i really like the painted-on lights and bloomy tones of this, it works surprisingly well with the low-res 360 textures to make the world feel both worn-down and irradiated.

vats pausing time makes even small encounters feel long in a good way,, it's almost turn-based in how it becomes about managing numbers and bars. and it never stops being fun to see a bullet take off a guy's head in slow motion

the perks and skills kinda suck. every time i leveled up i felt like i was taking the "least underwhelming" option. but they designed a few neat quests, like the replicated man and tranquility lane.