An Amazon.com Exclusive, the Fallout 3: Survival Edition, is the ultimate Fallout 3 package that includes a life-size replica of the Pip-Boy 3000, the wrist-mounted device worn by characters in-game. The Pip-Boy 3000 has been painstakingly recreated and modified for real world display as a digital clock. In addition to the Pip-Boy 3000, the Survival Edition will include all of the items from the Fallout 3 Collector's Edition including the Fallout 3 game, a customized, metal Vault-Tec lunch box, 5" Vault Boy Bobblehead, The Art of Fallout 3 hardcover book, and The Making of Fallout 3 DVD.

According to Vlatko Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks, "The Survival Edition offers gamers the unique opportunity to own a piece of video game history along with a collection of limited edition items - it's the definitive Fallout 3 package."

From the creators of award-winning Oblivion, Fallout 3 features one of the most realized game worlds ever made. Create any kind of character you want and explore the open wastes of post-apocalyptic Washington, D.C. Every minute is a fight for survival as you encounter Super Mutants, Ghouls, Raiders, and other dangers of the Wasteland. Prepare for the future. The third game in the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. Combining the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction gone terribly wrong, with the kitschy naivety of American 1950s nuclear propaganda, Fallout 3 will satisfy both players familiar with the popular first two games in its series as well as those coming to the franchise for the first time.

The Cold War goes Next-Gen

Welcome to the nation's capital. View larger.

The Brotherhood of Steel is a powerful ally. View larger.

Customize characters with your Pip-Boy. View larger.

The optional turn-based VATS mode. View larger.

Key Features:

• Limitless Freedom - Take in the sights and sounds of the vast Capital Wasteland. See the great monuments of the United States lying in post-apocalyptic ruin. You make the choices that define you and change the world. Just keep an eye on your Rad Meter.
• Experience S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Vault-Tec engineers bring you the latest in human ability simulation - the SPECIAL Character System. Utilizing new breakthroughs in points-based ability representation, SPECIAL affords unlimited customization of your character. Also included are dozens of unique skills and perks to choose from, each with a dazzling variety of effects
• Fantastic New Views - The wizards at Vault-Tec have done it again. No longer constrained to just one view, experience the world from 1st or 3rd person perspective. Customize your view with the touch of a button.
• The Power of Choice. - Feeling like a dastardly villain today, or a Good Samaritan? Pick a side or walk the line, as every situation can be dealt with in many different ways. Talk out your problems in a civilized fashion, or just flash your Plasma Rifle.
• Blast 'Em Away With V.A.T.S. -Even the odds in combat with the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System for your Pip-Boy Model 3000. V.A.T.S. allows you to pause time in combat, target specific body parts on your target, queue up attacks, and let Vault-Tec take out your aggression for you. Rain death and destruction in an all-new cinematic presentation featuring gory dismemberments and spectacular explosions.
• Mind-Blowing Artificial Intelligence - At Vault-Tec, we realize that the key to reviving civilization after a global nuclear war is people. Our best minds pooled their efforts to produce an advanced version of Radiant AI, America's First Choice in Human Interaction Simulation. Facial expressions, gestures, unique dialog, and lifelike behavior are brought together with stunning results by the latest in Vault-Tec technology.
• Eye-Popping Prettiness - Witness the harsh realities of nuclear fallout rendered like never before in modern super-deluxe HD graphics. From the barren Wasteland, to the danger-filled offices and metro tunnels of DC, to the hideous rotten flesh of a mutant's face.

• The Fallout 3 video game
• An Amazon.com exclusive life-size replica of the Pip-Boy 3000, the wrist-mounted device worn by characters in the game.
• Vault Boy Bobblehead: Your very own Vault Boy collector's item is direct from Vault-Tec
• The Art of Fallout 3: Features nearly 100 pages of never-before seen concept art and commentary from Bethesda Game Studios artists.
• The Making of Fallout 3 DVD: An exclusive, inside look at Bethesda Game Studios and the team behind the game.
• Vault-Tec Lunch Box: A fully customized metal lunch box in which the entire package will arrive.

You DO want the game - it's great post-apocalyptic stuff! You do NOT want this bundle - the clock is shoddily made and will break as soon as you get it out of the box (mine died in a week).

