ReviewsAttack of the Fanboy - 2.5/5
Fallout 76 is a bold experiment with one of gaming’s biggest and most beloved franchises. Unfortunately the experiment seems like a failure so far. Bugs and glitches are everywhere, but worse is that the core principles of design just don’t function the way they seem like they should.
https://attackofthefanboy.com/reviews/f ... 76-review/Just Push Start - 3.5/5
Whether swapping NPC conversations for other players works is a bit subjective, though the change is not as severe a detriment to the experience as expected. While the roots of Fallout 76 are firmly in Fallout 4 the final gameplay experience is quite different and so there's no guarantee that fans of that game will enjoy it. Fallout 76 is worthy of recommendation with two caveats. You have to go in expecting a light multiplayer survival game in an interesting setting, rather than a deep story-focused role-playing game. On top of this, Fallout 76 is a game that really is better with friends, as that is the real replacement for the NPC dialogue in the world – if you're going in as a solo player you might come away dissatisfied.
https://www.justpushstart.com/2018/11/f ... 76-review/The Sixth Axis - 3
Fallout 76 had a lot to say when it was revealed. It was multiplayer, it had the largest world of any Fallout, it was going to be fun. The trouble is that it just doesn't work, the world is too big and empty, and the quest design as uninspired as it gets. If the only way for a game to be entertaining is by having your friends make jokes about it as you journey together, then it has failed at one of the things that most games should be. It has failed at being fun, it has failed at being entertaining in its own right. If you want to hang out with some friends in an a post-apocalypse, then just go to a pub and watch the news.
https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2018/11/16 ... 76-review/Softpedia - 6
With some more time and more inspired gameplay design, it could have been a much better experience. Right now, unfortunately, its great world feels like a missed opportunity that's mostly not fun, only in very few scenarios and for very few people. Bethesda proved with The Elder Scrolls Online that it can turn things around but 76 may require some sweeping changes until it's ready to be recommended to others.
https://www.softpedia.com/reviews/games ... 3836.shtmlGadgets 360 - 5
Hopefully, Bethesda reboots Fallout 76 like it did with The Elder Scrolls Online. Right now though, the game is hard to recommend to anyone but the most faithful of Fallout fans.
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/reviews/ ... ew-1948639Currently 56% on Metacritic -
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/fallout-76Currently 54% on Open Critic -
https://opencritic.com/game/6227/fallout-76?tab=1Reviews in progressGamespot
I'll continue to play the game with the intention of finishing the campaign, a good portion of the side quests, and getting involved in end-game content. This review will be updated and finalized when all that happens. But at this early stage, I feel like the only reason I'm enjoying the game as much as I am is because of an existing fondness for the Fallout series, not because of anything that can be distinctly attributed to Fallout 76.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fallo ... 0-6463321/IGN
I’ve just hit level 25 and I’m still discovering new enemies, monsters, creatures, and nightmares I’ve never seen in a Fallout game. Which is great, because I was concerned that Fallout 76 was going to be an easy list of chores and places to see.
https://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/11/16/ ... -76-reviewPC Gamer
For great stretches of time I'm having a lot of fun in Fallout 76. It's a huge, interesting, comically violent world to inhabit. I'm not really invested the main quest, but several side quests have been intriguing, and ignoring quests and just exploring is rewarding, too. Bugs and optimization and lack of options aside (and that's quite frankly a lot to set aside), I'm having a good time. It's a huge, busy world full of diversions and distractions.
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-review/US Gamer
Right now, Fallout 76 feels like a game I can occasionally dive into and find that zen in looting and scrapping. That's what I play survival games for, that slow burn of reconstituting the world in your image. Fallout 76 isn't bereft of that feeling, but it also goes out of its way to put roadblocks in my way. Perhaps as I get farther in, those roadblocks will lessen. [15 hour impressions]
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/fallou ... mpressionsDestructoid
This is why I'm ultimately enjoying Fallout 76. Yes, the game's systems push back every opportunity they get and that's oftentimes frustrating. This is certainly the entry that strays furthest from what people loved about Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. But Fallout has created a universe where every region's history is worth learning. It holds true for West Virginia, even if I can't shake the feeling that this will be the least memorable of Fallout's stories. Well, unless you and your friends create your own memories.
https://www.destructoid.com/review-in-p ... 1390.phtmlMetro Gamecentral
Fallout 76 is peak Bethesda: shonky graphics, dumb artificial intelligence, fluctuating frame rate, and an insect house full of bugs.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/15/fallout- ... y-8142381/