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Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

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Regarded as one of the best RPGs of all time, Fallout 3 delivers on everything promised, and the ruins of Washington feel both extremely alive and dead (in a good way).
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About Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

About this game

Prepare for the Future™

With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition includes all five of the Fallout 3 Game Add-on Packs:

  • Operation: Anchorage - Enter a military simulation and fight in the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders.
  • The Pitt - Travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh and become embroiled in a conflict between slaves and their Raider masters.
  • Broken Steel - Increase your level cap to 30, and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime.
  • Point Lookout - Embark on a mysterious and open-ended adventure in a huge, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland.
  • Mothership Zeta - Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the alien mothership, orbiting miles above the Capital Wasteland.

Key Features:

  • Limitless Freedom - Take in the sights and sounds of the vast Capital Wasteland! See the great monuments of the United States lying in post-apocalyptic ruin! You make the choices that define you and change the world. Just keep an eye on your Rad Meter!
  • Experience S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Vault-Tec engineers bring you the latest in human ability simulation — the SPECIAL Character System! Utilizing new breakthroughs in points-based ability representation, SPECIAL affords unlimited customization of your character. Also included are dozens of unique skills and perks to choose from, each with a dazzling variety of effects!
  • Fantastic New Views - The wizards at Vault-Tec have done it again! No longer constrained to just one view, experience the world from 1st or 3rd person perspective. Customize your view with the touch of a button!
  • The Power of Choice - Feeling like a dastardly villain today, or a Good Samaritan? Pick a side or walk the line, as every situation can be dealt with in many different ways. Talk out your problems in a civilized fashion, or just flash your Plasma Rifle.
  • Blast 'Em Away With V.A.T.S. - Even the odds in combat with the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System for your Pip-Boy Model 3000! V.A.T.S. allows you to pause time in combat, target specific body parts on your target, queue up attacks, and let Vault-Tec take out your aggression for you. Rain death and destruction in an all-new cinematic presentation.
  • Mind-Blowing Artificial Intelligence - At Vault-Tec, we realize that the key to reviving civilization after a global nuclear war is people. Our best minds pooled their efforts to produce an advanced version of Radiant AI, America's First Choice in Human Interaction Simulation. Facial expressions, gestures, unique dialogue, and lifelike behaviour are brought together with stunning results by the latest in Vault-Tec technology.
  • Eye-Popping Prettiness* - Witness the harsh realities of nuclear fallout rendered like never before in modern super-deluxe HD graphics. From the barren Wasteland to the danger-filled offices and metro tunnels of DC, to the hideous rotten flesh of a mutant's face.

*Protective Eyewear Encouraged.

Game Details

Platform:
steam
Release Date:
December 17, 2009
Developer:
Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher:
Bethesda Softworks
Rating:
ACB rating of 15
ESRB rating of 17
PEGI rating of 18
USK rating of 18
Supported Languages:
English
Franchise:
Fallout

Product Requirements

Minimum:

  • Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
  • Processor: 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
  • Memory: 1 GB (XP)/ 2 GB (Vista)
  • Hard disk space: 7 GB
  • Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)
  • Sound: DirectX®: 9.0c
  • Controller support: Xbox 360 controller
Supported Video Card Chipsets:
  • NVIDIA GeForce 200 series, Geforce 9800 series, Geforce 9600 series, Geforce 8800 series, Geforce 8600 series, Geforce 8500 series, Geforce 8400 series, Geforce 7900 series, Geforce 7800 series, Geforce 7600 series, Geforce 7300 series, GeForce 6800 series
  • ATI HD 4800 series, HD 4600 series, HD 3800 series, HD 3600 series, HD 3400 series, HD 2900 series, HD 2600 series, HD 2400 series, X1900 series, X1800 series, X1600 series, X1300 series, X850 series

Recommended:

  • Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
  • Memory: 2 GB System RAM
  • Hard disk space: 7 GB
  • Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)
  • Sound: DirectX®: 9.0c
  • Controller support: Xbox 360 controller

Critic Reviews

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PC PowerPlay

90 / 100
"Minor niggles aside, Fallout 3 is almost entirely spectacular. Everything from the graphics, to the sound, to the plot is first-rate. The VATS system worlds like a charm, and...

LEVEL (Czech Republic)

100 / 100
"A vast and open world of unimaginable possibilities opens in front of you in Fallout 3. Great story, flawless combat system, and the option to choose your own way makes it a...

Meristation

95 / 100
"Fallout 3 is one of this year's best games. It's an unforgettable journey that lives up to the series. You are an ex-vault 101 inhabitant, and you discover a whole new world,...
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52.19% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!

