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Fallout 3 is a meandering adventure through an irradiated post apocalyptic world inhabited by robots, mutants and heavily armed opposing forces all fighting for control of the scraps. This world is as much a character in the story as the people themselves, and the loneliness of the place stayed with me the whole time I was playing.

I love open world games; the Grand Theft Auto series did that to me. The ability to wander as you wish and do what you like makes a game really stay with me. Not being contained by invisible walls, although there are always some however well hidden they are, makes me feel that I'm master of my own destiny.
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Fallout 3 created incidental stories that made the Wasteland setting a place I wanted to be. Add in the epic robots of the Broken Steel DLC and even for my eclectic tastes this is impressive stuff.

It's the little eclectic stories that I like most about Fallout. Sure, the main plotline to find your Daddy is interesting and noble and gives a structure to your journey and all that standard role-playing stuff. But it's the things that happen along the way that capture my imagination the most.
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Fallout 3's core storyline, with its blank protagonist and cliched daddy issues, isn't the greatest story in the world, but step off the narrow path of your central quest and you'll find dozens of stories worth exploring out in the Capitol Wasteland.

Fallout 3 begins how a hundred RPG and RPG-flavoured games have before it - with a protagonist striking out from his or her home, and out into the wilderness to explore, on a quest to find their lost father. It's the classic beginning for a hero's quest from any number of fantasy stories and RPGs, except the community you're leaving is Vault 101, an underground survival bunker, and the wilderness is the post apocalyptic wasteland surrounding Washington DC.
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It's a rare occurrence for a game to make such a nostalgic impact on me. But popping Fallout 3 into the 360 resulted in the unearthing of long forgotten and much cherished memories of times gone by. Fallout 3 being a game I could lose myself in, and yet at the same time, be surprised by what I found.

At age 17 I watched The silence of the lambs. The film finished and I realised that I must have missed half the film. I ran downstairs to check the time and found out that no, I'd been watching for its two hour running time. I hadn't missed a single frame. The film had completely enveloped me. I'd become so engrossed that to me it felt like I'd only been watching it for a matter of minutes.
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Here's what I drew with my mouse after playing Fallout 3. I hope you like my video game reviews that are not hand drawn - but written one mouse stroke at a time.

Fallout will scare you in many different ways. There are the unsettling subtleties from interactions with the game’s characters, and then there are the more obvious horrors of being charged by a giant, screaming Death Claw while you fumble to reload your tiny rifle.
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