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Video Games: Fallout 3: Amazon.com Exclusive Survival Edition
Date: Friday, 21 November, 2008 :: 06:01
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Fallout 3: Amazon.com Exclusive Survival Edition
Brand: Bethesda
List Price: USD $119.99
Price: USD $119.99
Product Group: videogames
Manufacturer: Bethesda
Format: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2008-10-28
Studio: Bethesda
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Editorial Review:
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Average Customer Review: 
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Buy the collector's edition instead.
Date: 2008-11-18 - 
Comment:
The one item that separates the survival edition from the collector's edition is the pipboy clock and unfortunately, this clock is a miserable piece of junk.
It is built of a substandard molded green plastic, it looks cheap and it feels cheap. Dollar store type cheap. It is very prone to breaking under even the most modest levels of use.
It has no features, not even an alarm function. The are only two things that can be done with it. Set the time and display the time.
It does also come with problems. For many users at least one of the buttons used for setting the time does not work. In addition, they draw a lot of power, enough to kill 3 fresh AA battery in a single week, which is ridiculous considering all it does is display the time on an LCD screen.
If you want the game, save yourself some money and buy the collectors edition.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: GREAT game, HORRIBLE edition... fellow fanboys, you've been HAD
Date: 2008-11-17 -
Comment: The game is everything I hoped it would be, a 5 out of 5 from a guy that loved Fallout 1 and 2(Wasteland for that matter) and wasn't so big on Oblivion. It's a bit moody in terms of crashes, but the game saves so often for you, even if you forget to save and crash, you won't have lost much progress. After the patch a few days ago, I haven't had one crash.
The Bobblehead is perfectly good. Paint isn't great, but overall decent workmanship.
The lunchbox workmanship is a little short of the old 70's lunchboxes you got as kids. Don't imagine most people will use it as such. If you don't, it will pretty much last as long as you'd want it to.
The PipBoy clock(the only difference between this and the collectors edition), as so many others has stated, is TOTAL JUNK. One of the pegs for the mounting base broke just trying to put it together. The batteries died in it 4 days after assembling. Rechargeables don't provide enough voltage to even barely run the clock. So I suspect the new energizers I just put in it to last maybe a week. In an age where 2 AA batteries will power a wireless mouse for 4 months, this is unacceptable and pointless; should have made it a plug-in clock.
For the additional 50 dollars that this Pipboy raised the price, I expected it to be made of at least epoxy resin(tough stuff, but cheap; many toys are made of it) and have painted some detail into it! If you've ever bought a collectors edition item from McFarlane toys(Spawn, The Crow, Janis Joplin, etc) you'd know what I mean. They can create strong, well made and detailed collectible figures for under $10 retail. This Pipboy is a Happy Meal Toy. Without the happiness.
Face it, fellow fanboys! Amazon paid $3 for these units, charged us $50 dollars for them, and cleaned up.
It's not likely I'll be buying directly from Amazon, again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: The game is great, the clock is junk.
Date: 2008-11-12 - 
Comment: The game is great. It is in DESPERATE need of patching though so save often! Mine crashes out at least one to three times every 4-6 hours of play. Another issue you may have is certain important NPC's will randomly die. I've seen this twice so far. Other than that the game is GREAT.
In this edition, the bobblehead, book and lunchbox are all nice but the "clock" is a piece of junk. Don't expect this thing to work at all. Expect this thing to just sit somewhere in your house looking nifty. It would be nice if Bethesda would do something about the problems people are having but I've seen no effort of the sort. I'll probably shy away from OMGSUPERDELUXE9000!!1! editions from them in the future.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: The game is awesome, the clock is crap.
Date: 2008-11-12 - 
Comment: If you want this game, do yourself a favor and either just get the regular edition, or the collector edition if you want the bobblehead (which is really cool, btw) If you DO break down and get the Survival Edition, be prepared to own a clock that will DIE less than 2 weeks after you get it. It's NOT WORTH THE EXTRA MONEY!!! This is my first and LAST "Amazon Exclusive" collector thing. Thanks Amazon!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Pipboy clock already broken - don't waste your money
Date: 2008-11-09 -
Comment: Much like everyone else, my complaint is about the clock. Yes, the injection molded plasic is cheap, and the design is kind of lousy, but I was more or less OK with it. Within a week, the clock display died. Tried switching batteries, and its still dead. It's not exactly dead, but its lost about 98% of its glow. Presumably its still working, but you can only make out a faint light in a dark room, making it useless.
Went to my friend's place, and his had died already as well. Not only are the models themselves cheap and poorly made, even just the clock mechanism is junk. Sad waste of $50. I could have another new game for that kind of money. I hope Bethesda gets on this and does something to make gamers whole regarding this matter, because I am officially pissed until they do.
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Accessories:
Fallout 3 Collector's Edition: Prima Official Game Guide
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