Fallout 4

Fallout 4 review - High vaultage. A vast and frequently brilliant return to Bethesda's atomic sandbox, but constant technical issues are a frustration. Your reaction to Fallout 4 will depend greatly on your expectations. If you're a fan of the series - or at least Bethesda's rebooted first-person take on it - then you'll find everything you wanted, and more. If you despair of Bethesda's creaking game engine, with its frequent glitches, stutters and occasional fatal crashes, then you'll also fi...

Fallout 4 is an engrossing game that lures you in with mystery and the promise of adventure. Fallout 4 is an engrossing game that lures you in with mystery and the promise of adventure. Its wretched wasteland can be captivating, and you never know what odd person or settlement lies around the next bend. Fallout 4 uses its dark world as a canvas for exciting combat and gripping stories, and when you dig deeper into its post-nuclear-apocalypse version of Boston - defending yourself from violent s...

An outstanding world, great crafting system, strong story and characters and more earn Fallout 4 a glowing endorsement. Most of the way this huge roleplaying-shooter game works is carried over from its excellent predecessors, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. It is the Skyrim to Fallout 3's Oblivion, if you will - it iterates on the previous game's already amazing systems, and it's similarly dense with locations to explore, genuinely creepy monsters to fight, and superbly engrossing post-nuclea...

A brilliant, massive sandbox of systems, albeit largely the same one Bethesda has been making for years. Let me tell you about my Vault dweller. She's a master of stealth in flame red power armour. Protected by her hulking exoskeleton, she stomps quietly through buildings - efficiently dispatching her enemies with a sword or silenced pistol. Sometimes, the dozen or so raiders she's hunting will realise that something's amiss. They'll search the area, making threats about what they'll do should ...