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I remember Steam’s first steps, there were so many puns involving steam engines, steam rollers, and all manner of other steam technology and everyone saying how it was going to fail, and how it wasn’t working. I think it was such a difficult step in 2003 to launch such a service, it was a drastic move that would have been devastate to Valve if it had failed, but instead they took the step and steam is the biggest most bad ass success in gaming today. I buy practically all of my games on Steam.

While we’re all pointing very angry fingers towards the MPAA and RIAA and their relevant industries for trying to spread draconian DRM, steam has managed to slip somewhat similar DRM right under our eyes, but to be perfectly honest with you I do not at all feel threatened–I line up with everyone else and order anything that remotely interests me. To say I’ve spent a bit of money on games using steam would probably be a bit of an understatement. I’ve also enjoyed exploring older games like the early Doom incarnations and wolfenstein too; although I have played all of these I have never owned them myself and never gone through the entire games.

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Introduction

In the mid to late 90s I enjoyed the first two games of the Fallout series; they are still permanently etched in my mind and in my opinion are rated amongst the top ever produced.

Interplay (the company that produced/published these games) went under some time after leaving the status of Fallout 3 in jeopardy. Over the past few years I have regularly read No Mutants Allowed hoping for good news about my cherished game. Eventually Bethesda came along and bought the rights to the game and whether we like it or not they produced Fallout 3.

I’ve been waiting for Fallout 3 since 1998, That’s 11 years of waiting. So I’ve taken my time to finish the game and explored practically every part of the game possible. I spent over 56 hours and saved more than 1030 times over the past 6 months exploring as much as possible in the game and I feel that I have finally made up my mind about the game.

This review comes from someone who has finished the game, so expect a few spoilers. This isn’t a concise review in that I haven’t chosen to analyze absolutely every single part of the game.

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