Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition - Windows

I bought this collectors edition for the helmet with no intention of playing the game. Too many other great games out right now and Fallout 76 itself looks very mediocre. The helmet itself is amazing, huge and fully wearable with an adjustable frame inside like you would see on a construction hard hat. The plastic used for the eyes are a bit foggy, so hardcore users may want to replace that with something else. It is sturdy and well built but still light enough to be comfortable. It also has a cloth transition around the neck to help conceal any skin. The moving eye piece feels a bit flimsy so be careful with that. The map board and figurines are nothing special, just plastic army men type figurines. Bag is OK but I probably won’t use it. Not sure where I am going to stick that amazing helmet though it is almost too large. Took a star off because the game is lackluster and BestBuy shipped the entire thing in its retail box and it got all wet and dirty due to snow and bad weather. I probably won’t keep the massive box but would’ve been mad if I wanted to. I would only recommend this to hardcore fallout fans who want the toy and already have Pip Boy, lunch box, mini Nuke etc.

I'm a big fan of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls RPGs that Bethesda previously published. When this game was announced at E3, I was pretty apprehensive but figured that if the solo play was like they described it would be ok. I received my B.E.T.A code for the PC version and then waited. I had preloaded and when the day came that the PC servers went live, well I couldn't play. The preload had been deleted by their launcher and was downloading at a measly 2mb/sec. I should have cancelled my preorder then, but darn it I wanted that power helmet. Day 2 of PC BETA, I did finally login and went through the character creation hoops. Very little was customizable, but off I want into the WV wasteland. And after about three boring hours I turned it off. This continued for the next two rounds of the BETA availability and I was really close to cancelling but again I wanted that helmet. So the day before my copy was ready for pickup, they release the digital download version. I didn't think much of it at the time until I picked up my copy. Got home and took stuff out of box. Opened up the second steelbook (BB gave me one with my box) to find a digital code not a physical DVD. Really?? So I had to wait to get a code they could have emailed me when they released early? Anyway I fired up and played for another two hours until I built a camp (complete with turrets) only to be overrun by Protectrons. I rage quitted and have not logged in since. I hope that Bethesda will listen to fans this time. Minor bugs are one thing but this thing shipped as a broken mess with too many problems to list. To call this an RPG is an insult to good RPGs. I would not recommend anyone buy this for the full price. Oh wait they already cut the price a week after launch. Thanks Bethesda.

So the collectables in this were pretty cool. I loved the helmet, the little army men, everything. I was so excited for the game but it was just a buggy dud. Very disappointing for the Fallout franchise.

The last two games I've got the special editions and I wont again they lied about the bag you get to hold the helmet. It was supposed to be canvass, but its nylon. The one I got from best buy there were batteries in it already really badly beaten up ones. It came with new ones too. I don't know why it had battieries in it, but they are same brand and the ones that were prepackaged in the box.

I bought this as a christmas gift for my wife because she loves Fallout, but this game is a joke. It's not fun to play, the devs don't care about the players, and it's just a horrible experience. The only good thing about this version is the wearable helmet that came with it. Everything else was lies, like the canvas bag that wasn't made of canvas but rather some vinyl crap. Bethesda is going down in flames. They are a shallow shell of what they used to be.

Promised it would come with canvas bag, received nylon bag instead.

This game has flaws, most fallout games do, it's not ok for Bethesda to do what they did and not give customers a Canvas bag instead a Nylon bag, they've really lost trust of their fans, and the "compensation" is beyond insulting since it's only 500 in game credits which don't even give you much of a choice in purchase options. All that aside, as a game, this game does not make completing quests easy due to bugs, there are no NPCs who deliver decent dialog, only robots who act as vendors and trading is very poor, the only thing that does bring a smile and the only reason i'm giving this game 4 stars is because i enjoy gunplay no matter how laggy it can be, i enjoy building, and i enjoy meeting other players and them being very kind and trying to find some optimism in this game. The helmet is nice, very hard to see through but i like it as a decorative piece, the map barely glows in the dark, the little pieces that come in the baggy although cheap, are nice to have around my desk at work, the infamous nylon bag that you get and not the canvas bag, does what it does, it's a bag, i was never gonna use it for anything serious... Don't get the Tricentennial, or collectors edition UNLESS all you want is the helmet. The bonus skins you get in game are not worth an extra 20 USD. I really wish i had more friends who played this, but sadly nobody wants to touch this game due to the controversy, maybe wait a month or two before getting a copy for any patches.

Helmet is better made than most of the collectables generally included in these collections. Nice map. Terrible game. Would have been a GREAT single player game but they left out the NPC's and bogged you down with requirements such as CONSTANTLY needing to find food, water, meds...what was an optional play style in other games. And to make matters worse frustrated PVP players find the need to grief other players that just want to do quests (most of which are poorly set up). Nothing like someone jumping in front of you while crafting or throwing grenades at you when you ignore their antics. So if it's just about the game take a pass on this. If you just want the collectables...go for it.