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| From: Bethesda
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $119.99
Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 2106
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Survival - Amazon.com Exclusive
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 9.1 x 6.5
UPC: 093155129306
EAN: 0093155129306
ASIN: B0017QFX30
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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The third game in the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. Combining the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction gone terribly wrong, with the kitschy naivety of American 1950s nuclear propaganda, Fallout 3 will satisfy both players familiar with the popular first two games in its series as well as those coming to the franchise for the first time.
Welcome to the nation's capital.
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The Brotherhood of Steel is a powerful ally.
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Customize characters with your Pip-Boy.
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The Story: Vault 101 - Jewel of the Wastes
For 200 years, Vault 101 , a fallout shelter, has faithfully served the surviving residents of Washington DC and its environs, now known as the Capital Wasteland. Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Giant Insects, Raiders, Slavers, and yes, even Super Mutants are all no match for superior Vault-Tec engineering. Yet one fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the only home you've ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth.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 featuring gory dismemberments and spectacular explosions.
- 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 dialog, and lifelike behavior 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.
System Requirements: | Minimum Specifications: | Recommended Specifications: | | OS: | Windows XP/Vista | | Processor: | 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor | Intel Core 2 Duo processor | | RAM: | XP: 1GB System RAM
Vista: 2GB System RAM | 2 GB System RAM | | Video Card: | Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better) | NvidiaDirect X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series) | | Supported Video Card Chipsets: | NVIDIA GeForce Series 200, 9800, 9600, 8800, 8600, 8500, 8400, 7900, 7800, 7600, 7300, 6800; ATI HD Series 4800, 4600, 3800, 3600, 3400, 2900, 2600, 2400; ATI Series X1900, X1800, X1600, X1300, and X850 |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...
 Fallout 3 Survival Edition - Pipboy Clock HELL November 6, 2008
gp3 (Minneapolis, MN USA)
33 out of 36 found this review helpful
If you purchased the Fallout 3 "Survival" Edition from amazon.com, you will want to be aware of this:
For me, the Pipboy Clock that came with the Survival Edition was Broken on Arrival. Two of the three buttons do not work which makes it impossible to set the time (short of putting the batteries in at midnight or noon). So, I went through the info in the box and found a warranty card. To my surprise, the warranty states that: 1) You have to pay to send the clock in for repairs, 2) You need to enclose a check for $10 for return shipping.
This is unacceptable.
So, I contacted amazon.com to see about an RMA for a replacement. They cannot since at that time they were out of stock, but they will refund my money if I return everything (and they will pay for shipping). At least I can get my money back.
Still unacceptable if you want to keep the Pipboy.
So, I tried to contact Bethesda Customer Support (301-949-2200) hoping that this could be resolved. They directed me to Bethesda Technical Support. Their Customer and Technical Support is the same thing (supposedly). After 4 calls to each of the numbers, this is the result:
1) No one can escalate the issue..there is no such thing. Their technical support department is an self-enclosed entity that does not have any upper management. If you push to hard, they will direct you to Customer Support, which takes you back to Technical Support. Round and Round and Round....
2) They tell you to use the warranty card. Once you explain that this would cost over $20 to do this(almost half of the price difference between collector's and survival edition), they get sympathetic...but can do nothing. They tell you to call Customer Support.
3) If you call the parent company number (301-926-8300), they will happily direct you call to voicemail. Someone will call you in 24 hours and give you the Technical Support Number.
To summarize:
Bethesda is not responsible for the Pipboy Clock to work when you get it. They do not want to be responsible and do not care if it arrives broken or not. If it is broken and you want it to work, send $10 to fix it (plus shipping to send it). But they do not guarantee that what you get back will work, so you may have to do this again.
Does anyone else see this as incredible poor customer service?
Pipboy was a bit of a dissapointment. October 31, 2008
Adam Henry (Phx, AZ)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
First of all I would like to point at that the thing on the top left of the Pipboy people are calling a compass, is obviously not a compass. Since it is held vertically it would be impossible for the compass to work, it is a radiation meter, if you played the game first then you would know that.
The Pipboy is a cheap piece of plastic, it does go on your arm but falls off very easily, I am afraid to break it. That is about what I figured it would be like though, what I was really disappointed in is the fact that it has no alarm on it. I was hoping to be able to replace my alarm clock in my room with a sweet Pipboy3000, but it only tells the time, nothing more.
The artwork, bobblehead, making of DVD, and lunchbox are all very nice though.
Pipboy 2/5
Everything else 5/5 overall.
Great Game...Pipboy 3000 not worth the extra $ November 24, 2008
J. Harris (Columbia, MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The game is AWESOME! The lunch box, bobble head, and art disc are great but I'd steer clear of the Pipboy 3000 "collectable"...just plain garbage...not even close to what was represented on the official webpage. Save the extra $ and get the collector's edition if you want the swag...stay away from the survival edition...totally not worth the extra $.
