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Fallout 3 goes top in the UK

November 3rd, 2008 @ 18:53
By Patrick Garratt

Fallout 3 has debuted at the top of the UK all formats charts, knocking Fable II off the top spot after just one week.

Full thing below. Data for the week ending November 1. More here. Last week’s charts here.

Posted in: Action, Bethesda, Charts, Hot, RPG, Retail, Trade, UK

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Psychotext said:

November 3, 2008 at 7:01 pm

The individual format charts are more fun… Wii Fit crushes all! (Again)
morriss said:

November 3, 2008 at 7:32 pm

No-one cares though! (again)
mortiferus said:

November 3, 2008 at 7:34 pm

Wii is unstoppable this generation, no doubt about it. Although I must say I haven’t powered mine on in a while.
Tonka said:

November 3, 2008 at 7:42 pm

Exceptionally good week for the 360 in the individuals chart.
reask said:

November 3, 2008 at 7:49 pm

Not a bad debut for quantum.

It got mixed reviews.

I like the bond games.
mightyhokie said:

November 3, 2008 at 7:50 pm

It is a fantastic game. I love Fable 2 as well, but Fallout is in a class by itself.
deanimate said:

November 3, 2008 at 8:14 pm

Fully deserves it. Completely enthralling game
Whizzo said:

November 3, 2008 at 8:23 pm

I was extremely sceptical that Bethesda could make a good Fallout, I’m glad to have been proven wrong.

It could use some more humour though.
Esha said:

November 4, 2008 at 10:53 am

Bethesda did really well with Fallout 3, I felt. It felt as though it were a wholly authentic reimagining of Fallout, while at the same time dropping many of the ideas that didn’t quite work of the previous Fallout games, thus making a more enjoyable experience.

It was nice to see that levelled nonsense go away too, I like getting my arse kicked occasionally. And it was absolutely bloody fantastic that resources were rare, so it had this survivalist feel to it. And since it is a post-apocalyptic game, it really should have that feel. I always felt as though I were too well off in Fallouts 1 & 2, and that everyone else was too. Things actually seem worse in 3, and the people seem more… craaazy. So I loved the atmosphere.

And Three Dog won me over simply by being Three Dog.

I do have my complaints though: The face zooming, the talking about important quest objectives in very open and public places (I hate that, so much!), and how silly VATS seems at times. I still want to be able to target crotches, but I’ve had to accept that I can’t… it makes me sad, but I can just about live with it. Pneumatic crotch-groping, we hardly knew ye. Invulnerable kids is mildly irritating (MUST KILL RIVET BOY) but they had to do that due to bloody age-rating/censorship nonsense. Oh and the fact that I can sever someone’s neck with a pistol… FIX THIS BETHESDA, PLEASE? The animation is unforgivable in every area of the game, but this is a Bethesda game so I knew this was coming and it’s simply something I had to deal with. I try to kill things before they can move too much.

So it’s not perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than I thought it would be, and most of it is in how well the stats system is implemented and the overall feel of the game. When I’m wandering around out in the Wastes it really does feel just as I’d hoped a modern Fallout was, and this makes me happy.

So I admit that I was wrong about Bethesda and Fallout 3, everyone’s wrong sometimes.

So yes, it really does deserve to sell as much as it could.

FAO Bethesda: DON’T SCREW UP TES5, this doesn’t give you a free ticket to completely mess up your next game with me. Fallout 3 had atmosphere, depth, and culture. It wasn’t filled with the colourless and entirely without personality dolls that passed for people in Oblivion. Don’t do that again. Set the next one in Elsweyr, the Black Marsh, or somewhere interesting like that, and make the people as interesting as they were in Fallout 3. And I’m still mad at you for having shitty multi-platform (serious issues have been found in the PC version, as well as the PS3 version) programmers and animators, get that sorted too, eh? Thanks.
Newbie101 said:

November 4, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Agree with all the posts above. I loved Fable for the week before Fallout but I’ve not touched Fable since. Fallout is amazing.
Hero of Canton said:

November 4, 2008 at 3:22 pm

I actually think Fable II’s the better game by some distance. Just to be awkward, like.