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Relax & enjoy! 75.26%  of players consider this game to be Just Right

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Completionist! 33.03%  of players have Conquered It

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition User Reviews

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User Rating

Average score from 59 ratings
82% of users would recommend this.
4.5

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Buy it, totally worth it.

iwasdavidbowman
Verified purchase
Great time! This was my first venture into the Fallout series and I've been hooked ever since. I even bought Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics when I saw the bundle deal. This game series has a great story and the devs/writers went out of there way to store away hidden gems that you find throughout your travels. 10/10, highly recommend.
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Its worth a look

Fanatical User
Verified purchase
This game is fantastic and its one of those that you have to check out since so many people have played it and its like you have to find out what the fuzz is about.. Even though I prefer casual games more this Fallout game has nice ambience and the world is beautiful and the scenery believable. Enemies are hard ..
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Recommended

xavier
Verified purchase
One of the better fallout games, gameplay is fun and story is really good overall a solid fallout game
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Recommended

Saica
Verified purchase
Nice game, a lot of entertaining Even if it has a sexual describing, it would be better.
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Good game, not as good as New Vegas.

Krojet
Verified purchase
Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game, I've played it lots before but I decided to buy it again and it's just as good now. A little rough in some place like not being able to aim down sights, but it's a good first 3D Fallout.
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Great game when I played it in the past. Just cannot get it to run in current computers.

Danny
Verified purchase
I played this game a while ago on a PS3 and loved it. I wanted to go through and play it again so when I saw it on sale I bought it. Go to steam, download it, and try to play it and I cannot get it to run. I try everything, but the game is too old to run with current computers software.
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Recommended

Fanatical User
Verified purchase
My first experience in the Fallout universe, doesn't disappoint!
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Recommended

Alkorri
Verified purchase
Over 10 years ago I played this back when the ending was god-awful. Back when I didn't have the DLCs to change the ending into something that made so much more sense. To be honest this original ending actually ruined what was otherwise a near perfect flawless gem in my eyes. What made it more painful was that the ending didn't make sense, especially when you had certain companions with you. That ancient injustice has since been corrected a decade later with my purchase of the GOTY edition that included the DLCs, particularly the Broken Steel expansion. What was already a damn good game became so much better. And mind you, I'm one of those who first played the isometric Fallout 1 and 2, and loved every minute of it. Bethesda took the IP and elevated it for slightly modern tastes; some might hate the shift from isometric, but I think they did the Fallout franchise decent. Even to this day I cannot forget the sheer terror I felt ten years ago, running from station to ghoul-infested station, avoiding very angry Super Mutants and centaurs, all to experience pure exhausted exhilaration as I finally reached that obscure quest goal in the middle of the DC Capital. Fallout 3 is the kind of game that sticks raw in your gullet, good and bad. And thanks to the GOTY version, the feelings are now less like a shotgun to the back, and more akin to the sizzling tenderness of Mole Rat Wonder Meat on the tongue.
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Frequently Asked Questions

There are 2 editions. They are Standard Edition and Game of the Year Edition
Somewhere in the middle. 14% of GameFAQs users said Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition is Simple or Easy. 75% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right. 11% of GameFAQs users said Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition is Tough or Unforgiving.
According to USK, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition is suitable for players aged 18 and above.
Yes, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition is not fully Steam Deck Verified but the publisher says it is "Playable" on Steam Deck. Valve’s testing indicates that Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.
Minimum:
  • Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
  • Processor: 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
  • Memory: 1 GB (XP)/ 2 GB (Vista)
  • Hard disk space: 7 GB
  • Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)
  • Sound: DirectX®: 9.0c
  • Controller support: Xbox 360 controller
Supported Video Card Chipsets:
  • NVIDIA GeForce 200 series, Geforce 9800 series, Geforce 9600 series, Geforce 8800 series, Geforce 8600 series, Geforce 8500 series, Geforce 8400 series, Geforce 7900 series, Geforce 7800 series, Geforce 7600 series, Geforce 7300 series, GeForce 6800 series
  • ATI HD 4800 series, HD 4600 series, HD 3800 series, HD 3600 series, HD 3400 series, HD 2900 series, HD 2600 series, HD 2400 series, X1900 series, X1800 series, X1600 series, X1300 series, X850 series
Recommended:
  • Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo processor
  • Memory: 2 GB System RAM
  • Hard disk space: 7 GB
  • Video: Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)
  • Sound: DirectX®: 9.0c
  • Controller support: Xbox 360 controller
The average playtime for GameFAQs users is 68 hours. 52% of users played Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition for over 80 hours.
Yes, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition has broad critical consensus. 94% of critics on Metacritic recommend Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition. The Metascore is 91 out of 100.
82% of Fanatical users recommend Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition. The average review score is 4.5/5
Yes, 82% of Fanatical users and 94% of critics on Metacritic recommend Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition.
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition was released on December 17, 2009
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition is published by Bethesda Softworks
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition was developed by Bethesda Game Studios
Fanatical users tagged Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition as RPG, Exploration, Action RPG, and Story Rich
Fanatical users tagged Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition as Post-apocalyptic, Replay Value, Cult Classic, and Sci-fi
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition as having Singleplayer
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition as RPG
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition as Exploration
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition as Action RPG

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