Fallout 4 Poised to Explode With New Features
The latest version of the post-apocalyptic game series Fallout, Fallout 4, had possibly the best showing at an E3 press conference this past June in my opinion. Bethesda Softworks came to play! And play they did, with amazing announcements left and right. But the biggest impact for me was the demo of Fallout 4. Though the game was announced earlier on, I still felt it was the best showing of E3, next to a few new announcement titles. But Fallout 4 took all the aspects of Fallout 3 and improved them greatly, while adding many new features.
From the moment the game started I was impressed with the graphical leap the game has made since my last time playing Fallout New Vegas a couple of years ago. Taking place 200 years after a nuclear war in post-apocalyptic Boston, the player emerges from Vault 111 into this new free-roam world. Fallout 4 impresses from the start, with a very in-depth character creator giving you the ability to change virtually everything in real time.
In this post-apocalyptic world your companion is man’s best friend, a dog named Dogmeat. The dog reacts to your commands and can fetch items for you, even fight with you against enemies. The Pip Boy also returns, giving the player access to inventory, statistics, maps, and data. The unique targeting mechanic “bullet time” returns, allowing you to aim at certain body parts for mass damage, such as aiming at the legs to slow down an enemy, the arms to disarm them, and now critical hits can be done with a button press.
Some new features include a dynamic dialogue system featuring 111,000 lines of dialogue, a dynamic power system which can power whole towns, a layered armor system, and base building. That last feature allows you to take materials from the surrounding area to build your own home/fort. Rather impressive is just what you can make, from a simple shelter to a huge fort made to fight off enemies. It goes so in depth that you can even furnish your home so that it is unique to the player. It’d be next to impossible to have your home look similar to another player’s.
I am really looking forward to this game. I think this game will be Game of the Year, at least it is easily contender material. A lot of fans are looking forward to this title, and they won’t have to wait much longer. Fallout 4 will be in our hands Nov. 10, 2015, for the Xbox One, PS4, and Microsoft Windows. And those lucky few who managed to grab the Pip Boy Edition of the game, I am insanely jealous.
