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The most full, in-depth and detailed review that I can possibly do: Wolfstein 3D with better graphics and... no, that's pretty much it. Shame that once you have played 1 CoD (since WaW or MW2), you have played them all.

Assassin's Creed is fantastic! Climbing my way around Masyaf and Jerusalem and doing some good in a kick-butt style is really cool. I give you the review for Assassin's Creed 1, because, like ALL Assassin's Creed since, they're all pretty much identical. The last, best Assassins Creed was AC: Brotherhood/Revelations. After that, it just wasn't worth keeping up with. Get it if you want, but prepare to play AC 1 in a slightly different location... even the characters are ultimately the same, just different textures for skin.

Too little has changed. It is the same GTA as ever and it is time to update the series with something new. Few buildings to enter, minimal things to do outside of missions, predictable story, tired samey characters who are almost identical to all others in previous GTA installments... plus FULL PRICE for the next gen versions? O_o Why pay full price for something that only has a handful of irrelevant features added over the previous gen version. Just buy the PS3, X360 version and be done. It's cheaper and just more worth it.

TL;DNR: "They should have left well alone. THPS died peacefully with THPS4." They simply should have left the series where it lay. It's 2015, so bringing a once-fantastic series back after near-enough 13 years, and changing nothing for the better is just one faceplant with a large dose of salt in the wound. Fortunately, I didn't spend any money on this, and I STRONGLY advise you don't. Physically, graphically and regarding content, it has changed very little from THPS4, so why it costs full price of a modern-day game is beyond me. This game is an insult to the series which, as I stated above, should have ended with THPS4 or at least, this game should have come out about 10 years ago. Then, everything that is bad about this game MAY be forgivable. I can only imagine that this is an aged Tony Hawks trying to go back to the glory days, like your Great/ Grandparents talking about the War, trying to relive his youth and the old glory days. But, instead, just kicking up dust that wind up making people cough and leading to irrelevancy.

TL;DNR: "Great game with faults but overall it is a great game" I FULLY CONCEDE: It isn't the series-changing, genre-altering behemoth we were expecting, but even though, it is fantastic. I would agree that it isn't directly *best* Fallout game out there but compared to Fallout 3 and New Vegas, in many areas it is an improvement and only in a few others it seems like a down-grade. All the Trogs that think "the graphics are bad. 1/10" are mistaking this game for something it's not. Fallout and The Elder Scrolls have NEVER really been about graphics and animations so realistic they make people wonder if it is real life, instead they have veer towards aesthetics and atmosphere. It has been about the gameplay and content over all else. Priority 1: Gameplay and content. Priority 2: Story: Priority 3: Graphics. While the story is a bit same-old, same-old and predictable almost to the point where some parts you wonder if you wrote it, I don't personally think that this should totally bring the game down. It does seem as though Bethesda Softworks have switched priority 2 and 3 around, but maybe that is not too much of a bad thing. On with the dogmeat of the review. Starting with the bad. Personally, I know this may draw some Flak, but I think the voiced protagonist isn't exactly a good thing. In a game where I make a character and am supposed to make that character almost an virtual extension of myself, I don't like the fact that someone who sounds nothing like me and may not be feeling the way I feel personally speaks for me. In addition, some times (though rare) the emotions, selections and words that the actor says haven't always been fitting with the conversation so far. I know that is hard to achieve, but it is weird to go from Sarcastic, funny-guy to "Please help me find them!" while practically crying his/her eyes out. Or when you select an option and he seems to say something you weren't expecting. Like "O - What's Bloop?" then he says "I have never heard of that" instead of asking the question. That wasn't an option, just an example. I find I can't connect as well to their story as much as I could to 101 from Fallout 3. Also, I find the enemies in the beginning are ridiculously over-powered. One of the first missions involves a Deathclaw and Power Armour. Ain't no one got time from that 5 seconds out the Vault. Fortunately, they do ease up, but when the only weapons you can find are piddly hand guns which may as well fire water, it gets quite draining. Arguably (thought this isn't too bad) the graphics and animations are a bit sub-par for current gen, but considering content, I give that a pass. Finally the good stuff. I'll tell you a story of 1 in-game day in the Fallout 4 to better describe the good points. No spoilers. I decided, like a boss, to travel and try to unlock as much of the main city as possible. I set out at 9 AM from Diamond city, full of excitement and eager, and immediately regretted it. I marched my way south at first and head-first into a host of Supermutants who very nearly finished me off. I sneaked away from them and breathed a sigh of relief before quickly realizing, I had no clue as to where I was or how to get back to Diamond city.after learning my lesson and now going everywhere in sneak, I decided to make my way East to the coast and just explore my way around the periphery of the City to build strength before delving into the heart. Middle of the day, I encountered a large Raider camp. Taking several out before being spotted, I suddenly realized they were everywhere. Above, behind and all sides. I held my own and after ages of fighting and many Stimpaks later, I came out on top, low on health, ammo and suddenly realizing I was too far from Diamond to return and was thrust into a real fight for survival. Using the weapons and ammo I had scavenged from the Raiders and a few Supermutants they killed while fighting me, I saw the sun was setting. I stopped for a second to soak in the way the sky was illuminated in a warm glow, the columns of shadow coming from the buildings. By the time I realized I should get moving, darkness. Pitch black and the only thing guiding me were sounds of sporadic gunfire and Raider chatter telling me to avoid and area and ominous campfires promising aid and ammo if I could take it. I remained largely in one area over night only venturing around 1 or 2 blocks with caution until I felt tough enough to move 1 block - into disaster. Ghouls came at me from all directions and once they were dispatched, I alerted Raiders who came with a vengeance. I retreated into a Supermutant nest and hid as much as I could while Supermutants, Raiders and a few Ghouls uked it out into the beautiful pink-skies of the morning when I finally saw a chance to run from the Bus I was hiding in and legged it. The only stroke of luck through this whole ordeal was I ran straight into Diamond city. No, practically an Agoraphobic, my character barely leaves the city after that.