5/5 ★ – Dehds's review of Fallout 3.

It is quite the change from the old ones and some things have been simplified due to the new perspective but there's new things that do make up for it. Exploration feels amazing as there's so many details in the environment, which make places more unique, and there's lots of worthwhile things that can help you on your journey. The side quests are quite fun as well and provide a good change of pace from the wastes of the Wasteland, which the DLCs do well too, as for the main questline it is nice but kind of disappointed that there wasn't a big baddie like in Fallout 1 and 2, but the more cinematic approach to the main campaign does make up for it in a way. Moving on to the perks, there is a bunch of fun ones, but I'd recommend not to pick any that boost your XP as it's rather easy to reach max level. The combat is nice and feels good that you can still do just fine without using the VATs if you prefer to play that way. As for the crashed I didn't really have much - I had only a single place that crashed when I entered it for some reason and there were a handful of random ones but for the most part I didn't really have any issues. And a final thing there's no difference game-wise between the original Fallout 3 with its separate DLCs and the GOTY edition, which includes the DLCs, and the two games even share your saves automatically.