Fallout 4 - Magazine

2. FALLOUT 4The action role-playing game stands
out from all of the other open-world
games due to the fact that it’s an
astounding game. The Fallout Series
have been around for a long time and
it has been one of the most success-
ful games out there. In Fallout 4 you
can play first person or third person,
this doesn’t affect the gameplay at
all, it just makes the audience feel
more open by being able to switch to
first or third person. All of the Fall-
out’s that have been released have
only been single player due to the
fact it wants to have something dif-
ferent and that the audience is able
to enjoy the single player part of the
game more. The game is an action
role-playing due to the fact you have
to engage with different characters
and communicate with them while
making your own choices on what
you say.
There is many different ways you are able to
complete the game, which means that you have
a choice of different endings of the game. At the
start of the game you are introduced to the main
characters of the game that is the Sole Survivor
(which is the character you will be controlling)
you will have the choice to make the character
either female or male also on how the character
looks like. After you have chosen on how your
character looks like, you will be introduced to
your spouse, which is Nora. After you have had
a conversation with your wife you will get intro-
duced to Sole Survivor’s son who is Shaun. This
is just the starting of the game. You don’t have
to focus on the main story, you are able to ex-
plore and do guests whenever you want to make
sure you have good weapons to do the campaign
with, which will make it a lot easier. Fallout 4
brilliantly starts off the story off by introducing all
of the main characters to make sure the audience
understands the storyline due to the fact it’s a
new story and that it doesn’t carry on from previ-
ous Fallout’s.
The main character is put through
a massive tragedy when his son was
kidnapped right in front of him then
he witnessed his own wife getting
shot while he wasn’t able to do any-
thing. There are loads of characters
within Fallout 4 but the main char-
acters are…
Sole Survivor – The Sole Survivor
is the main protagonist of the sto-
ry due to the fact that you are the
character and you have to make
your own choices on what he/she
should do. You can either be a fe-
male or male, which means you
either have a husband or wife. Also
while having a husband or wife you
have a son called ‘Shaun’
Shaun – Shaun is the son of Sole
Survivor. Shaun was born around
the summer of 2077, just before
the nuclear explosions hit The Com-
monwealth. When he got taken to
Vault 111, two mysterious charac-
ters kidnapped him. Which made
Sole Survivor try and get his or hers
son back.
The game ‘Fallout 4’ isn’t exclusive on any console. Fallout 4 was released onto Xbox
one, PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows, because Bethesda game studios wants
the audience to be able to play on any of the current generation consoles. All of the
Fallout games were released on consoles and PC’s. It’s better to play the game on
PC due to the fact if you have a good gaming PC you will be able to play the game on
higher graphics to make sure the game looks outstanding. Whereas on PS4 and Xbox
One they would of have had to make the graphics as best as they could to make sure it
doesn’t get any FPS (Frames Per Second) drops.
FALLOUT 4 -
Developed by Bethesda Softworks -
Released on 10th November 2015 - Price £40
“An outstanding world, great craft-
ing system, strong story and charac-
ters and more earn Fallout 4 a glow-
ing endorsement.” - IGN

3. The age range of Fallout 4 would be
18 – 28 due to the fact if you want to
purchase the game from a store, you
would have to be 18 because the game
contain blood, violence etc. The primary
audience for the game would be unisex
because you can either become a male
or a female for the main character. The
socio-economic grouping would be E
because many people that might enjoy
this game will still be in university.
which is S.P.E.C.I.A.L, if you level up the
letter C which stands for ‘Charisma’ you are
able to persuade the person easier that you
are interacting with. By having an open-
world, you are able to interact with loads of
people around it and help them out. Fallout
4 includes a very new feature that hasn’t
been put in any of the other Fallout’s, which
is building, throughout the game you are
able to build your own town to make sure
you can protect the people that are living
within it.
I feel that Fallout 4 is the game of the year
because it’s an amazing RPG which makes
the audience want to keep carrying on and
find the characters son. I feel that the game
is much enjoyable on PC because you are
able to make the graphics look phenomenal.
Throughout the game I came across some
bugs, which didn’t disrupt me that much,
but some bugs sometimes made me have
to restart my game because it was stuck on
a loading screen. Another problem I came
across that some of the companions are
very difficult to control, for example if you
are trying to do a stealth mission and ‘Dog-
meat’ runs into the middle of the room, you
will get spotted straight away. But overall I
feel that the game is one of the best games
that has been released in 2015.
The progress throughout the start of the
story is very basic whereas if you go like half
way through the game it might be more dif-
ferent due to the fact that there are strong-
er enemies trying to kill you.
To progress through the story could be
challenging if you don’t do any of the
quests on the side because the guns that
you may be using might not affect any of
the stronger enemies later on in the game.
It’s very good to do quests to make sure
you find new weapons. Also when you
level up throughout the game you are able
to learn new skills like, hacking, lock pick-
ing, accuracy etc. The gameplay appeals
to the target audience because you have
to be clever on what you chose because
if you level up random skills they might
not benefit you in the future so you have
to make sure you know what you want to
achieve at the end. Throughout the game
you interact with many different charac-
ters to find information about your missing
son,the interactions are very developed
because when you are communicating
with someone you have different choic-
es on what you are able to say to them,
throughout some conversations you are
able given the choice to try and persuade
someone into doing something. When you
level up throughout the game, you are
able to level up your skill tree,
Although there are some bugs throughout
the game, the narrative of the game is amaz-
ing, it doesn’t really need improving that
much but there are some things that could be
improved, such as the main storyline could
stand out more than the quests. The graphics
on PC are amazing; the world looks amaz-
ing everywhere that you go, but the only let
down is that when you look at the characters,
most of them have really bad graphics where-
as the world looks amazing. The gameplay is
amazing but the only problem that could be
improved is the bugs that occur throughout
the game. Overall I suggest that you should
buy the game if you liked previous Fallout’s.
Pros
• Big open-world to explore
• Massive number of quests which bene-
fit you in the main storyline
• Amazing graphics on PC
• Allows you to customize your guns and
make them better
• Enjoyable Storyline
Cons
• Bug
• Some companions are difficult to con-
trol
9.5