The Pipboy clock that comes with this set eats batteries so quickly they should be paying me to use it. It takes 3 triple-A batteries but can't seem to stay operational for more than about a week before needing replacements. Also, the clock is a piece of cheap plastic with seams that don't even line up correctly.

What a joke. I feel lick a sucker having paid so much for so little. Don't make the same mistake as I did. Get yourself a generic copy of the game.

Game: 5 stars
Extras: 1 star
A collection of cheap trash that is embarrassing to say that I own.

So by purchasing this 'amazon exclusive' item, you are somehow saving money from the list price of who may i ask? It's a little misleading to say that your saving 15% when there is only one seller.

Come on Amazon! No problems with any of your products, then BAM!
DO NOT BUY the "EXCLUSIVE" Fallout 3! The game is amazing but the Amazon.com "Exclusive" is not worth the extra cash!
I ordered the "Exclusive" Gears of War Lancer and saw that the Fallout 3 had an exclusive offer also! Order that one quickly! So the Lancer for Gears of War comes in the mail and I love the way it looks, but what happens when I pull the trigger? Nothing!(thank you for working with NECA to get that fixed and for the $10 credit) Exclusive Fallout 3 comes in the mail. Awesome PIPboy 3000 love the way it looks! Put in the batteries and its dead in a day. Maybe its the batteries that came with it, put in a fresh set... dead within a day! Whats up with the quality control? Amazon.com can't you work something out with the company that made these too? $50 dollars for a piece of plastic that doesnt even work is pretty sad...
DON'T buy the "Exclusive" just get the regular version!
And please Amazon.com, try out your products before sending them out to your customers, especially if they are suppose to be "exclusives". It just makes you guys look bad.

First of all, there's not much reason to bother with the Survival Edition. The clock is sort of neat, but chances are it won't work or be painted in the first place. Mine is, and works, but it eats (3) AA batteries every few days. Even a $5 Wal-Mart clearance clock has an alarm, if not a radio, etc. This in person, however, is absolute rock-bottom quality.

As for the game, it seems quite good at first, but fans of previous "true" Fallout games will see that it too falls far short of the mark, and others will as well. Replayability, perfect atmosphere, engaging storyline, quality voice acting and memorable characters... everything truly vital to "Fallout" is gone. There's even a "vampire" den now. I learned to like Oblivion, but this is just Oblivion done poorly, with a borrowed face.

Oh, and not to mention that it uses the same engine as Oblivion, which STILL has the "micro-stuttering" regardless of how well your computer can handle it. I'm a programmer. I know these things. ;) Bethesda still refuses to address the issue since Oblivion. They began by using a BROKEN game engine!

The skills and perks are nerfed and altered, and traits are non-existant. The wasteland seems pleasingly barren at first, but eventually you realize it's just... empty. The proper atmosphere just isn't there, and I find myself wanting to play the old games that capped at 640x480 resolution! The wonderful "random encounters" from previous games are now mild at best and occur only at preset locations. So much for random. Voice acting quality isn't horrible, but the fact that they use only a few voice actors for the entire game IS. Every ghoul has the same voice, as does every "old man", etc. etc. etc.

You can also heal or repair everything by pausing the "real world", and heal instantly by loading up on food or even just water. Last time I checked, food and drink don't heal you. They just keep you from dying. Or just take a 1 hour nap to heal and restore all of your horribly maimed limbs!

The weapons and equipment set is very small and lost nearly all flavor of previous games. There's no flavor of random events to change it up either. No lost ammo, weapon failures. Only a "jam" that makes you cock a gun twice when you reload. The combat balancing and calculations are fatally flawed as well, Ex: different calculations via VATS; even human enemies can take 50 to 100+ minigun bullets to the face at point-blank range without dying; and get this.. bullet damage depends on skill-- Because everyone knows that the way you pull a trigger directly effects muzzle energy and muzzle velocity!

No... bullets should be hit or miss, and the game is a definite "miss" for Fallout series. The only way to even moderately salvage things is with 3rd party complete overhaul mods - Which don't really even exist yet. Hopefully there will still be enough old fans who aren't disgusted, and will want to re-create the game the way it's SUPPOSED to be. We'll see.