Introduction
Fallout 4 was created in 2015 based off to be a action role-playing game that was developed by Bethesda Game Studio's/Bethesda and published by Bethesda softworks. Fallout 4 is established to be the 4th game in the fallout series and released worldwide 10th of November 2015, for the Playstation 4, Windows, and Xbox one. The game is set within an open world post-apocalyptic enviroment that encompasses the city of Boston and the surrounding Massachusetts region known as "The Commonwealth". It makes use of many historical locations which are Bunker Hill, Fort Independence, and Old North Bridge near Concord, as the bridge out of Sanctuary Hills.
Gameplay
The gameplay is very similar to that of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, the two previous primary iterations in the series. However, unlike the previous two titles, the gun-gameplay was handled by id software. Some returning features is a camera that was able to switch from 3rd and 1st person prespective. Fallout 4 introduces features including a layered armor system, base-building, a dialouge system featuring 111,000 lines of dialouge, and a crafting system which implemnets every lootable object in the game. Enemies such as Mole Rats, Raiders, Super Mutants, Deathclaws, and Feral Ghouls return along with the companion Dog Meat. The player has the ability to freely roam in the game's world and leaves a conversation at any time. If the player has discovered a certain location they may fast travel to it. Weapons can be customized too; the game includes over 50 games, which can be crafted with a variety of modifications, such as a barrel types and laser focus, with over 700 modifications available. Power Armor has been redesigned to be more like a vehicle than an equipable suit of armor, requiring fusion cores and being essentially dead weight without it and can be modified, allowing the player to add items such as a jetpack or selecting separate types of armor for each part of the suit.
Other Machanics
- Perk -Unlike most games the fallout perk system is a little different, at the start of the game you assign at least 21 points to a group called S.P.E.C.I.A.L or Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. Through out this groups you are able to pick and choose certain perks that benefit it like strenght allows you to pick a perk that does more damage with melee weapons or luck that has a perk that allows you to find more bottle caps which is the currency to trade and buy with. If you want to have everything maxed out to show off to your friends you need to be at least level 286 which will take at least 22 days without any breaks or stops.
- Legndary system - Like the previous titles fallout 4 takes on the legendary system where a enemy has a chance to be a legendary gaining a second health bar, able to do more damage, and having more defence but unlike the other games fallout 4 is the only title to bring in legendary weapons drop from the enemies that can benefit the player in many ways some not as much but others that can be game breaking in a fun and chanllanging way.
- V.A.T.S - Instead of freezing time as in previous games, V.A.T.S. significantly slows down time, creating a "bullet time" effect. V.A.T.S. also significantly reduces incoming damage received by the player. Unlike in previous games, actions queued in V.A.T.S. can now be canceled before they are taken, and being in V.A.T.S. is required in order for the player to electively make a critical hit. Random critical hits are possibly only via certain perks and chems.
Opinion
Overall Fallout 4 is a fun and enjoyable game with a few places that needs to be worked on more or at least changed as it can break the game or just make it unplayable due to it breaking game pyshics, other then that in my opinion i would recommend people to play this if your just looking for a slow and enjoyable rpg that has great fighting and a fun stroyline that allows you to pick and choose your fault from being a down right evil person or just a kind and welcoming person that just wants to change everything for the better, but i am glad i could find this game as it shinned a light on other rpg games i enjoy playing this very day i just hope you will take this to mind and give it a chance and give your own judgement.