For the first time, we are given the ability to expand a fairly vast number of settlements, giving you the choie to install security, add stores, build homes and - most importantly - attract settlers to populate them.
Bizarrely, as player choice is restricted where decision-making is concerned, it is expanded tremendously in another area: the workshop. That didn't really inconvenience me as I tend to play do-gooders on my first playthrough, but I do find it disappointing that the range of moral choice available to players in the earlier games has been significantly reduced. As many people have pointed out, your choices tend to range from 'very kind' to 'reluctantly kind'. It's very hard to play an evil character in 'Fallout 4'. Whilst I have praise for certain character-related modifications made in this game, there are also some problems. It's also in the earliest moments of the game that you realise that your character can talk! Bethesda's long-awaited decision to give player characters a voice worked rather well, and I hope they expand on it in the future. Bethesda successfully place this game firmly within the context of a nuclear apocalypse, taking us closer to the initial devastation than ever before. The introduction was great, and I'd place it leagues above the first scenes of 'Fallout: New Vegas'. Unless Bethesda pulled off the best game of the year, there'd be a lot of criticism. 'Fallout 3' was one of the best games of the decade, and 'New Vegas' was another excellent title. I think we may have been holding 'Fallout 4' up to a rather harsh set of expectations.
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