Game Great, Video Buggy, PipBoy Battery Hog November 26, 2008
Sean G. Alt (Fullerton, CA USA)
Fallout was one of the first RPG's I ever played and lead me to Fallout 2, Balder's Gate, IceWind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, and now 3+ years of WoW. So finally to get back to the wasteland with modern graphics and interface was something I was greatly anticipating. Unfortunately, once I received .Fallout 3: Amazon.com Exclusive Survival Edition, I found that my 4-year-old ASUS NVIDIA PCIe graphics card in my desktop machine was not supported. I then installed it in my Alienware M9750, and had issues with the main graphics going black, while the HUD display overlay remained. Updating the graphics drivers and applying the latest patch significantly reduced the frequency of the problem, but did not completely eliminate it as I recall. My memory is fuzzy on it, because I proceeded to upgrade by desktop to a PNY NVIDIA 9800 GT. With the latest drivers and patches, I've had no problems at all with the game.
The game itself is great, and delivers the Fallout experience with modern day graphics and character movement and interface.
Now just a brief word about the Survivors special edition with PipBoy 3000 digital clock. After one week the 3 AA batteries that come with it died. I suppose the retro green LED display would inherent be a battery hog, but it does severely limit its usefulness.
The Worthy Successor (Almost) December 12, 2008
Dayne P. Chastant (Phoenix, AZ.)
Let's go through the little tchotchkes inclused with the Exclusive Survival Edition:
1. PipBoy 3000 Clock. For a unit that functions as just a clock (no alarm capacity), you'd think they would include an AC adapter plug. Otherwise, even if it works on startup (mine did, no tinfoil additions necessary), the battery life is very short--4 days even with high-grade Energizer lithium batteries. For that, Bethesda should be ashamed to include a cruddy add-on (and Amazon.Com being an accomplice to this, marketing an extra $50 for an object barely worth $5). No points for thise shameless attempt to wring out a few extra dollars from loyal fans. Next time, Amazon.Com, expect to lose money because you helped shaft a loyal fanbase.
2. The Other Add-Ons. The rest is a fairly decent group of extras for this game--artwork, development DVD, and the lunchbox was good even if it is smaller than a standard lunchbox. The bobblehead is also slightly smaller, but it's still a decent extra. Had I but known, I would have bought the Collector's Edition only and considered it a great deal.
3. The Game. There has been a lot of verbal shooting about the game and its license developed by Bethesda, as well as the worries about the path it's taken--"OBLIVION WITH GUNS," or "NOTHING LIKE THE FIRST TWO GAMES," and the like.
Does it live up to the hype? Personally, it does the best it can.
The VATS system does effectively handle the effect of tactical combat as opposed to the FPS run-and-gun combat, but the fact that you have a CHOICE that seems fairly seamless whichever way you cut it is a credit to the game. It's a gutsy move that paid off, IMHO.
The developers recognized that after 200 years, there would be more vegetation, but kept the bare rock and dust and barren wasteland look in order to hold to the FALLOUT aesthetic. In that way, it has succeeded. This is a terrible place that still bears the scars of what was humanity's most insane act, the choice to "GO NUKES," and the environment shows the remains of a civilization that was, to some degree, caught off-guard--a baseball field with bases and bats still in place, skeletons in bathtubs of houses in blasted ghost towns. Life is a hardscrabble existence where even the enemies look starved and/or damaged. (At least the inhabitants don't look prematurely aged like they did in OBLIVION.)
And the storyline? Well-written, fairly well-thought out, including a couple of twists and turns that are purely FALLOUT. The ending was, I think, a little forced, but it was also a gutsy risk. It might have been a little clearer about why there were so few choices, but otherwise, not bad.
The real thrill is the Wasteland itself--a reporter named Jimmy Breslin had a well-used and famous saying about New York, that "there are 8 million stories in the naked city," and there seems to be almost as many in each and every location, and there are a LOT of them. And there are no simple throwaway location, just to provide filler--each is compelling on its own--a diner right out of a horror movie, experiments going hideously wrong in relatively unassuming places, and quiet little hamlets holding unspeakable secrets. You get the chance to see all of the available locations at level 20 (the cap) and my personal advice is to snag THAT perk when it becomes available, just so you can see what you missed!
Is this FALLOUT? I believe it is--it uses the current technology, a compelling storyline, takes a few chances with gameplay (without any hiccups) and helps you believe that this is the inevitable result of humanity's ability to destroy. What is also here is the freedom you had in the other FALLOUT games--the ability to kill anyone you wanted, even if it was counter productive. (Not something for the sociopathic, but not being forced to lower your gun while you talk to someone can be a plus.)
End result--BUY THIS GAME. Fallout fans--BUY THIS GAME NOW.
But DO NOT BUY THE SURVIVAL EDITION. The COLLECTOR'S EDITION is plenty.
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