"If you’re going to spend 40 hours with a game, you better hope it’s got an interesting setting. It’s not always mandatory...Oblivion’s setting was as generic D&D-style as you can get, but the scale and gameplay were strong enough to hold most players’ attention. Fallout 3 manages to hit the nail on the head on all of those fronts, offering an incredibly compelling, massive world to explore, kick ass RPG-shooter gameplay and a story that’ll keep your attention well through its many, many hours."
forgot to bold the different part in the second one:
"I had the game crash a couple times. I, and other editors at IGN, have also experienced an annoying number of bugs on the PS3 version that have prevented the game from progressing or have broken the world. In all of these cases, reloading the game has been enough to fix the errors and nothing was frustrating or detrimental enough to give me thought of not recommending the game. However, there is one major issue with the PS3 version that can't be fixed with a reset. Every time anybody on your friends list signs on or sends you a message (or any time you receive any network notification), the game freezes and the screen blurs for a few seconds. If you have a lot of friends signing on and off all day, this will completely ruin the game. The only way to circumvent this is to either play offline or turn off notifications entirely."
i see what you did there posting reviews for both platform to show that there is a review score discrepancy. but i feel like it might have been better to just post it as one article and have a follow-up comment with further details.
i've been comparing the review text. most of it is copy paste (typical for ign reviews). here are the differences:
in the PS3 review, page3: "Perhaps the level cap will be lifted when downloadable content releases for Fallout, at least some of which is exclusive to the PC and Xbox 360 versions (sorry PS3 owners, you get the shaft here…and the game is launching without trophy support),"
in the PS3 review, page5: "I had the game crash a couple times. I, and other editors at IGN, have also experienced an annoying number of bugs on the PS3 version that have prevented the game from progressing or have broken the world. In all of these cases, reloading the game has been enough to fix the errors and nothing was frustrating or detrimental enough to give me thought of not recommending the game. However, there is one major issue with the PS3 version that can't be fixed with a reset. Every time anybody on your friends list signs on or sends you a message (or any time you receive any network notification), the game freezes and the screen blurs for a few seconds. If you have a lot of friends signing on and off all day, this will completely ruin the game. The only way to circumvent this is to either play offline or turn off notifications entirely. "
Fallout 3 is such an embarrassment of riches, it's hard to know where to begin. The news is definitely good though, because whichever way you stack it up it qualifies as a landmark game. Like BioShock and Oblivion, unpicking its merits is something of a Gordian knot. But that is, of course, precisely its charm.
It's rare that a game can hit the mark in so many different and often conflicting areas. Fallout 3 offers freedom without sacrificing a focused story. It delivers fantastic combat without forgoing a deep role-playing system. It's a fantastic game with incredible atmosphere that offers fun in so many different ways that you're almost sure to get hooked. This is one of the best games you'll play this year.
Earlier this week came the news of Microsoft pre-emptively choosing not to release Fallout 3 in India, citing "cultural sensitivities." It's interesting because rather than wait for a ratings board or authority to ban it, or local media/pissed off people to demand it's banning, Microsoft just said nothankyou.jpg and took its business elsewhere. Blend Games got to speculatin' as to what was so insensitive about the game, and they came up with this:
"Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax Media company, and Best Buy Co., Inc. have announced that in response to huge demand for Bethesda's award-winning upcoming game, Fallout® 3, there will be midnight openings at Best Buy stores across the country the evening of October 27."
This is Bethesda we are talking about, no need to worry. They are top-notch, your money is in good hands.It just sucks that the PS3 will miss out on the DLC, as this might just be the game that i actually want DLC for. :(
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