Fallout 4 Reviews
With an immersive world, open-ended gameplay options, and so much to do, Fallout 4 is well worth the price of entry. It's like a fantastic book or a great TV show or for many, a replacement for the Internet's favourite video streaming site that's not Youtube, completely and utterly addictive. The difference being, how and when it ends is completely up to you. And the chances are, you'll be spending a lot of time in Boston. We know we have and will be in the months to come.
In large doses, all that fighting can be tiresome, but the best thing about Fallout 4 is that it wants you to have something to fight for—more than just a vendetta, or some life-saving MacGuffin, or the player's own bloodthirsty whims. Grizzled, score-settling lone wanderers will feel at home in The Commonwealth, but this world offers something more: a chance to rebuild, to belong to something bigger than yourself and defend it from all comers. The most you can usually hope for is "This place isn't so bad, for a shithole," but at least it's your shithole.
Fallout 4 keeps surprising and delighting me. Few other games have the depth or idiosyncratic character to get me consuming their content this greedily or obsessively. Clearly made by a passionate team, it's my favourite Bethesda game to date, and one of the finest games of the year, warts and all - one whose likely destruction of my already-struggling social life I welcome with open arms.
Sure, there is the typical Fallout aesthetic and the goofy music and that joy of seeing deathclaws rip the occasional NPC to death, but with much of the core roleplaying aspects torn out of the game, it isn't the New Vegas (or even Fallout 3) inspired heir that many hoped it would be. Still, it is fun to engage in, if you don't mind being an early adopter and paying full price for a loot hauling ARPG. If you're fine with that, hit the trigger on the game and spend the next 60 hours killing mutants with missile launchers.
It's extremely difficult to find an experience that at least comes close to what Bethesda offers us with Fallout 4.
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Extraordinarily rich and exciting, Fallout 4 proves to be a product of the highest quality, but this does not change the fact that the evaluation cannot unfortunately be separated from a substantial lack of innovation.
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Fallout is exactly on the edge of becoming a perfect masterpiece. If Bethesda was only a little more careful with the graphic details of the game, no other factor could have caused this monumental work to not get the perfect score.
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To say that Fallout 4 is a big game would be to reduce it to its shallowest values. The valuable lies not in the mere volume of activities it offers or the size of its map, but the striking depth of its mechanics and the masterful form as Bethesda made the world so that the plot was developed organically through characters, details of the environment and actions of the user alike.
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Some minor points mar a pretty great game, with lots of secrets and depth.
A few quibbles with mechanics and bugs can not drown out Bethesda's triumphant return to the end of the world after the last 7 years - their best game ever, and a serious challenger for best game of 2015.
Fallout 4 does one thing so well that you can mostly forgive, if not ignore, its awkward treatment of the player character. Bethesda's team creates maps that are a joy to explore.
There appears to be enough going on in the great Boston commonwealth to keep players questing and exploring for quite a while to come.
The problem with Fallout 4 is not that it doesn't live up to its hype, but that it doesn't live up to the Fallout name
Crafting mods for your equipment is child's play, compared to the fact that Fallout 4 allows you create and manage entire settlements with the junk you find on your travels
Despite weak storytelling, bugs and dated technology, the world of Fallout 4 is a joy to explore, and the new crafting and customization mechanics give you lots of reasons to do so.
The mad science experiments are amazing, although the rest of the DLC is a bit of a let down.
Fallout 4 took a long time to get here. Thankfully it's going to take a long time to finish, too.
In the end, Fallout 4 is essentially Fallout 3 with a few more features and tweaks. That isn't a dig at the game, but that's what most fans of the series will think. The experience is top-notch, as few developers try to pull off something this large and immersive, and fewer still ever do it right. Even with the bugs, Fallout 4 is a highly addictive and fun experience that gamers of all types will enjoy.
Plenty of players and fans are hyped for the release of Fallout 4, but this is the first game of the franchise that I've played. Yes, I'm a Fallout virgin but Fallout 4 has shown me the light.