Bethesda Fallout 3 – PC

このレビューを書いている時点で最新のパッチをあてていますが、とてもバグが多いです。突然クラッシュしたり、キャラクターの位置が不安定に振動したり。途中でしらけて、次のパッチが出るまでは、やる気をなくしました。

ゲームのコンセプト自体はとても好感がもてます。ある意味、少し大げさに言えば、アメリカないし、現代世界の文明批評にもなっていると思います。

それだけにバグの多さが残念です。
あと、特に日本人が英語版をプレーする場合には別売りのゲームガイドが必携だと思います。

とにかく暇にならない。
私が買おうとした理由は暇つぶし（たまにやる程度）で面白ければ良いと思っていましたが、今ではメインゲームになっています。

バイオ5以上に熱中できるし、プレイヤーの選択肢等で内容も変わってくる。
STALKER COPよりも時間を忘れるほど。
1回目はメインクエストを一気に進めてシナリオを終わらせ、2週目（ニューゲーム）から細かくやると良い（サブクエスト等をやるのに余裕が出来る）。

■注意点（買う前に見ておいたほうが良いかも？）
・説明書、ゲーム内が全部英語（画面上から出てくるLIVEは日本語で表示される）
・思った以上にホラーだったが、期待していたほどグロくは無かった（が、心臓の弱い方にはお勧めしない）
・入れ物の箱が外国製の馴染み無い物なので、ディスクに傷があってもおかしくは無い（動作的には問題無し）
・2010/3/26現在、修正パッチをあてればバグは気にしなくてもOK（パッチは自動で開始されました）
・画質が綺麗なので重い（調整は出来ます）

■内容的な物
・とにかくMAPが広い（移動できるのは屋外だけではない）
・移動手段は徒歩のみ（あれ？このバイク動きそうじゃね？…でも動きません）
・豊富な武器（実銃は無い）
・アイテムが多い（必要無いかと思っていた物が、案外必要だったりする）
・放射能は一部地域のみの限定された場所が酷いので、STALKERほど気にする必要は無い
・むやみに突っ込むと死にます（プレイすれば理由がわかる）
・若干SFだが、それ系統の武器を使わなければ現実的な銃撃戦が出来る

これ以上はネタバレになってしまうので伏せますが、買う前にネタバレでもよろしい！と言う人は、攻略サイトを見ると細かい事も分かるかもしれません。
プレイ中にどうしても攻略が欲しい場合は攻略サイトで。

I wasn’t sure if I’d like this game or not because I was concerned it was a first person shooter which I can’t play (they make me feel sick). I was really excited though that while it “can” be an FPS, it can also be played as a 3rd person shooter. I had no problems at all, I really loved that you can create and customize your own character. I prefer to play as a character I create rather than some predetermined character which is usually a generic looking white guy.

Anyway, I was really pleasantly surprised by this game. I took a risk on it, unsure of whether or not I would like it but I really did. Theres good and bad though, so here’s my thoughts, first the bad:

1. The main quest is pretty short I think and you can knock it out quick, but you don’t want to because one of the drawbacks of the game is that once its done, the game is done. There’s no freeplay after that last main quest mission. I would have liked to have been able to go do more exploration or quests after the final main one or even to talk to people afterwards to find out their thoughts at that point.

2. There’s a real lack in different bad things to kill, I count roughly a dozen or so different creatures and that’s about it and you see most of the different creatures pretty early on in the game, so there’s really not a lot of surprises. Further, I found I could kill pretty much anything I ran up against fairly early in the game, so the stuff didn’t really get more challenging.

3. I think there’s a disconnect between levels and experience. Either theres not enough levels or you get thru them too quickly. I found myself maxed out at level 20 maybe 1/3 of the way thru the game. That meant that I didn’t see any motivation or benefit really to continuing to do certain activities as there was no experience.

4. There’s a real limit to how much cool stuff there is in the game. Again you see the same stuff over and over and there’s not a lot of rare items, nor do the items get better as you progress. That would have made more sense to me, better weapons and armor as you progress and encounter harder and harder foes. Also, because of this, I found myself with lots of lots of caps (in game money) with nothing worthwhile to spend it on really, this took away motivation to bother to gather things because I didn’t need the money anyway.

