The suit my character wears now has at least one piece from each major faction, reflecting both his allegiances and his victories over foes. Post-Apoca-ChicLikewise, the new armor system lets you piece together six chunks of gear - helmet, chest plate, and each individual arm and leg - on top of your clothes to form cobbled-together, asymmetrical outfits that feel like exactly what someone who assembled their wardrobe by scavenging the wasteland should wear. The best part is that those changes arenвЂ™t just tweaked numbers in the stats nearly every modification you make is reflected in the look of your gun as well, creating an extremely varied selection of weapons both for you and for enemies. A few tweaks to a standard-issue laser rifle can add burning damage over time, or split the beam into a shotgun-like spread. Stopping at a crafting bench with the right components in hand can turn a pistol into a short-range, pray-and-spray automatic or a scoped sniper with a long barrel for accuracy and a big stock to reduce recoil. вЂњThe value of those materials comes from their use in the fantastic equipment upgrades, which give most guns you pick up extraordinary potential for flexibility and longevity. After a brief glimpse of pre-war life in FalloutвЂ™s familiar-but-strange near-future and a retelling of the events on the day the bombs fell in 2077, we barely have time to get our hands dirty in the post-apocalyptic era before Fallout 4 throws us into a big action moment: YouвЂ™re given a suit of the big, stompy power armor and a heavy weapon, and put into an intense brawl against the seriesвЂ™ most iconic monster.

Over PoweredPerhaps because this adventure is such a long haul, Fallout 4 is a bit overeager to hook us in the beginning. Attention to detail is evident everywhere вЂ“ Fallout 4 might not be a leader in all areas of graphics technology (character animations are still a weakness) but from the intricate Pip-Boy wrist-computer interface (which completely changes when youвЂ™re in power armor), to careful arrangement of skeletal remains that tell the tragically dark or tragically funny stories of long-dead characters, to tattered poster art on the walls, to even raindrops on your visor (if youвЂ™re wearing one) itвЂ™s consistently impressive. The CommonwealthвЂ™s much more color-saturated than Fallout 3вЂ™s Capital Wasteland, though it has its fair share of grays and browns, and it shares New VegasвЂ™ bright blue sky (as opposed to oppressive clouds) when itвЂ™s not night time or raining or green with a terrifying radiation storm. вЂњExploration has its own rewards, as this is the most diverse Fallout world yet, with dilapidated urban areas, ominous dead forests, eerie swamps, a desolate area mired in a hellish radioactive haze, and even some areas that look borderline hospitable like beaches and budding farms.

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