Thoughts 30 Nov 2007 01:20 pm
Fallout III
Bethesda is going to spend $20 million on advertising for this first person shooter. —-OK, OK, Bethesda insists that this is not a first person shooter… Sure looks a lot like one to me.
This is all well and good, but after talking to someone who keeps track of such things, it appears that this latest Fallout may well be turn based like the last couple. In which case it won’t sell. Turn based games are too slow for the current collection of users.
This also has some sort of Karma based system so I guess setting off a nuke is bad karma. —-But what’s the point of having access to a nuke if you don’t use it?
This is from a link off the Bethesda site:
The combat - which can be tackled FPS style - is more intelligently approached using the pseudo turn-based VATS combat system.
For a good review of the game click on the link above.
This is from the overview on the Bethesda site:
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.
Pause time? Queue up attacks? ——-Sounds like a first person shooter for sissies.
Halo 3 may smoke your Xbox 360, but if you can get it to run, at least it gets the adrenalin going.