Bought for my 21 year old son and he loves it. He doesn't play many video games now that he is older but this was a hit with him. He is hard to buy for so this was the perfect choice

But who gives a crap about ‘beautiful’ when the game beneath the facade is so damned good? Fallout 4 sets its sights high and brings home the bacon. It’s not just the sheer scale and quality that makes this a must-have RPG. The complex systems Bethesda has created all overlap in a mesmerising fashion, creating an experience that is both huge and beautifully tailored at the same time. The lessons the company has learned from two decades of game making are all brought to bear in a tour de force of role playing wonder. You’d have to have an irradiated brain to not make this your Christmas pick. There’s never been a better time to pop on your Pip-boy and go out in search of adventure.

A world so large it makes RL look small; RPG and FPS gameplay happily married; Questing of the highest quality;

Not the prettiest game you’ll encounter this Christmas; Radroaches aren’t the only bugs to worry about;

A world so large it makes RL look small; RPG and FPS gameplay happily married; Questing of the highest quality;

Not the prettiest game you’ll encounter this Christmas; Radroaches aren’t the only bugs to worry about;

New crafting and base building mechanics and a densely packed wasteland, Fallout 4 is the best game in the series

Bethesda can usually be counted on to publish high-quality DLC for the Fallout games. Since Fallout 3 , most of the add-ons feature entirely new areas off of the main campaign map, complete with new storylines to follow.

Robot companions' sassy dialogue

Not enough new weapons

Fallout 4 received an extraordinary amount of hype leading up to its release, only to have all that excitement taper out thanks to bugs and a gutted RPG system. Despite these nagging flaws I'm still easily transported to a post-apocalyptic Commonwealth, exploring and scavenging to the golden tunes...

Exploring the Commonwealth; Far better combat; Settlements are promising start

Gutted role-playing system; Technical problems (plus slow updates for local region

Most of the way this huge roleplaying-shooter game works is carried over from its excellent predecessors, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. It is the Skyrim to Fallout 3's Oblivion, if you will – it iterates on the previous game's already amazing systems, and it's similarly dense with locations to...

I waited until XMas day to get my copy of Fallout 4 and while I have struggled to get the time to play it, with all the festivities going on, I still managed 22 hours of gameplay and this accounts for only 9% of the game completed!

"Where to begin?" it's the age-old Fallout question. Not only does it apply to the game – you could pursue the immediately engaging main storyline, any number of the distracting side-quests, clear out a dungeon or acquire all the companions and power armour you can – but it of course also applies to...

Fallout 4 is here and it's now time for this Christmas 2015 heavyweight to enter the ring, facing off against the likes of Assassins Creed Syndicate , Star Wars Battlefront, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 (review is coming once the PC version is fixed), and the newly released Just Cause 3 to name but a...