Unlike Dark Alliance, this game has no faint patina of the AD&D rules-set (although the commonalities in the engine make me wonder if Fallout D20 is on the horizon; I think it'd probably work out well). You either hit, or are hit, or you aren't, or you don't. There's no blocking, and no special attacks. It is simply all about shooting things until they explode into gory showers.

Perhaps it lacks subtlety, but Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel has a certain irrelevant charm to its storyline and characters, combined with gameplay that I can only compare to crack rock. It's not Fallout 3, but try not to hold that against it.