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[Scan_Man]

I think this is my Game of the Year. The game is by Bethesda Softwords the same developer that brought us the Elder Scrolls games.

What can I say this game has all the greatness of Oblivion. Though things like stats are simplified and classes are more less or less how you wish to interact in the world (for example do you want to be a gun nut, or going around repairing things for money). At times its very much like Oblivion even down to the world map music cues, down to the voice overs, and down to the quest system. Though what is a vast improvement over Oblivion is the world is actually interesting to explore. Kind of like how Morrowind was. The weapons are awesome. Anything your enemies drop you can pick up and use. If anything you have to see the VAT system in action. Hahaha I'm in love with headshots now. Anyway the VAT system is basically gives the combat a more turn-based rpg, dice roll, feel. Otherwise you can play this game as an action shooter.


Overall I am looking forward to logging hundreds of hours on this game like I did Obilivion. I can't wait until a couple years from now when the modding community starts fleshing the game out beyond the current content. I'm a mod nut. I have 80 mods going on Oblivion currently.

This post has been edited by Scan_Man: Oct 29 2008, 04:03 PM

[Scan_Man]

Yeah I been pumping insane amount of horus into this game. And I don't even game like that anymore.


I know its been said by lots of people but I like how the game teases you with finding a lot of the cool weapons early but good luck finding ammo for it. And the amount of detail when you kill stuff with VATS. I dont think I have ever seen squirts of blood hit the wall and some of it bounces off.


The whole Vault 112 sequence was creepy.


The detail of Washington DC is insane. I live there, and can say the streets and especially Metro sations are insanely accurate. Does not surprise me though because Bethesday Softworks is well based out here (Bethesday, Maryland duh). Also the draw distance is insane. I can always see the Capital or Washington Monument in the distance with no loss of detail (its there in real time). Though of course I'm running the game on my PC at Ultra High settings. My only complaint right now is there is a cap on the amount of shadows. Outdoors nothing except characters and a couple rocks cast a shadow and my card can handle having shadows on full blast. From what I read they did this because the game is a port and the PS3 and Xbox360 can't handle fullblown dynamic shadows. Oh well I'll wait for a mod to take of this.

So many games out this month though. The ones I have picked up so far have been ignored because of Fallout 3. I got to Dracula's caslte on OOE and stopped there. I have yet break into Dead Space other than the first 20 min. I've played a decent amount of Red alert 3 though (its more like Warcraft 3 than C&C LOL). Now Call of Duty, Mirror's Edge, Wrath of the Lich King, Left 4 Dead, and Mines of Moria (which I really want over WotLK) comes out next week or the week after. Maaaaaaaaaaaaan.