Events begin mundanely enough, with the happy couple and their child as they go about their daily routine while the game teaches newcomers some interaction basics. You can customise both of them however you like, and then choose which is going to be your primary character. When things start, you are given ownership over two characters – a husband and a wife. Given the scope of the world, I would expect issues to arise, and they certainly did again in Fallout 4, but I spent dozens of hours and never encountered anything game breaking. It is almost something of a running industry joke, but I encountered fewer bugs than usual (no backwards flying dragons such as in Skyrim, for example) and none of them were game breaking. There are odd moments with framerate issues, too, that absolutely do let the game down in places. Sometimes dialogue gets into a weird space where my character and the one I am talking with are talking over each other and what was being said on screen bore no resemblance to the text being displayed. They range from the mundane such as a globe I set on a desk sinking through it and only being half-visible on return to my house. A patch has helped to clean some of those up, but there are still plenty of issues. It is also worth mentioning that the traditional Bethesda bugs certainly show up here. While character models also benefit from new hardware, the animations are still a bit herky-jerky at times, diminishing the visual polish. The visuals are certainly improved, with hauntingly beautiful landscapes, dilapidated buildings and creepy underground passages galore. It builds off of the infrastructure used in Fallout 3 and in New Vegas, but those looking for the tremendous leap found in going from Fallout 2 to Fallout 3 will undoubtedly be disappointed. On the one hand, this feels like a natural progression for the series. Now comes Fallout 4, and I am better prepared for the new series direction. Then I gave it a chance, and I was completely sold – to such an extent that I bought all of the DLC and literally did everything there was to do when I sunk at least a hundred hours into it for Xbox 360. I was impressed with the uptick in visuals, but I had my doubts that Fallout 3 would prove a worthy successor to the prior couple of RPG titles. Having been a fan of the heavily strategic, turn-based early Fallout titles, I was actually very reluctant to engage in the more action oriented Fallout 3 when it released. Related reading: Also out on the Fallout front this year was Fallout Shelter on mobile.

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