5. I get that there’s only so much they can do, but still, every house seems to have the same internal layout, the tunnels all look the same inside, etc, just the configurations change. Its not a big problem, but its consistent with weapons, armor and creatures in terms of a lack of real diversification.

6. There’s a lack of diversification of faces, maybe a dozen or two and so you tend to see the same faces over and over, especially on the raiders.

7. Shooting when you’re not in VATS, especially on a PC is a little tricky, but not impossible.

8. I would have liked to have seen some romance options, but that’s just me, a romantic at heart.

9. It ends kind of abruptly. I would have expected the last mission to be a really tough battle royale kind of a “the biggest test” of the game if you will, but it wasn’t. That’s consistent with the fact that nothing really gets any harder or more challenging throughout, it all kind of stays at the same level even as you get slightly better weapons or much better skills or attributes, really it just gets easier as you go so for me, the end was really easy and I wasn’t expecting it to end when it did.

and the good:

1. I really enjoyed this game and felt sad when it ended, I think because it really does have a great story that draws you in and truly makes you feel connected.

2. The voice work is nice. Liam Neeson plays the father. Malcom McDowell as the President, both have amazing voices.

3. While more diversity of music and radio station choices would have been nice, I did enjoy listening to the music and news of Galaxy News Radio. The old style music was a neat contrast against the wasteland.

4. The world is very big and the environment is beautiful and detailed. I would have liked to have seen it be a fully usable/destructable world like in some other games, but walking around, especially at sunrise or sunset, this is a really cool looking place with lots to see, lots to explore.

5. Tons of little side quests ranging from small nothing things to bigger things, so plenty to do.

6. I liked the karma system and how people respond to you is based on that. Its not something you set in a window like I’m going to have X karma and be evil, its more based on your choices which I think is how it should be.

7. VATS makes shooting pretty easy and the slow motion of body parts flying everywhere when you hit something is a neat bonus.

So for whatever shortcomings the game has, I highly highly recommend it. It plays out more as an RPG (role playing game) than a pure shooter. You’re not just shooting at stuff with no reason, this has a real story and you’re a character in a world that you feel connected with. There’s a bunch of DLC add on content too but I didn’t buy into that. So if you’re good with 3rd person shooter games (or 1st person) like GTA, Saints Row, Dragon Age, etc, you may very much like this one.

I’m gonna try to keep this short. I did not buy this to actually “play” the game, although it did start a play through to make sure it worked. It does. I have played this game a dozen times through Xbox and Steam, so the only reason I bought this was for the xbox achievements.

I spent $3 on the game in total. Got a nice extra in that shipping was just ignored. So the used copy I bought from a goodwill which was expected 2 weeks after order date came early – 3 days after.

But anyway, once it was received, I put it in my pc disc drive and let it install. Took about 30 minutes which meant that installation was harder than 100%ing the game lol. Once it had started I signed into XBL and typed ~ then “addachievement 1” and so on until you get to #72.

That’s 1500 gamerscore in literally 40 minutes. Runs fine on windows 10 too although I hear that GFWL is finicky. If you get confused, look at the forums for FO3PC on Trueachievements.com.

ゲームの内容そのものは名作フォールアウト３なので問題無し。
日本版ではカットされたキャラやエピソード、グロ描写が楽しめるなら問題無し。

それよりもこれをやってると、どんどん英語のヒアリングレベルが上がっていくのが素晴らしい。もちろん日本語版をプレイしていないと辛いが一度でもクリアしていればなんとかなる。最初は聞く事すら追いつかないのが徐々に耳が追い付いてきて、更にいつの間にか日本語訳でなくイメージが脳裏に浮かぶようになり、ふと気づくと普通に理解していたりするので驚いた。

英語しか使わない生活をするとあっという間にしゃべれるようになるというが、それがよく分かる。もちろんヒアリングと文章理解しか上がらずしゃべれるようになる訳ではないが、それだけでも十分だと思う。まぁスラングが多いのでこのまま覚えてもなかなか使う機会は無いと思うけど…

ゲームが面白くて、おまけに英語能力まであがってしまうこのソフト。お薦めです。