It's more Fallout. If you liked Fallout 3, you'll probably like this.

The same great immersive systems and gameplay we've come to expect from Bethesda

Not much really "new" here to talk about; the additions feel almost vestigial and don't enhance the game overall

Fallout 4 is too big for me to tell you even a fraction of all there is to say about it. Its user interface is often too opaque, and at times Fallout 4 has some of the same technical issues as Bethesda's previous games, from strange AI quirks to performance hitches and actual hard locks of the...

The blue sky turned bland, and the sun faded behind a thick, green smog. I'd seen this kind of thing before. It was a radiation storm. Lightning snapped down in the distance but swirled closer to my location.

Its technical faults and lack of innovation are frustrating, but the game underneath is as enthralling and compulsive as anything Bethesda has ever made.

An amazingly detailed game world, with a secret and surprise around every corner; Excellent upgrade system, crafting, and good variety of companions; Interesting base-building

Technically unimpressive, especially in terms of character graphics and frustrating load times; Almost no new ideas; Dialogue and set pieces are often handled clumsily

The Fallout series is immensely popular and for the most part the games have been impeccable. But as Fallout 4 was presented at E3 the thing that probably got people just as excited as the prospect of the game itself was the fact that it was coming out this year.

War never changes. Since the third installment, the series that made that phrase popular hasn't changed much, either. When Bethesda Softworks took over the Fallout series for Fallout 3 and transitioned the game from turn-based overhead RPG to first-person real-time RPG, it was a huge change that...

Large, open wasteland filled with things to do; Equipment customization finally gives you a reason to collect junk; Dozens if not hundreds of hours of gameplay across the various side quests

Settlement mechanic is clunky and slapped-on; Power armor is suddenly dependent on a limited resource; Easy to get sidetracked; Feels like more of the same from Bethesda

Most of the way this huge roleplaying-shooter game works is carried over from its excellent predecessors, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. It is the Skyrim to Fallout 3's Oblivion, if you will – it iterates on the previous game's already amazing systems, and it's similarly dense with locations to...

As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home.

"There's no way Bethesda is announcing Fallout 4 for this year. Every time they announce a new game we see it behind closed doors, and then they release it the next holiday season," I remarked to my team at E3 2015, citing experience culled from over a decade of working with the Maryland-based...

Crafting / Modding / Building engine is amazing; Enemies are dangerous and slightly smarter; Goodbye desaturated greens and browns; Solid voice work

NPCs remain two-dimensional and dull; Side quests quality varies wildly; Some bugs and audio repetition/glitching; Two hard lockups on XB1; zero on PC

New crafting and base building mechanics and a densely packed wasteland, Fallout 4 is the best game in the series