If you haven’t purchased any of the addition 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 Fallout 3 and want continue exploring the wastelands and completing side quests they are forced to revert to a previous save file to do so. Downloading Broken Steel will allow you to complete the main story and continue exploring the wastelands filling those gaps in your achievement list.

Picking up were 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 the world has been destroyed. There are no signs of life, no color, nothing but ruins. As drab and depressing as that sounds the game is ascetically beautiful. The remains of buildings and technology scattered throughout the world looks reminiscent of a 1950’s era Sci-Fi movie. The game does a great job of making you feel alone, to the point that wandering the landscape creates an eery feeling.

Having trouble getting The Bigger They Are… achievement in Fallout 3? This one is earned by killing the all Super Mutant Behemoths in the game. There are five of these monsters and they can be found at the locations listed below. Good luck!

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 game, life in Vault 101. For anyone unfamiliar with the Fallout 3 universe, the story takes place in a post apocalyptic version of the Washington DC area. In the year 2077, a war broke out leaving the United States, and possibly the world, nothing more than a dark, desolate, radiated wasteland. The war did not completely destroy all of mankind and those left behind are struggling to survive in the ruins of what was once the great American nation. The story of Fallout 3 takes place roughly 200 years after the bombing occurred.