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Game entry

Fallout 3

2008 · Action RPG, FPS, Survival, Sandbox · PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 · Bethesda Softworks

Fallout 3 holds position no. 49 in the world ranking on GameForever, with 1,879 ELO points and 53% of duels won out of 2,932 played. The pairing that comes up most often sets it against Fallout: New Vegas: 190 duels settled, 77 to 113. Its best rank by family puts it at no. 1 out of 150 (2008).

World rank

no. 49

ELO score

1,879

Wins

53%

Duels played

2,932

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About Fallout 3

Fallout 3 from the creators of the award-winning Oblivion, featuring one of the most realized game worlds ever created. Create any kind of character you want and explore the open wastes of post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. Every minute is a fight for survival as you encounter Super Mutants, Ghouls, Raiders and other dangers of the Wasteland. Prepare for the future.

The third game in the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. Combining the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction gone terribly wrong, with the kitschy naivety of American 1950s nuclear propaganda, Fallout 3 will satisfy both players familiar with the popular first two games in its series as well as those coming to the franchise for the first time.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,879 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games Fallout 3 sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 46 Mario Kart 8 1,881
  2. 47 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 1,881
  3. 48 Chrono Trigger 1,880
  4. 49 Fallout 3 1,879
  5. 50 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker 1,879
  6. 51 Ori and the Blind Forest 1,878
  7. 52 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 1,875

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Released in 2008

The standing

Where Fallout 3 ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Fallout 3 stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 1 out of 150 (2008).

Where Fallout 3 ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 49 5,110
Action RPG 9 528
2000s 13 1,304
2008 1 150

The community

The debate

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  1. lfarrell

    Great atmosphere, weak combat, that tension never really resolves for me.

  2. Mckenna_66

    It's aged rougher than New Vegas in almost every way except the sheer size of the world it hands you.

  3. NovaMaster

    Well, I still remember booting this up not knowing anything about Fallout and just losing an entire Saturday to it, no plan, no idea what I was doing.

  4. leilani_harber

    New Vegas did more with less budget and half the bugs, this one just had 200 hours of my life first.

    GhostByte2

    J'ai fait pareil, cent heures dessus avant même de toucher à New Vegas.

    RogueRider2008

    Deux cents heures pour un jeu que tu trouves finalement moins bon que l'autre, ça ne te semble pas contradictoire ?

    CapucineHunter

    Bugs, ou plutôt son charme.

    IronRider

    Doscientas horas suenan a mucho pero yo también perdí una temporada entera ahí sin darme cuenta, así que no juzgo a nadie.

    VinylByte

    So my roommate refused to touch it for months, then binged it alone in his room for two straight weekends and barely spoke to us.

    Jaime_95

    Yo tenía como quince años y jugué esto en casa de un amigo, no entendía ni la mitad de lo que pasaba pero no me importava.

    fatima_barragan

    Yo hice casi lo mismo, doscientas horas ahí metida antes de tocar cualquier otro Fallout, y no me arrepiento nada.

  5. SaveHunter

    First game I ever played where I just wandered instead of following the quest marker. Spent an hour in one building doing nothing.

    RogueLegend

    Passer une heure dans un bâtiment sans rien faire, ça prouve surtout que l'exploration fonctionnait, enfin fonctionnait sur toi en tout cas, est-ce que ça a vraiment marché pareil pour tout le monde ?

    RogueNinja97

    Same here, I remeber just opening doors for no reason to see whats inside.

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