Fallout 3 is a role playing game made by Bethesda. The game takes place in a 1950s style post nuclear apocalypse of Washington DC destroyed by the nuclear war with America and China.  The wasteland is a rough dry hard place, and every day is a fight for survival. A place where a bullet is more important than a meal.  You are only a Vault Dweller chasing after his father in the heart of Americas capital nuclear wasteland, and doing anything to survive to be reunited one day.

           Mankind survived the nuclear apocalypse by building massive underground bomb shelters called Vaults.  When the radiation cleared up some Vault Dwellers decided to crawl out of the Vaults, to rebuild humanity.  But then some vaults, like Vault 101, felt it was safer to stay inside and made it illegal to wonder out into the wastes.

          You start out by being born, but during your birth your mom dies.  Two years go by, and you are a little baby that can barely walk. Your dad tells you about your mom’s favorite Bible verse, Revelation 21:6 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.” As your dad stops reading he walks out of the room. While he is out you escape your playpen, there is a book in bottom of a toy box, and this book called "You Are Special" lets you pick your character's initial primary statistics.

          In games like Fallout 3 you can choose what your character’s talents and abilities.  Whenever you level up the game will give you fifteen skill points to assign to any skill. The skills in the game will help you in combat. Skills make you stealthy, give you the ability to hack computers and pick locks, and they let you become better at bartering in stores and with traders.

          On your tenth birthday, the vault overseer gives you a Pepboy 3000. A Pepboy is a computer that you ware around your forearm, and you use it to keep inventory, check your health and look at a map.   The Pepboy 3000 is the most helpful thing in the game because it’s a way to manage everything on your character.

       When you are sixteen, you take a test called the Goat. The Goat is the standard test inside all the vaults, and the results will tell you what your character skills are. It also will assign fifteen skill points to your top three skills. When you are eighteen you wake up to your best friend Amata telling you to get up, because her dad the overseer is going to kill you.  Amata explains that your dad broke out of the vault, and if you don’t go after him, you will die.

          You can grab anything in the vault; anything you take will help you in the long run, so take as much as you can.  Vault 101 security members will shoot you onsite; you can choose to be stealthy and sneak around them or kill them.  Once you reach the overseer’s office, you must hack his terminal. When hacked, a secret staircase opens behind his desk. The passage leads the only way out of Vault 101. 

          There will be a switch on you right, and when activated the gigantic blast door screeches open. As you leave the blast door shuts behind you, and you can’t get back in. There is no turning back so you must venture out into the DC wasteland. As you walk outside all you can see is a heavenly bright light. A few seconds go by, and the brightness fades into devastation.

            Blown-up homes and buildings to scavenge and explore, clouds of radiation, terrifying mutated creatures, and treasures long forgotten await you in the DC wasteland.  The changes you make around the wasteland will affect the rebuilding of humanity.  

Fallout 3 is my favorite game because from this point, the game fallout 3 is enormous and you can go anywhere you want freely. Its multiple twisted story lines and the things you can find are amazing and quite frightening. The re play value never dies and if I had to rate this game, I would give it a twenty out of ten. This game is truly a masterpiece, and I highly recommend playing it.