ItвЂ™s hard to discuss events further without ruining the surprise of the plot, but it is certain that the poignant and hard-hitting nature is one of the most emotional and memorable in any Elder Scrolls or Fallout game.But thereвЂ™s a strange issue here. You discover very early on that your infant child has been taken from you in the vault, and you must brave this new world to find out where he has gone. The main storyline in Fallout 4 is far more personal and empathetic that any previous Bethesda entry. Fallout 4 plays in third-person as well as first, but the zoomed out view fails to work in practice.You arise some time later to find America in ruins, your former home a shell and your pretty suburban paradise desolated. Soon however the bombs begin to fall and it is time to gather your family and disappear into the mysterious depths of Vault 111 before the blast hits.

True to form, Bethesda have created another beautiful character creation wizard here, with frightening realism, and itвЂ™s not particularly an understatement to believe some will have spent hours shaping the contours of their avatarвЂ™s face and body. In shiny clean pre-war suburbia, with its trademark sci-fi 50s aesthetic, we mould our persona. Yet the game actually begins before this. With the release of Fallout 4 we again find the developers following this tried and true path and yet again we find an entry that could well be worthy of game of the year.As with all entries in this series, Fallout 4 is set in post-apocalyptic America, in this case Boston, where nukes have ravaged the once green land creating a brown dying wasteland filled with monstrous mutated creatures waiting to feast upon any who comes near. These are all consistent themes from any release from Bethesda Game Studios and it seems a peculiarity in todayвЂ™s modern gaming scene that, given this, they can still reliably churn out releases that contend for game of the year. Meanwhile glitches and bugs will swarm out of nowhere, silly bugs, pesky bugs that frustrate the player at every corner, while loading screens rise out at inopportune moments tearing you away from the reality it attempts to create. They rarely glisten, with cumbersome engines that manage to judder along with erratic frame rates whilst still managing to look several years out of date. There seems to be little regularity to any release, with one game appearing perhaps every three of four years, and often theyвЂ™ll jump out of nowhere вЂ“ a giant fanfare announcing an arrival barely months before release. The creaking behemoths that make up BethesdaвЂ™s core set of RPG epics, The Elder Scrolls and more recently Fallout, tend not to follow the same course as other mainstream commercial successes. The long awaited return to the wasteland.

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