Turn your copy of Fallout 3 into a mutant masterpiece with these 10 essential mods.
Giant
mutant geckos, plasma guns that dissolve your enemies, thunderstorms
and bullet time are just a few of the many additions made by this
collection of top updates. Used in combination, they can bring new life
to the Capital Wasteland and turn your copy of Fallout 3 into a
desperate fight for survival.
1. Fallout 3 Mod Manager
Wait! Step away from the mods! If you install them now you’ll have to
spend hours rummaging through the guts of Fallout 3′s file structure,
changing .ini files and hitting it with a stick to make it work. For
the sake of your sanity, make sure you have the Fallout 3
mod manager
installed first. It gives you complete control of which mods are active
and does all of the fiddly file altering stuff for you. The load order
of the mods you have installed is important, too, so it’s a good idea
to check each mod’s readme file for details of where they feature on
the list.
2. Fallout 3 Wanderer’s Edition
This huge overhaul turns Fallout 3 into a survivalist nightmare.
Enemies are tougher, weapons are more powerful, ammo is scarce and
you’ll have to eat, drink and sleep to stay alive. Fortunately, you’re
given a host of new skills to help you cope, including the perfectly
implemented, if unexplained ability to use your AP points to enter
bullet time. Depending on how high your charisma is you can also
recruit up to 5 followers, and kit them out to form your own personal
roaming death squad.
Wanderer’s Edition
changes the game a lot, but almost all of the new features can be
tweaked or turned off completely, so you can simply discard updates you
don’t like. This mod is especially effective when used in combination
with Mart’s superb Mutant Mod. This mod won’t work without
Fallout Script Extender, so be sure to grab that first.
3. Mart’s Mutant Mod
Do you miss the cute gecko things from Fallout 2? Do you miss shooting
them in their stupid, lizard faces? If the answer is yes then this is
the mod
for you. It adds dozens of new species of creature to the Capital
Wasteland and extensively revamps their AI. Many monsters will now hunt
each other and smarter enemies will loot corpses for better weapons.
Monster size has also been randomised, so you might occasionally find
yourself up against a twenty-foot long scorpion, or a house-sized Super
Mutant. In an earlier build, the mod’s creator, Martigen, found that
the wandering traders kept getting killed by the aggressive new
wildlife, and has given them a fearsome retinue of power-armoured
mercenaries as added protection.
4. Fallout 3 Reanimated
Once you notice the animation flaws in Fallout 3, you can’t unnotice
them. From the rigid idle poses to the way soldiers seem to break their
own wrists when aiming assault rifles, there are dozens of immersion
breaking niggles throughout the game. Professional animator, Alendor,
decided to hone his skills and fix one of his favourite games at the
same time with this mod. It’s a work in progress, but the
changes made so far are so good it’s already worth a download.
5. Project Beauty
Fallout 3′s NPCs are a huge improvement on Oblivion’s potato-faced
citizens, but many still linger uncomfortably in the uncanny valley.
Project Beauty
replaces many of the faces with carefully tailored high resolution
versions designed to fix unnatural complexions, add detail and
generally make everyone look more like people, and less like weird,
plastic-faced Autons.
6. NMC’s Texture Pack
NeilMC is the very definition of a dedicated modder. Over the course of
a year he has single-handedly replaced almost every environmental
texture in the game with a new, high resolution version. The resulting
texture pack
makes the Capital Wasteland a vastly more beautiful place, while still
retaining Bethesda’s original art direction. The pack comes in several
sizes, so be sure to download the version that best suits the power of
your PC.
7. FOOK 2
The first Fallout Overhaul Kit was a ramshackle arrangement of different updates, moulded into one solid gold mod.
FOOK 2
improves on every aspect of the first overhaul, adding over 150 new
weapons, 30 new items of clothing and 80 odd shiny new textures for
existing items. Factions and NPCs will now use a much greater range of
weaponry and the new clothing adds even more variety to the wasteland.
FOOK 2 manages to enhance the core Fallout 3 experience and bring more
variety and colour to the wasteland, without changing the game you
love. If you want to combine the huge item update of FOOK2 with the
total overhaul of Wanderer’s edition, then be sure to grab
this patch to make them play well together.
8. Fellout
Sometimes the smallest changes can have a huge effect.
Fellout
removes the mucky green smog that hangs over the Capital Wasteland,
replacing it with bright, arid sunshine. The beautiful new sunsets
alone make this worth a download. A word of warning, though: With
Fellout installed, night time truly is dark. Be sure to make use of the
upgraded pip boy torch or the night vision modes supplied in FOOK2 and
Fallout Wanderer’s Edition, or just hide indoors when night falls.
9. Energy Visuals Enhanced and Energy Weapons Advanced
Nothing says “please stop attacking me” like a white hot death ray to
your enemy’s face. Modder ‘Your Evil Twin’ realises this, and has
revamped energy weapon special effects to make them look and feel even
more devastating. Spectacular new critical hit animations can flay the
flesh from your enemy’s bones, or dissolve them into a cloud of glowing
green bubbles.
Energy Weapons Enhanced,
by the same author, adds dozens of excellent new energy weapons, from
energy bolt sniper rifles to plasma cannons, giving you the perfect
excuse to enjoy the new effects.
10. Enhanced Weather
The calamitous thunderstorms added by
Enhanced Weather
can make even a casual stroll sound like the end of the world. Snow
storms and radioactive rain have also been added along with a dynamic
weather system that makes the slow transition between different types
of weather feel realistic. You even get a stealth bonus from the new
thunderstorms, your enemies will be so unsettled by the lightning
they’ll never see you coming
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