As some of you have noticed it has been a while since I’ve posted anything around these parts. Fallout 3 is to blame for that. Between the main game and the Broken Steel DLC my save game is around 60 hours currently. With the announcement that there are 2 more DLC packs coming plus I still have not played Operation Anchorage or The Pitt I can see my game easily getting up over 70 or 75 hours. However, I think I’m going to take a break until the release a Game of the Year edition with all of the DLC included to play the rest of the DLC. I normally would have waited to play Broken Steel, but since it included the ability to go from level 20 to 30 I just could not pass it up.

Overall I really enjoyed Fallout 3 and Broken Steel. I did mostly all of the side-quest first, found all the bobble heads, and schematics to build weapons. Then, I went and played the main story and the entire Broken Steel story without any other side quests in between. I’m glad I did it this way because the last 1/3 of the main game’s quests and the Broken Steel were a blast and I really enjoyed doing all of it without interruption. Plus, by that point I was leveled into the upper 20s, had some of the best weapons and armor in the game, and was virtually unstoppable. It made that last 10 to 15 hours of game play a riot as I was wrecking shop. After all that I went hunting for all of the Super Mutant Behemoths. The first ones I had run into earlier in the game were hard to take down but the last three when I was level 30 and shooting them with mini-nukes were just fun.

I’m not going to bother with a full lengthy review since Fallout 3 has been out so long, but I will say that if you have not played Fallout 3 that you should! There is a reason it was game of the year last year. One word of warning however, when you start playing Fallout 3 plan to not see the outside world for a couple weeks … maybe longer if you are the type of player who likes to search every square inch of a game. Also, if you decide to get the Broken Steel DLC keep your eyes out for Albino Scorpios. They are a real pain to deal with.