

Each limb has its own health bar, and when a player takes damage to that limb, it may become crippled. However, Fallout 3 also has a specific limb system in place that can affect several things. General health meaning, of course, the life bar that shrinks as they take damage. When taking damage, the player's general health or limb health may be affected. Health & Item Degradation Shoot their legs to slow them down Players can also take Jet, a Chem that briefly increases the amount of AP available to their character. However, continued combat in real-time while they are regenerating will cause them to fill up slower. After use, the AP must then regenerate in real-time. requires a certain number of action points (AP) depending on weapon power expending slightly less than a quarter with a single shot with some pistols, while expending them all with weapons such as the Fat Man. The percentage chance of a hit and the damage done by each queued attack depend on several factors including player level, distance from target, perks obtained and skills, and weapon used. ( Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System) which pauses the game and allows the character to queue attacks on specific enemy body parts while calculating the odds of each shot hitting the target. In addition to the real-time first person action, Fallout 3 introduced a feature called V.A.T.S. Gameplay Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System (V.A.T.S.) V.A.T.S. The downloadable content was initially exclusive to the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game, but was later released on the PlayStation 3. Most of the pieces took place outside of the Wasteland.

However, the system is markedly different from that of Oblivion in that, once an area is discovered, the environment is locked down to the level at which the player found it, preventing unrealistic jumps in enemy levels over the course of the game.īethesda supported the game post-release with a number of downloadable content packs. This is a change from the previous Fallout games, which featured zones that posed a huge risk to a low-level character if visited too early by the player. This keeps the difficulty of the game consistent, along with opening the majority of the game up to the player from the beginning. Like Oblivion, enemies and items spawn relative to the player's current level. The game blends design elements and approaches from both the Fallout and Elder Scrolls franchises, resulting in fan debate about Fallout 3's legitimacy as a "real" Fallout game. Although set in the same universe, Fallout 3 takes place in the Capital Wasteland in and around the Washington D.C. Developed and published by Bethesda Softworks, it was released on Octoon the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 the game takes place approximately thirty years after the events in Fallout 2. Fallout 3 is the third game in the Fallout series and the first to feature a first person perspective.
