Fallout: New Vegas has officially been announced as coming Fall 2010 to Games for Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 this morning. Bethesda also released a new teaser trailer for the game that shows just enough to have us thinking, “more Fallout.” I spent a lot of time with Fallout 3 and I will admit that the official word the game is coming this Fall has me feeling a little excited. We don’t have a lot of details regarding Fallout: New Vegas yet, but Bethesda provides the following description of [Read More]

If you haven’t purchased any of the additional episodes that have been released for Fallout 3, the Broken Steel expansion is the best place to start. There have been a lot of positive changes and updates to the core Fallout 3 game included in this release. Most notable is a change to the ending of the game. Fallout 3 did so many things right but the ending was one of the more anti-climatic endings of a game this generation. Ending the game actually means, ending the game. If players complete [Read More]

Fallout 3’s downloadable content has been very successful. Each package has kept the spotlight pointed in Bethesdas direction well after the launch of the game in 2008.  Keeping gamers focus on a single title for all these months is a big accomplishment, so why are they stopping at five? Director Todd Howard told Kotaku, “I think we’ve put enough content out there for this game.  We knew we wanted to do three initially and we’ll see where that goes. I kind of had in my mind that the upper limit [Read More]

Thrust into the wasteland as the “Lone Wander from Vault 101” and ending up “The Last, Best Hope for Humanity” was a long, and at times, trying journey. If you missed the first two parts of my review you can check them out here and here. Following your fathers trail requires a lot of back and forth through the wastelands and they are anything but safe. Constantly having to defend yourself against on coming attacks from Raiders, Super Mutants, Feral Ghouls, Mole Rats, Vicious Dogs, Deathclaws, Mercs, and more, isn’t [Read More]

I received a couple emails asking me how I completed the Nuka-Cola challenge achievement in Fallout 3. The Nuka-Cola Challenge is a side quest in Fallout 3 that requires collecting 30 Nuka-Cola Quantum drinks and delivering them to one of two characters living in Girdershade. When you locate Girdershade, underneath the raised highway on the east side of the map, you will meet Sierra Petrovita. She lives in a small shack with a neon Nuka-Cola sign hanging near the door. Sierra will ask if you would like to take [Read More]

If you get a charge out of Fallout 3 but missed the first two games in the series its not too late to go back and check them out. Good Old Games has both Fallout and Fallout 2 available via download for $5.99 each. This small price tag will get you a DRM free copy of the game that has been patched to the latest official version. Unlike other digital download services you don’t just get a license to play the game. Buying games at GOG.com means you actually purchase [Read More]

Picking up where Part 1 (check it out here) of my Fallout 3 review left off, you are rising out of the vault and into the wastelands. After your fathers unexpected exit from Vault 101, you forge into the unknown in hopes of reuniting with him on the outside. As you escape the fallout shelter with the assistance of your childhood friend Amata, the overseers daughter, you gaze across the ruined landscape of the D.C. Area for the first time. Looking over the horizon for the first time, its obvious [Read More]

Having trouble finding those last couple Vault Boy Bobbleheads in Fallout 3? Lucky for you, I made a list of each Bobblehead and its location as I found them. The easiest way to find each of these locations is to use the Explorer perk that becomes available when you reach Level 20. This perk will reveal all locations on your map whether you have discovered them or not. If any locations haven’t been discovered you still wont be able to fast travel to them, but at least you will know [Read More]

With over a hundred real-time hours logged in the Bethesda’s post apocalyptic wasteland that is Fallout 3, I still can’t get enough. Having completed the main quest just shy of ninety seven hours I wanted to share my thoughts on the game. Not knowing how to write about a game of this magnitude I decided to break up my “review” of the game into parts, allowing me to focus in on each area I wanted to comment on. In this post I am focusing on the starting stage of the [Read More]