For a while, Fallout has been on pretty good terms with me. I played Fallout 3 a lot and I have both 3 and New Vegas on Steam but when I found out about the really special Fallout 4 bundle for PS4, I knew that I had to get it and the day after I bought my PS4 I was playing it. I told myself that I was going to test the game out for a while and then start a real game later on when I wasn't at my friends house but by the time I left, my friend and I had already played for a good 10 hours and I knew that I had done way too much to just start over so I decided to keep it like that and I built up my awesome fallout camp. Plus theres a dog so it's not like you can argue against anything because you have a dog. I'd say this dog is one of the best video game animal companions I ever had, it gets you items, finds enemies, does everything dog related. That's actually one of the reasons that I ended up liming the game so much, having that dog by my side made everything so much easier and so much more fun as well.

GRAPHICS 9/10

The graphics are really good, theres so much detail on everything and it looks really clear also. All of the creatures have cool designs as well and that's a plus but the graphics doesn't really go beyond that. It's awesome simply because it looks awesome and that's all you need. The colors and detail make the game come to life and my grade for the graphics aspect will be a 9 out of 10.

SOUND 7/10

The sound is good, the voice acting combines with the sound effects make the game feel and sound great. As for the voices, its all spectacular, each character has some great lines and sound clear and loud and then when you add the regular effects of fun shots or VAT loading make it feel like a horror game. There have been times where I'm walking around doing my own things and then I hear a gunshot off in the distance and I'm suddenly alert and spooked at the same time because that sound means that at a moments notice, something can jump out at me. If the sound can have that much of an effect on you, then it means that it's doing it's job and overall for all the little sounds and stuff, this aspect gets a 7 out of 10 for a grade.

ADDICTIVENESS 10/10

It's Fallout for Pete sake, you already know that its going to be a fun game. If I had to say what the game is like, I would have to say its like if Minecraft and The Walking Dead merged into one game and then took steroids. It's a survival game that's both more horror and more story as well and a game that has such a big world and has all those different aspects is bound to be fun. Not to mention who doesn't love exploring? You get all these fun locations to scavenge through and die in. (Like the supermarket, please, don't go in there.) If you are a fan of the series, theres no doubt that you will find something that you like about it, and because of that, my grade for addictiveness is going to be a perfect 10 out of 10.

STORY 8/10

Like all Fallout games, it takes place in a wasteland. It starts out with you, your spouse, and your baby escaping your house during the fallout to go into a place that you believe is an underground living area that turns out to be just a place where you're frozen. Long story short, your spouse gets killed, and your baby gets taken away, and you don't like the world that you wake up in. The character eventually finds clues that the baby is alone and sets out to find them alongside completing various tasks. It's a huge game, open world, and you can do the story literally hundreds if different ways so I'm not going to give out too much about one thing and have someone else do something else. Its good though, and it's especially good because if the freedom to complete the game however you want so the grade for story will be an 8 out of 10.

DEPTH 10/10
Two words. Open World Game. Okay, maybe that was three words but you get the point. Just the map alone makes up a huge portion of the depth and by huge, I mean a massive world with giant land areas and big cities and towns for you to explore on all sides. What is there to do? You can explore all the stores, houses, and buildings. You can kill various of enemies, advance your way through an intense level system, and scavenge for more items than you can think of. Not to mention you can build all sorts of things, create your own house and city even, and even wear a giant mech suit!!! Theres so much to do and explore that I'm all but positive that dozens of hours wont even be near what you need to play for in order to get the full experience of the game. The game offers you so much, and for that, this aspect gets another perfect 10 out of 10.

DIFFICULTY 6

Yes, the game can be hard at times but the difficulty for the most part is all up to you because theres only one thing that makes the game difficult and that's whether or not you have any ammo on you. If you have ammo with you, you are fine because all you need to do is fire at whoever is trying to kill you and if you are lucky, you will get out of whatever mess you got yourself into with just a slight loss of health. However, if you don't have any bullets, then you need to run away as fast as you can and make sure that you pray for mercy because once you run out of bullets if can be really hard to find bullets that match your gun and even harder to fight with your fists of a melee weapon, especially against some of the creatures. That is why ammo is so important to your survival and eh you must make sure that you never run out of it, which will actually happen a lot, but if you stay prepared, then you should be able to face all the dangers of the game with barely any troubles and for that, the grade for difficulty is going to be a 6.

OVERALL 9/10

Overall, Fallout 4 is one of the best PS4 games that you can get your hands on, and if you are either a fan of the Fallout series or open world survival games like this one, then you can easily find happiness from playing it. Of the dozen or so games that I have right now for the PS4, I have to say that this game is the 3rd best of them all, maybe 2nd. If you are already a fan, then you have played the game already, but if you aren't, then you should give it a chance. I love it and mg overall grade for this game is going to be a 9 out of 10.

Believe it or not, I haven't had the chance to play this yet. I've heard all sorts of great things from my friends about it, and I've enjoyed some of the earlier games in the series. Just that I haven't had a ton of time for gaming these days, and I already have a huge backlog of games that I own that I still need to play.

Hopefully I can pick this up on Steam when it goes on sale next. I've been wanting to play it for awhile now.

Jordanv78 : Be warned though, its a huge time killer, you'll be stuck for hours. What's your favorite thing about the series?

zanderlex : I'm generally a fan of these open world type RPG/Action games. The Elder Scrolls Series, Borderlands, Fallout. I just like having a lot of area to explore and items to find.

I feel like sometimes games can be too linear, and I like it when developers do a good job of making you really feel like you are in a huge open world.

Ha!  Nice pun.

Time sink cannot be stressed enough. I can never  finish a Bethesda game, the actual story just gets a little too dull at some point and I'm drawn into my own metagame. It was the new Settlements, a feature that's optional, and to some gamers, never used.  I drowned most of my time building wild complexes and taking on missions just to have more junk ingredients (which then get converted into furniture and such).

endings : I kind of understand what you're saying. Fallout is a lot like GTA to me, where after a while I get sucked into pretty much anything that's not story related. That's why I like open world games so much, because you can do whatever you want, yet theres no punishment for not doing what you're supposed to do.

This is definitely NOT my kind of game, but one that DOES like these games would surely "fall" for it by reading your review. Although you could have used more comparisons with previous games of the series, you still gave ample details to show why the game is good.