Found this while I was searching the internets for reviews of the original Fallout. This article was written just a few days ago:

http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/03/original-fallout-review.html

Go figure, people are still playing (and reviewing) the game 12 years later. Now that is the definition of a "classic."

Hmm..Well I wouldn't call this a review. It seems like some guy was a bit bored and thought he would state the obvious His slogan after all is "With no money and lots of time, what else is there to do?"

His criticisms aren't even criticisms, allow me to quote:

Well, as many people in the community know, alot of the bugs have been fixed, and though some still remain, none of them are gamebreaking, "this or that" is hardly good journalism.

This is a personal gripe more than anything, it's a choice that can be avoided. Both of these criticism's are pretty mediocre, then again, his bias disposition on the game doesn't make his good points any less painful to read.

This is just pure, unjournalistic, biased crap intent on blowing the Fallout trumpet. Fallout is not a game for everyone, and 'urging' someone to buy it, regardless of their tastes, is foolhardy.

I wish this guy the best of luck, but I don't find this very helpful. Besides, the originals speak for themselves.

I'd have to agree with Chris. Naive and biased journalism at best.
FO1 and 2 deserve more than this crap.

Oh look, another blogger. Funny though that reads about the same as some "professional" reviewers, heh.

Arg! Come on now. Unarmed skill being useless? It can be more powerful than the Energy Weapons or Big Guns when you master it. I slaughtered the Mutant Base with only my barehands. An energy fist hit on a mutant's groin knocks him for a couple of rounds. How is that not powerful?

I agree that the review is not really a review. I'd like to see it reviewed by the same "official game sites" who reviewed Fallout 3. I'd like to see what they think about the originals.

Kinda short-ranged review, but has some points.

I would just add the Slayer perk - all hits are critical - causing destruction and mayhem....the easiest way to pass the game (in my opinion)
And also if using a Melee weapon like Super Sledge - only 1 Action Point to use it ....so this is the easiest way to pass the game...(in my opinion)

That guy doesn't know jack.

The unarmed skill is probably one of the most destructive after you have it like at 150% with the Slayer perk. All hits do between 20-40 damage and usually I kill every opponent with one hit, even if the attack causes like 1 damage because ''their major organs have been exposed to the light'' or ''they are too busy feeling the air on their brain to notice death approaching'' or ''sadly her spine is now clearly visible from the front'' or something like that.

Unarmed rocks.

Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 are still being played and reviewed a decade after their release. I bet Fallout 3 won't make it five years. That's one thing about old games - they will always be remembered and played simply for the sheer purpose of nostalgia or for what they accomplished. That's one regard in which they will always be superior to Fallout 3.

:goodjob: Well said.

So you mean that only games from the 90's can be remembered, but today games can't?

Nope, only that Fallout 1-2 will be remembered for longer than Fallout 3. Has nothing to do with the 90's, even though I think games back then were more original and challenging than most of today's games.

It makes sense though, that a greater percentage of games from previous decades would be far more appealing than most modern games. Games can have more of a visual focus now, simply because it's been made possible. And your average modern gamer seems to enjoy the realism of a game more than the game itself. It's just the new standard. Ironically, even though some of us have been 'left in the past' there's plenty of gaming gold from the past to keep me satisfied until I die

True that

As someone who couldnt really get into the Ultima's, Original Elder scrolls, or other RPGs of its era, I think fallout is a game that fans of other genres should play.

Only time will tell if people are still playing Fallout 3 in 5 years. Personally, I don't see why not; Morrowind is still being played and it's getting on in years now..

Well, you can attribute that to the mod community - but Fallout 1 and 2 have minimal modding capability (and very few do so aside from some notables on NMA such as Killap and the TeamX group) yet still have enough base content to draw peoples' attention after ten years. If Fallout 3 is still remembered in ten years, it's not going to be about how epic it was chasing after your daddy or how enjoyable the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system was - it's going to be about the modifications.

Not saying mods are a bad thing - mods are critical to a game's longevity, something which has been proven true in games such as DOOM and Half-Life which still survive today thanks to their dedicated communities. However, I think some games nowadays rely too much on the gimmick of "yeah, the story, the engine, the gameplay, it all svcks - but don't worry, thanks to the modding tools you guys can do the work FOR US and make the game a good game!"

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Fallout 3 was released 5 months ago. Fallout was released thirteen years ago. You can't be nostalgic about games from this generation yet, because they're still popular now. We'll probably all start thinking 10 years from now about how we'd like to bust out the 360 and play through FO3 again, just like we do with the originals. ~~~~

true that