Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition is a open world, rpg and post-apocalyptic game
developed by Bethesda Game Studios
and published by Bethesda Softworks.
Released on December 17th 2009 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 50,177 reviews of which 40,709 were positive and 9,468 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
Minimum:
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Processor: 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
- Memory: 1 GB (XP)/ 2 GB (Vista)
- Hard disk space: 7 GB
- Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)
- Sound: DirectX®: 9.0c
- Controller support: Xbox 360 controller
- NVIDIA GeForce 200 series, Geforce 9800 series, Geforce 9600 series, Geforce 8800 series, Geforce 8600 series, Geforce 8500 series, Geforce 8400 series, Geforce 7900 series, Geforce 7800 series, Geforce 7600 series, Geforce 7300 series, GeForce 6800 series
- ATI HD 4800 series, HD 4600 series, HD 3800 series, HD 3600 series, HD 3400 series, HD 2900 series, HD 2600 series, HD 2400 series, X1900 series, X1800 series, X1600 series, X1300 series, X850 series
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There's just something about Fallout 3... It's not pretty, it's clunky, and there are like three voice actors total, but, in my opinion, it's still one of the greatest 3D RPGs. The dialogue choices, characters, skills, atmosphere, and exploration made this the staple of what I've considered a proper RPG for more than half of my life now.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
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Alright. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition is done and dusted. I played this many times on console, but this was my first playthrough on PC. And for me, on an unmodded Steam Deck with the current version of Proton, and with no game mods, this ran immaculately. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3224579396 In fact, this may have been one of the best games I've played on the Deck performance wise. Which is crazy to me considering how often the game would freeze stutter and crash when I played it previously (on console). I had one instance of stuttering in Operation: Anchorage during the final push and another instance of stuttering in Mothership Zeta, but beyond that, I literally had zero stability issues and it ran at a consistent 60 FPS on maxed settings with an average of around 25% CPU usage. It took me forever to get around to buying and playing this on Steam due to its widely reported compatibility issues, but thankfully, those were nonexistent for me. The home screen for some reason wasn't gamepad compatible, but everything else was and the default settings were fine. So, with that out of the way, I want to talk a bit about the experience itself. For one, this game still looks great. Does it show its age? Yes and no. Things like character models actually look better than they do in Skyrim and Fallout 4 for some reason. But they don't look modern of course. However, the world itself has aged very well. The audio is pretty legendary, and that will never change I'm sure. The gameplay also holds up to modern games quite well. Gunplay is fun and VATS never disappoints. Early to mid game, I would recommend keeping a Dart Gun on you. It makes fighting things like Deathclaws much easier, especially if you use it to target legs. Once you get the Gauss Rifle though, you won't need the Dart Gun or much else lol. It does great damage AND typically knocks enemies down as well. Nearly game breaking in its OP-ness, but it's also incredibly satisfying. Btw, special weapons aside, Deathclaws are still panic inducing and terrifying lol. They're the fastest, strongest and meanest things in the game, and they have a sixth sense for being able to find you. You could be forgiven if you scream like a child when one leaps at you. Exploring the DC Wasteland is quite memorable, and I went into this playthrough with a clear agenda for what I wanted to do and see outside of the main story. Given how well written a lot of the side quests are, there's a lot of good times to be had. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3227056838 As far as the DLC goes, I'd recommend doing Operation: Anchorage first. It's the easiest, and although it lacks any nods to loot whores, the final payoff includes the other nearly game breaking piece of gear in the game: the Chinese Stealth Armor. Once you acquire that, the world is your oyster. Especially if you've leveled up your stealth. Takes maybe three hours to complete and is basically set up as a corridor shooter. If it weren't for the armor though, I'd probably skip this DLC. The Pitt is probably the most heavily reliant on the morality system and the one with the largest grey area in that regard. The actual setting is cool and does feature the best melee weapon in the game should you be playing that way. You can roll through this in three to four hours, but it can also take longer depending on how thorough you are. Fairly easy overall. Mothership Zeta is the quirkiest DLC. You get abducted by aliens, but you and some other abductees rebel and eventually take over the ship lol. Features some good weapons and some excellent healing/repair items. It's probably the funniest DLC and is moderately challenging. It's also the one that probably takes the longest to complete due to how confusing certain activities can be to complete. I probably spent around six hours here. Point Lookout is the most difficult DLC, is at least partially inspired by Deliverance and Southern Comfort, has some good next tier versions of weapons you've probably been using a lot. It also has some cool story stuff, including an important item for concluding a Cthulhu story arc in the base game, and is also the largest DLC. You can definitely wrap up the quests in four to five hours, but you could also spend ten to fifteen hours running around seeing and looting everything. Broken Steel is an endgame DLC, so once you've finished the main story, this one kicks off. I honestly wrapped this up in about two hours, maybe a bit less. But you could potentially get eight-ish hours out of it depending on how you handle certain situations and how much you explore and loot. Personally, I already had more ammo and healing stuff than I'd ever be able to use, so I took a more direct approach with this DLC. It does tie a bow on the Fallout 3 story, and is definitely worth experiencing. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3229333793 So yeah, I was very glad to get one final playthrough in. It was still awesome in this age of gaming, and while not perfect, each individual aspect of this game holds up immaculately. If you found this review helpful and would be interested in supporting my Curator group, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32549618/]Robilar's Reviews , it would be appreciated. Cheers.
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If the game immediately crashes after clicking "play" in launcher or running Fallout3.exe from steam directory try this (worked for Win 11 and Nvidia gpu). Check in the launcher options which graphic adapter it is using. In my case, cpu integrated graphics was selected by default & nvidia gpu wasn't even displayed. If so, go to Settings > Display > Graphics , under "Custom options for apps" click Browse and navigate to game's folder. The default is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout 3 goty. Then add Fallout3.exe and FalloutLauncherSteam.exe. When they're added, for both of them click Options and set graphic preference to "High Performance". Alternatively, this can also be done from Nvidia Control Panel. Click Manage 3D settings, then Program settings tab, select fallout3 from the list and choose "High performance Nvidia processor".
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Amazing game, but wouldn't recommend buying it alone. For the best experience, get this and New Vegas Ultimate Edition and then install the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. This will allow you to experience everything this game has to offer but on an updated version of the same engine. Trust me, it's worth it.
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Developer
Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher
Bethesda Softworks
Release
17 Dec 2009
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