[Wired] Bleak Fallout 3 Dazzles With Great Depression

Fallout 3 depressed the crap out of me, but I’m not sure this is a bad thing. Indeed, it’s probably a great thing. The best works of tragedy seek to inspire that punched-in-the-gut feeling. I don’t read George Orwell’s 1984 or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road — or view Goya’s The Disasters of War — so that I can feel warm and fuzzy. The point is to trigger reflection through pain: At its best, Fallout 3 makes you think about the consequences of war.