At some point in the game you might go into a destroyed building and open a half smashed refrigerator only to find a gun or armor you didn't even know existed. And while the angle that you look down on everyone is a tad too steep, the exploration in the game is very good. Not a title for the little ones mind you, the use of four letter words is excessive.īut for everything wrong, I found several things right, the game is the right length for me (around 11 hours) and the controls are spot on. Next, the themes of this title are a bit over the top, and I know that's saying a lot, but show me another game where sleeping with a hooker multiple times (and getting a disease) is instrumental to completing the game. Thankfully this title has save stations everywhere, or I might have really blown a gasket. When I stayed home to play the game, no fewer then 3 times in a 10 hour stint, the game actually froze in mid load. The game has excessive load times, to the point of frustration, and even would lock up on me. But here is where the rabid fan and the average gamer are going to split hairs.
The ambience is superb, with the scorched earth look and blown out buildings everywhere, I knew I had come home even though it's been several years since I played a Fallout game, the whole thing just felt "right" to me. It's true, despite all of its faults, I absolutely loved this game. You should know that I am as big a Fallout fan as they come, and when I initially got this game, I called in sick to work because it was so addictive to me that I could not put it down. But half-cooked babies just aren't palatable, even in the Wasteland.
I suspect that, because of financial problems, Interplay had to ship this baby half done. The plot improves eventually, but even so it'll seem dumbed down to Fallout tans, while newcomers unfamiliar with the series' story will dismiss it as derivative and campy. If you make it through that, you'll graduate to boring fetch quests and more extermination missions. You'll waste your first three hours wandering and hunting vermin. What's left is a tedious trek through a vapid version of Mad Max. Worst of all, its gameplay offers nothing but rote combat, nearly devoid of strategy, story, or purpose. Its mutants and ghouls are merely monsters, not the irradiated subcastes of humanity they were in previous games. Brotherhood's setting has neither the bleak, epic feel of Fallout's post-apocalyp-tic Wasteland, nor any of its characteristic '50s retro-futurism.
To someone like me, who loved all three Fallout role-playing games on PC, this is a power fist to the face-an insult.
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