



Should you so choose you can steal from the poor or help them you can speak with unshakable politeness or unflinching rudeness you can make friends and share resources or make enemies and take them. As with all contemporary open world video games, you are free to be the kind of person you want to be. Despite the hostility of its geography and inhabitants, Fallout 3's world is pregnant with opportunity. You see, with anarchy comes a giddy sort of liberty. But while Fallout 3’s America is a bleak place indeed, it is still very much the land of the free. This is an America whose dream died a long time ago whose selfish, writhing instincts were revealed in full when the blanket of social responsibility and respectability burned up in nuclear fire.

Every can of Coke requires a chemotherapy chaser, every rival scavenger you meet while traipsing over the endless debris would put a bullet in your eye sooner than look into it. These streets, or what's left of them, are relentlessly hostile. Indeed, if a player harbors any sort of perverse attraction to the idea of living in an anarchic, rubble strewn, radiation-soaked America, Fallout 3 soon dampens it. From the moment you exit the relative safety of Vault 101 and take your first lungful of radioactive breeze, it's clear that Fallout 3's development team has created a post-apocalyptic capital wasteland of grim authenticity. is a bleak and difficult place to eke out an existence. Just look at Modern Combat (I think) and its Taliban issue.Washington D.C. I think the studio just wanted to avoid the social outcry that may happen, doesn't mean it will happen, if they allowed mass murder of children in their games. Plus the rating board is the rating board. Not sure, but most people would not put Murdering Children in the same category as Consensual Prostitution or killing animals for food (and not pleasure). Because you have the option to kill the rat and the kids run up and start eating it right off the bat. I think that's pretty f'd up but can do it.Īs far as other reasons to want to kill them, maybe you're an animal rights activist with a persecution complex and want to REALLY teach those kids a lesson in Freeside for chasing that poor helpless rat. Furthermore, why is that off limits but forcing a prosttute to "pay" you in six for finding her lost love because she can't take living that life anymore is ok. As far as being damaging to the rating for the game. However, If I played an evil character along an antisocial personality disorder build then yeah, killing children would be right there in the mix. Yeah, see I'm playing a good character right now so wouldn't want to.
