 Game Review: Fallout 3
Alex Kayle
Post-apocalyptic world.
What would the future look like if Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had won World War II, which would eventually have led to another war and a catastrophic nuclear meltdown of the planet?
This is the kind of what-if scenario Fallout 3 unveils to players, throwing them into the desolate post-nuclear world that seems frozen in time within the early 1950s.
We’ve all played typical post-apocalyptic games before, but what makes Fallout 3 different is the raw energy, unique storyline and immersive environment that it gives us.
The bleak and twisted role-playing game created by Bethesda Game Studios, the famed developer of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, takes place 36 years after the setting of Fallout 2, and 200 years after the World War III nuclear apocalypse.
 The game begins with the player literally growing up from a baby to an adult in the nuclear fallout shelter: Vault 101. The player’s father mysteriously disappears, which unravels a turn of events and the player sets off out of the vault journeying into the ruins of Washington DC, now known as the Capital Wasteland. He then comes across sordid Megaton City, a squalid settlement filled with the most deplorable characters.
The game reminded me of a bizarre mix between Mad Max Thunderdome and Pleasantville, as it featured 1950s cheerful pop culture combined with a darker, futuristic undertone to it. The game is so vast and opens so many choices to the gamer, that the player can virtually choose limitless ways how to play the game.
I decided to replay the game after the announcement of its sequel, Fallout New Vegas, which is planned for release later this year on Windows PC, Xbox360 and PlayStation 3.
The game provides endless hours of traversing a desolate landscape shooting radioactive mutated zombies and completing hundreds of quests along the way.
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