Those things, those ancient Bethesda bugbears, have improved immeasurably. Tradition dictates that I should spend a few paragraphs moaning about how turgid the voice-acting is, how pudding-like the character faces are, how lacklustre the storytelling. This would be damning, were it not for the fact that Fallout 4 does much of what it does so, so much better than Fallout 3 particularly, but also than Skyrim. Despite their many flaws, Oblivion and Skyrim were still experimenting with the possibilities created in Morrowind, but like Fallout 3 before it Fallout 4 only really pushes the ideas forward in terms of themes and guns. On paper, Fallout 4 isn't doing a whole lot new, and there's definitely an argument to be made that the Fallouts are simply the tock to The Elder Scrolls' tick (to use the terminology applied to iPhone S releases). Its surprises really come only from art, and almost never from possible actions you can take. This is business as usual despite numerous tweaks here, fleshings-out there and this twin series’ most impressive presentation to date. Structurally, no matter how much it might contain and how flashy it looks, Fallout 4 almost always boils down to Go Here / Kill Lots Of Things / Upgrade / Do It Again. When I sit back and think about what I've been doing, I realise that, underneath the newly crisp and colourful skin, it's exactly what I was doing in Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Oblivion before it.įrom spending far too long crafting minor weapon upgrades to painstakingly dressing up an AI companion who keeps getting stuck on scenery, from clumsily decorating my homestead to pickpocketing everyone in sight, and most of all from constantly interrupting my current goals with a new questline to endlessly fighting men and monsters. 'Oblivion with guns' comments about Fallout 3 notwithstanding, this is the Bethesda game which is most like its preceding Bethesda game. Perhaps Fallout 4's greatest failing is one which will please hundreds of thousands of people - the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree. The refreshingly characterful Fallout 4 fixes problems which have dogged their games for years - although it then throws in brand new ones to compensate, and it maintains the traditional smattering of bizarro bugs and underwhelming combat. Either technology finally caught up to Bethesda's aspirations, or they took so many arrows to the knee from the resoundingly popular but much-lampooned Skyrim that they finally did something about the presentation issues we've been whining about. Size, of course, is something we can all but take for granted from the follow-up to Skyrim and Fallout 3 – the lingering question is whether a new layer of quality could be applied to all that wasteland quantity. Feel like I've barely scratched the surface. This piece does not contain any plot spoilers.ĥ2 hours. It's out tomorrow.I spent last week with it, and here's what I made of it. Your character emerges into this blasted world after centuries in cryosleep, then must choose their own objectives and allegiances while battling mutants, monsters, machines and militia. Fallout 4 is an open-world roleplaying game from Bethesda Game Studios, creators of Skyrim, and is set in the Boston area of America, 200 years after nuclear war all but wiped out a technologically-advanced civilization.
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