[Mike Bracken]

Wow, very good review. I'm with Brad in thinking you could trim it a little (oh, the irony of Bracken telling someone to trim a review...that could be one of the seven signs of the apocalypse.)

"While publicising this title, Bethesda distanced themselves from the idea that Fallout 3 was Oblivion with guns, which is funny because that is pretty much how it plays"

I just started playing the game, and I couldn't agree more. I'm actually sort of disappointed that the whole game to this point feels like a re-skinned Oblivion with guns...

"a large one in Fallout is that skills are dolled out from a central kitty"

I think you want "doled out" here and not "dolled".

There was one other thing I was going to point out, but I'll be damned if I can find it or remember what it was now...