Best RPG Games

Fallout 3 – Best RPG of 2008

As voted by nearly every major game reviewer, the best RPG game of 2008 was Fallout 3. Fallout 3 was developed by Bethesda Softworks and released at the end of 2008. The storyline picks up where Fallout 2 left off. It is 200 years after a nuclear war has devastated the world. The player’s father goes mysteriously missing so you venture out on your 19th birthday into the wasteland in search of him. The area around Washington D.C. has become a devastated wasteland.

Fallout 3 utilizes 3d graphics and a free-roam gaming world. The player’s actions throughout the game have far-reaching consequences that affect the world around the player and they way they play. The gameplay is in real-time, but you can pause certain parts of combat to fire off special, area-targeted attacks. The game is played in a primarily first person shooter point of view, but it does have an oddly-working third person point of view as an option. The game has a heavy emphasis on slaughtering the mutants and other enemies you’ll meet around Washington D.C. The game doesn’t have a wide variety of enemies which can make for predictable combat at times.

The game was released for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. It garnered impressive reviews on all systems, but sadly scored the lowest on the PS3. The PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game have small issues, but the PS3 version displays jagged edges, washed out lighting, and other visual bugs on the platform. Overall, the game is great on any platform, but is considered to be better on the PC and Xbox 360 platform over the PS3 platform.

Fallout

The original Fallout was released in 1997. This game took place in a post-apocalyptic southern California in the year 2161. Ironically, the game was originally intended to run under the pen and paper RPG system, GURPS (Generic Universal Role-Playing System), by Steve Jackson. However, this did not happen and a new system was developed for the game called the SPECIAL System. The game’s artwork and atmosphere are reminiscent of post-WWII America.

Fallout 4 and the Fallout MMORPG

Fallout 4 is also to be developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Pete Hines, of Bethesda Softworks, stated that their company acquired the license to Fallout with the full intention of making it one of their primary game lines, like The Elder Scrolls. They’ve stated that Fallout 4 will not be an MMORPG, but there is a Fallout MMORPG currently being developed. There is currently no released date for either of these games.