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With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition includes all five of the Fallout 3 Game Add-on Packs:
Operation: Anchorage - Enter a military simulation and fight in the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders.
The Pitt - Travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh and become embroiled in a conflict between slaves and their Raider masters.
Broken Steel - Increase your level cap to 30, and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime.
Point Lookout - Embark on a mysterious and open-ended adventure in a huge, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland.
Mothership Zeta - Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the alien mothership, orbiting miles above the Capital Wasteland.
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.
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.
9 comments
Spectral
9 Aug 16#9
Well it looks like the code activates on steam but the game was never converted to steamworks. It doesn't integrate with steams cloud saving or achievement system. It also still installs and tries to use GFWL when you install it. The steam forums are full of patches and fixes and work arounds to the various problems with varying degrees of success. The game has enough problems with newer versions of windows that there is a warning about it on the steam store page. Something along the lines of not being optimised for windows 7 or newer.
MBeeching
8 Aug 16#8
Whoops, I hope I haven't been spreading misinformation :disappointed:
I did own the retail GFWL versions but perhaps I bought it again on Steam.
New Vegas is definitely Steamworks.
Spectral
8 Aug 16#7
I'm pretty sure that isn't true. It's possible to use 3rd party patches to bypass gfwl but this isn't a steamworks game. I'd think seriously about getting this tbh. Even with all the community patches and fixes it is incredibly hit or miss as to how well if at all it will work on anything newer than Vista. Some get it running fine for others its a buggy crashy mess. Personally despite already owning this version I decided to play on the 360 instead.
johnchapman_
8 Aug 16#6
Hurrah!
johnchapman_
8 Aug 16#4
Thanks guys! Fallout 3 it is. I notice gfwl on the box though. Has it moved over to steam works now?
MBeeching to johnchapman_
8 Aug 16#5
Yes it has been liberated.
johnchapman_
8 Aug 16#1
Ok so here's a question: is this better than fallout 4?
maizecorn to johnchapman_
8 Aug 16#2
In my opinion yes, but it's not guaranteed to work without third party fixes.
Astec123 to johnchapman_
8 Aug 16#3
I'd go with Yes. I preferred 3 more than either NV or 4.
As above however, the game is quite buggy. I found it best to play making a new save each time as the game has some interesting flaws. While for me they happened quite rarely, they did enough damage that it made it worth having lots of saves to avoid finding a way to fix them after they happen with cheats, patches and workarounds. Things like quest items/bodies holding them falling through the floor etc. So the regular new save each time makes it more playable because you can quickly work out what's gone wrong and just replay it rather than spending hours like I did online trying to work out how to get around the issue.
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With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition includes all five of the Fallout 3 Game Add-on Packs:
Operation: Anchorage - Enter a military simulation and fight in the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders.
The Pitt - Travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh and become embroiled in a conflict between slaves and their Raider masters.
Broken Steel - Increase your level cap to 30, and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime.
Point Lookout - Embark on a mysterious and open-ended adventure in a huge, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland.
Mothership Zeta - Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the alien mothership, orbiting miles above the Capital Wasteland.
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.
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.
9 comments
I did own the retail GFWL versions but perhaps I bought it again on Steam.
New Vegas is definitely Steamworks.
I'm pretty sure that isn't true. It's possible to use 3rd party patches to bypass gfwl but this isn't a steamworks game. I'd think seriously about getting this tbh. Even with all the community patches and fixes it is incredibly hit or miss as to how well if at all it will work on anything newer than Vista. Some get it running fine for others its a buggy crashy mess. Personally despite already owning this version I decided to play on the 360 instead.
As above however, the game is quite buggy. I found it best to play making a new save each time as the game has some interesting flaws. While for me they happened quite rarely, they did enough damage that it made it worth having lots of saves to avoid finding a way to fix them after they happen with cheats, patches and workarounds. Things like quest items/bodies holding them falling through the floor etc. So the regular new save each time makes it more playable because you can quickly work out what's gone wrong and just replay it rather than spending hours like I did online trying to work out how to get around the issue.