

I had stumbled across a mini-nuke launcher and was having the time of my life (while jamming out to Danny Kaye) when I saw a group of super mutants coming for me. All of this happy music while I'm surrounded by misery and depression really makes me scarily happy. This could double for a point towards atmosphere the juxtaposition of roaming around a burned-out wasteland commonly referred to as Post-Apocalyptica, while listening to the Andrews Sisters or the Ink Spots.

He is singing about the beauty of the birds and the sun, the moon and the fields, the people, the fruit and flowers, all while I am staring at living death in the form of Post-Apocalyptica. I came back out to the wasteland with all of its depressing glory, only to have Bob Crosby serenading me wanting to go way back home. After a bunch of killing and fighting to get back into the vault, when I stepped back out of the vault again, I laughed. I decided to head to the mountains next and after a few deaths and some reloading, I actually made it.īy the time I reached this point, I had gotten a radio station back up and operational for the DJ Three Dog. To my astonishment, I arrived at the tower and was greeted by a pretty pissed off guard. I pointed my cursor at the tower and started walking, doubting I would ever reach it. I saw a tower out in the distance, and this became my mark.

What I saw was incredible mountains way out in the distance, several towns here and there, broken up roads and busted out bridges hanging over horribly irradiated water. I came out of the vault and just started walking until I found a pretty good high spot. For me, the first thing I did was to test the makeup of the game world. When you first step out of the vault, you can get a fairly decent idea of the scale of this world. Open Worldįallout 3 gave us a pretty big wasteland to explore. You are free to pick your stats how you will, you can visually customize your character in many ways, not to mention all of the apparel in the game, and you determine your personality I don’t think it gets freer than that.
