Reviewers Liked
- Massive, varied, game world
- New faction system
- Challenging Hardcore mode
- Lots of new focus on combat, faction system, and setting
- Surprisingly strong story
- Faction system adds replay value
- Lots of major and minor improvements to the Fallout formula
- Hardcore mode lives up to its name
- Nicely marries the franchise's bleak postapocalypse vibe with a subtle Wild West tang
- Vast desert wasteland is filled with countless interesting characters and quests
- Retains the atmosphere and structure that made its immediate predecessor
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Plays host to a heaping helping of bugs
- Numerous bugs and glitches
- Dirtpoor AI
- Sloppy firstperson shooting
- So many bugs
- No significant innovations or improvements in graphics, design, or play mechanics
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