*Disclaimer – this is written BY an idiot, not FOR idiots

So I’m not usually the sort for single player open world roaming RPGs, or whatever it is they call themselves these days. I never played oblivion, never played Fable, owt like that. After my depressingly boring weekend with MMOs, I started shopping round for something to play on my recently fixed (and never played ( Xbox 360. My choices were between Fallout 3, Fable 2, and Dead Space. After checking out videos on YouTube I decided I’d only enjoy Fable 2 if I had someone to play with (I don’t) and Dead Space was simply too terrifying for me; so I opted for Fallout 3, which I bought Sunday afternoon.

Post apocalyptic (slightly) steam punk flame throwing shenanigans? Yes please!

Character creation was insane, the sheer number of options available to customise your characters facial and bodily appearance was literally too much. I ended up choosing one of the presets and modifying a few features, including a nice hot pink Mohawk. And thus Tits McGee was born.

After a short training scenario which involved breaking out of my playpen, getting into fights with bullies at my 10 birthday part, and eventually beating up an armed guard, I was thrust out into the real world. I might add wearing said guards helmet and body armour, and wielding his baton.

The first town I found was built around an unexploded nuclear bomb, which I thought was awesome. After quickly saving the game, my first instinct was to try and murder someone in town. This is a bad decision. Apparently villagers do not take kindly to you shooting faces off their friends, and I was quickly put in my place; namely a small puddle of radioactive fluid, face down. Time to reload.

Time to play Mr Nice. Talked to everyone, picked up a few quests, got my bearings, and stumbled upon a shady looking guy in the bar. He asks me to Blow up the bomb in the middle of town to kill all the residents, and will pay me handsomely. I’m sorely tempted, but as this is the only town I know I decline his offer. Also the Sheriff has already given me a quest to disarm the bomb (which I’m not skilled enough to do yet) but I fancy myself in a red-wire-blue-wire situation down the road. I decide to go talk to the Sheriff, and one of my speech options is to tell him about Captain Shady in the bar wanting to blow town up. I do this of course, the tattle that I am. Mr Sheriff takes objection to his this, and decided to go have a word with Mr Shady.  This can only go well, so I decide to follow. To cut a short story even shorter, Mr Shady Ends up putting  a couple of bullets in the back of the Sheriffs head. I then proceed to put a few more bullets in the front of Mr Shady’s face; steal their clothes and weapons, and make off with my new booty. Two people dead because of me, and I walk away with a bunch of loot and no repercussions (that I can see)… textbook.

The options you have in these sort of situations are going to be my downfall in this game. At several junctions I’ve had the option to do what I think is right, and what’s clearly wrong; each time I seem to choose the latter. I can’t however keep going through a game having missed out on all the quests in a certain town because I’ve murdered all its citizens, so I keep having to go back and do things again, the proper way. This leads to a waste time. However, its FUN wasted time, the most fun I’ve had in a video game in a good while.

Ok so this wasn’t a guide of any sort, but it IS a fun game!