This past weekend I finally got around to completing the main story in Fallout 3. After reading this hilarious description of the plot in Fallout 3 (spoiler alert!!!), I decided the end could wait and had been mainly running around completing side quests and generally exploring the Wasteland. I now see why the author of that analysis was so confused as the ending does absolutely no justice to such a great game.
SPOILER BELOW
Basically, the Brotherhood decides it’s time to go wipe out the Enclave and unleashes a huge robot to decimate everything in its path. The first 10 minutes of the final sequence has you walking along behind this robot as it lays waste to Enclave soldiers and anything else in its way. The only challenge is staying close enough to be protected but not too close so that you get hit by debris from explosions or stepped on by the robot itself.
You then leave the robot outside and enter the gift shop of the Jefferson Memorial and kill a few Enclave soliders. You then make your way to the Rotunda. Inside you simply kill Colonel Autumn or send him away and then decide if you want to enter the purifier code, have someone else enter it, or do nothing and just watch everything explode. Everything fades to white and then the credits roll.
DUDE! I was really expecting some final large-scale battle where I had to unleash every weapon in my arsenal to survive and battle my way to the purifier. Why in the world would a huge robot come in an steal my thunder?? That’s BORING.
Fortunately I still have many side missions to go so I’ll be starting back up from a previous save and going back to what is truly the best part of this game – exploring, collecting, and killing stuff.
