Fallout 3 - PC Game of the Year Edition

I originally bought Fallout 3 back in 2008, and played it about 3/4ths of the way through. I loved it, but it's a huge game, and it's hard to find enough time to finish a game like this if you explore every possible area and do every side quest as I like to do.Fast forward to 2011. While looking for a new game for my PC, I saw the Game of the Year Edition (GOTYE), and noticed that it included the five add-on packs for the game, priced for under twenty dollars here on Amazon. If memory serves me correct, the add -on packs to the game were each around twenty dollars when first released. So, it was cheaper for me to buy this GOTYE than to try and get all of the add-ons.If you've played either Fallout 1 or 2, Fallout 3 is very much the same, and I mean that in a good way, even though it's produced by a different company (Bethesda rather than Interplay). It's added new tweaks and improvements, but these are more evolutionary rather than revolutionary, and again, that's a good thing because if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Basically, this is a single player game where you are a vault-dweller in a post nuclear apocalyptic world, and after your father leaves the vault, you follow after him. I won't say any more about the plot, but it grows tremendously from there. Along the way, you can help or hurt many non-player characters (you can play as basically good, neutral, or evil, and each has a somewhat different play experiences, particularly between good and evil), and the game is very non-linear. You also have a great deal of latitude on your play-style, although the game revolves around combat.The game comes on two DVDs ... the first one has Fallout 3, while the second one contains the five add-on packs. When installing, you'll be given an option to check data files corresponding to each game. Be sure to check them all; if you don't (or at least Broken Steel), they won't install and you won't get the new level cap (raised from 20 to 30) or new perks. You can always go back and do it later, but it's easier to do it when first installing the game.One caveat ... the game does not officially support Windows 7, as it was released before Windows 7 came along. The game works, but a lot of people, myself included, have had the game freeze or crash on them. At first, it was happening about once an hour or so, which I can live with. But it suddenly got worse. At one point the game was literally locking up on me every 30 seconds. I downloaded new drivers and re-loaded the most current patch, which seemed to help somewhat but didn't get rid of the problem. Finally, I read that running the game in windowed mode might help, and it has ... I've played about twelve hours running in windowed mode without any crashes. Note that you have to select "windowed" mode from within the game. Run the falloutlauncher.exe from folder where the game installed, and then click on "options". From there, put a check in the box that says "windowed". You may need to adjust your screen resolution to get it near "full screen" on your display. Finally, after that, I went to my taskbar on the bottom of my screen and went to properties and hid taskbar, so it wouldn't cover up some info on my screen when playing the game. You don't need to do this to get the game to run properly, it just kept the taskbar from covering some the bottom part of the playing screen. But Fallout 3 now runs flawlessly for me in Windows 7. If it starts to crash again, I'll come back and update this review.)This is a great purchase and a tremendous value if you like this type of action/Role-Playing Game. It's funny, well-plotted, well written, and offers hours of game play and replay. A big five stars.

HOW TO PLAY ON WINDOWS 7:For those having trouble with this game on Windows 7 where the game freezes after 1-10 minutes, here's how to fix it: The problem lies with hyper-threading. To fix it you need to use only one core. Execute "msconfig" (from the Start Menu's search field), go to the "Boot" tab, then Advanced Options and set the number of processors to 1.PRAISE:Great open environment for exploring, very nicely rendered characters and creatures. Great characters and a great story that makes you want to find out what happens next.I had bought this game for the PS3 but it was proving to be too difficult (at the Normal level) so I decided to get the PC version instead to get access to the cheats. Now, with some cheats turned on it has become more fun and less frustrating.This game's hacking is the most intellectually challenging and fun I have come across among all the games I have played. You have to get a pencil and paper to solve the hacking word puzzle. Blind luck will not help you.Getting this version is cheaper than getting the game and DLCs separately.COMPLAINTS:The environment is quite dull with shades of grey everywhere but that was probably intentional to fit the mood of a nuclear wasteland. Still, the aesthetics could have been made more pleasing.I feel that this game punishes the player unfairly. If you get injured you can drink but that will get you irradiated in which case you need to get Rad-X but that costs bottle-caps (the currency of Fallout 3) and there never seem to be enough around. Furthermore, having a level cap is unfair. You can only build up your character to a certain level which means there will be SPECIAL abilities you won't get access to. Lock-picking is a frustrating chore. You need bobby-pins but they are scarce and break easily, so the player has to save and reload often. The same with hacking. If you fail and didn't save before starting, you then get locked out permanently. You can get a SPECIAL ability to hack locked computers but again that can only be done once.Therefore, this game is more fun and fair when played with cheats. With the cheats you can raise the level cap, give yourself enough bobby-pins and unlock any locked terminal. You can get all the cheat codes here: [...]

Very good.

L'ho preso per un regalo.. (io non me ne intendo molto) il regalo è stato apprezzato. E' in lingua inglese, all'interno ci sono 2 cd. Il gioco va alla grande. Buona qualità prezzo. E' arrivato nei tempi prestabiliti.

Product received in excellent condition. The delivery did take 2 weeks time (it had to come from the US) but the wait was worth it. I have played Fallout-1 and Fallout-2, and now I am journeying through the wasteland again, and the journey has been awesome as expected. My one gripe is that the bundled 'Wasteland Survival Guide' is in French. :(

Il ne fonctionne pas sur Windows 10 ni sur aucun mode de compatibilité sauf sur steam et ça coûte moins chère.

Apart from a few minor glitches (crashing now an then), its a great game!