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In my experience, when FPSes come out on both the XBox360 and the PC, it's better to get the PC version (assuming your rig can handle it).
Keyboard and mouse beats out joypad controller every time. In Bioshock, which I've completed on both XB and PC, the XBox aiming was so poor that they had to institute an autoaim feature, and that really disrupted the balance among weapons. The Pistol in the XBox version was much less useful than in the PC version, simply because in the PC version it was much easier to get headshots.
For Fallout3, the FPS element has been ironed out a bit by the introduction of the VATS system, but that's only a partial respite. Once your Action Points run out, you're still going to be fighting in real time, and then it will be harder to aim for the head on the XBox than on PC. Even in VATS, it is sometimes frustrating to try to get the correct enemy target body part in focus. In the PC version you just point and click and you're done.
(For what it's worth, I haven't completed the game on the PC version yet.)
Still, I'd say the gap between the XBox and PC versions is much less than it was for Bioshock. Bioshock was very combat intensive, but Fallout3 has somewhat more talking and quest based interaction. So you won't find yourself fighting every second of the game.
Keyboard and mouse beats out joypad controller every time. In Bioshock, which I've completed on both XB and PC, the XBox aiming was so poor that they had to institute an autoaim feature, and that really disrupted the balance among weapons. The Pistol in the XBox version was much less useful than in the PC version, simply because in the PC version it was much easier to get headshots.
For Fallout3, the FPS element has been ironed out a bit by the introduction of the VATS system, but that's only a partial respite. Once your Action Points run out, you're still going to be fighting in real time, and then it will be harder to aim for the head on the XBox than on PC. Even in VATS, it is sometimes frustrating to try to get the correct enemy target body part in focus. In the PC version you just point and click and you're done.
(For what it's worth, I haven't completed the game on the PC version yet.)
Still, I'd say the gap between the XBox and PC versions is much less than it was for Bioshock. Bioshock was very combat intensive, but Fallout3 has somewhat more talking and quest based interaction. So you won't find yourself fighting every second of the game.
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