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System Specs::
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 5600+
RAM: G-skill [4x1gig]
GPU: eVGA GeForce 9800GT
HDD: Western Digital 250gig
MoBo: FoxConn WinFast Sol series

What is it?::
Fallout 3, a video game. More precisely, it is the third installment of a series of games that take place in a post-apocalyptic United States of America, specifically they focus on the Washington D.C. area only.

In the beginning you are a vault-dweller, the child of some of the lucky people to have escaped nuclear holocaust thanks to their Vault-Tec Nuclear Fallout Survival Vaults. The years pass and you get older and wiser and eventually your fate changes and you are forced to do what has been told to you as unthinkable, leave the vault and go out into the Wastes.

Rant::
First off, I've never played any of the previous games. I think I tried to play Fallout 2 once but it's lack of... graphics, not to mention the amount of reading you had to do really made me at odds with the titles. Fallout 3, just so you know, still has it's fair share of reading material don't you worry. Suffice to say that it doesn't bother me one bit thought, I love this game.Anyways, let's have a look at what makes this game what it is...

Bethesda is the developer for this title and hat's-off to them for a wonderful addition to the series. They're the same people that gave us The Elder Scroll's series of games. In fact, it is the same engine (with modifications I'm sure) that powered The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I find this title to be the best possible environment to use that engine for. Sure, the country of Cyrodiil was covered in lush grasses and green, bushy trees that rustled in the breeze and the Wasteland of Fallout has... none of those features, which might make you wonder why I say it was such a good fit. To answer that I suppose I have to confess that I didn't find Oblivion to be that fun. I just never saw a replay value that was worth anything after making my first character as cool as he could be.
This time around, whoa boy, I could be hooked for a while. I've noticed that in order to play this game, you kinda have be able to play as 'mindset' instead of just a class-based character. In other words, just because you want to use 'heavy' weapons doesn't mean you aren't able to, say, be really good at 'hacking' or for that matter 'small' or 'melee' weapons. They really give you the ability to create a unique character build for the style that you want to play, or as I was mentioning earlier, the mindset you want to play.

[WIP]