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Fallout 4 made $750 million in sales on its launch day.


 

10. Fallout 4

Come on boy, let’s go home

Fallout 4 is an open world action roleplaying game developed by Bethesda. Based in Boston 210 years after the Great War, which ended when all of the nuclear-capable nations launched all their nuclear weapons, causing a massive fallout. This story follows the happenings of Fallout 3 and even includes and alludes to some of the story and characters from the previous game.

You play as a fully customizable character which you create in the very beginning of the game. You will be able to choose your character’s appearance – from skin texture to body type, and their attributes, allowing you to place points into an attribute chart called S.P.E.C.I.A.L. (Strength, Perception, Endurance, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck). From there, you will be able to choose perks under each attribute. And during conversations, you will be able to decide your character’s personality based on the conversation options that you choose.

You can make your character all your own

Once you complete your character, you will receive an alert on your television, telling you that Boston has been nuked. You must get yourself and your family to safety in the nearby Valut-Tec vault, which will protect you from the radiation blast. Your character, through a series of events, emerges alone from the vault 210 years later, and your son, Shawn, has gone missing. It is up to you to endure the Boston wasteland and find your missing son.

Along the way, you will run into many side quest missions and meet numerous wasteland residents and learn their stories. You can play the way that you want to in Fallout 4, which makes it all the more fun. Will you help post-apocalyptic Boston ride up from the ashes, or will you make life even more difficult for those around you? The decision is yours.

One man’s junk is another man’s treasure

The world is fully customizable as well. In previous Fallout games, you could collect a bunch of junk, but you could never really put it to good use. In Fallout 4, you are able to use the junk to build settlements, customize your weapons and armor, or create drugs that you can take to increase boost your stats temporarily.

There are so many different ways that you can customize your weapons. Maybe you prefer close range – build a gun that has a lot of fire power, and lower accuracy, or add sights onto it to make it a powerful ranged weapon. There are even some great unique weapons, like the junk jet, which allows you to use your junk as ammo, and the railway gun, which can nail your opponent to a wall. With these weapons, you can have some hilarious experiences unlike any other game of this kind.

Your armor has many customization options as well such as lighter build, more pockets, or you can use heavier materials like steel to increase your damage resistance. Some armor and weapons have special abilities attached to them, but in order to get them, you have to defeat hard to beat enemies. Some of these special abilities include slowing down time and increased speed.

Power armor is a whole different animal – these huge suits of armor can be completely customized as well, to turn yourself into a walking tank. It takes a lot of time and effort to get your power suit just right. Like regular armor, you will be on the hunt for the very best, but good Power armor pieces are more difficult to find. From there, you piece that bad boy together, slap some paint on it, place your power core in and you’re ready to go.

With so many mods to choose from, you will be unstoppable

As your journey progresses, you will run into twelve potential companions. These companions can be a great asset in combat. Many of them have their own unique fighting style – like Cait, who can punch a bad guy’s brains out, or Codsworth, who uses his robotics to defeat enemies from close range and from afar. And each character has their very own storyline which you can follow to better get to know them. Once you reach the peak of your relationship with that character, you will gain a perk from them. You can even have romantic relations.

Many of these companions come from different factions. There are four major factions, and things can get a bit sticky. You will have to make some difficult decisions and you may have to betray one or more of the factions that you come across in order to complete the final mission.

Take out your enemies with a variety of weapons – including this beast that shoots nuclear projectiles

Fallout 4 is probably the biggest, most anticipated game of 2015. It has won some very high-profile awards already, including three Interactive Achievement Awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, and the BAFTA Games Award for Best Game. The Fallout 4 base game offers hundreds of hours of gameplay and even more with new add-ons and expansions. Fallout 4 has tons of replay value because in such a large, open world, with so many different options and decisions, you can play the game differently every time.



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Favorite Genre: RPG
Currently Playing: Overwatch
Top 3 Favorite Games:The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 4, Mass Effect 3


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