Eh, not for me. Some cool-in-theory additions that just never coagulate into anything that bracing. You can build your own robot companion now, but also who really cares? There's already a sizeable bloat of followers in this game as it stands - of which you can only travel with one at a time - and some of them are already more interesting robots, so this feature seems superfluous to me. Ada is about as generic a companion as they come, one who breaks down in like three seconds and has some occasionally infuriating movement. Story missions are essentially Borderlands-style enemy spam set in some truly horribly designed interiors - and let's just say Fallout 4 doesn't really have the most adept combat to account for it. The narrative itself is unengaging and rote. But as far as exercises in empty style go, you could do worse than this. The Rust Devils look incredibly badass, and the Mechanist armor is pretty cool. It's competent but I also resoundingly did not care about anything happening here.

Reviewed on May 20, 2023


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