isometric view, the 50’s music, it was there.

Now “Fallout 3” – I use that name loosely, changes a great deal, it only keeps the general ‘characters’: Pipboys, Stim packs, Super mutants , Vault dwellers, the Brotherhood of Steel, Ron Pearlman, Radscorps (yeah you thought I was going to forget them) those things. Going back to the morbid tone of how a post apocalyptic war should be, instead of the run and gun Tactics/BoS. Those are the good things I still see.


But, Bethesda changed a whole lot more than that.
And so I bring to you, a list of things that irk “the Fallout crowd” in “Fallout 3” with some help from our local Icelander, Mani, or better known to you as 4x0n.

1.)Lack of a character creation sheet.

The character creation sheet has been replaced by “growing up”. What the hell is this? This isn’t Fallout, its like something stolen from Spore. We have to grow up instead? Screw that, let me design my character and start hacking away at giant rats!

2.)First Person View / 3rd person view

What’s the deal? Fallout isn’t a first person shooter, it’s a RPG! And this sure as hell isn’t Resident Evil with the shady 3rd person view! Fallout equals isometric!

3.)Fatboy “Nuclear Catapault”

Am I the only ones who can see how ridiculous this is? Its like saying I’m going to throw a cruise missile at you. You’re shooting rads* out of a cannon, that should kill you, end of story.

4.)Combat System

It isn’t really turn based, its like the KOTOR combat, que up attacks and let it rip. Next thing we know a Jedi is going to do battle with a super mutant. Wee… Then again that does sound kind of cool.

There’s much more to say than this, but I lost my original communication with Mani due to some nasty file corruption (keep your computers neat and tidy children). I’m sure Mani will pop in any second.

Alright, I’ll admit some of the stuff above does sound pretty cool. What most fans like us are saying is that, it doesn’t look like a bad game, it just doesn’t look like a Fallout game. So Bethesda, you can swim in your money all you want, just please don’t pull an EA on us.


Till next time, Rock on with your bad selves.