Fallout 3 is not an RPG. You have your numbers and stats but you almost can't decide anything beside some side content story branches here and there. That's not something necesarily bad, but it's clearly lacking compared to other Bethesda games. You always are constantly on the verge of death, needing healing items or, especially, ammo. This is fun most of the time in games and here it does help creating the setting and some interesting situations, but the problem is the weight mechanic. You are carrying too much weight all the time. In a game where ammo is so limited it's recommended to play changing constantly between types of weapons. And you have to carry so many different weapons all the time. It's not only an annoying issue per se, having to constantly open and closing your Pipboy to change weapons is also quite annoying. At least ammo weighs zero. Thankfully.

Beside that, it's, again, a Bethesda game within its exploration. Everywhere you go, anything you see in the distance can be an interesting landmark and you'll find yourself making detours all the time even when you already had made up your mind to focus on the main story. Even if it's a wasteland, it's not just that. It's not empty at all.

I, tho, didn't like the metro gimmick at all. I mean, it looks like an open world game, but it really isn't, you have to get in the metro to access other areas. To be honest, an underground metro in a post post-apocalypse setting like is Fallout is something amazing in theory. Looks scary. Feels scary. It's an awesome idea. But it falls quickly to deliver what it meant and transforms into something just very annoying to traverse just to get to some other new place. Why can't I just go where I want or need in a straight line and deal with the consecuences of my actions by myself without having to lose a lot of time having to get inside the labyrinthic underground metro... That was the least I liked about this game...

But oh well, at the end of the day, Fallout 3 has quite a charm, despite its flaws. It's a game worth trying out.