Conrad Zimmerman said:
It's not the game I wanted in many, many ways, but I cannot deny that it is a soundly designed game that does the most important things in Fallout right.
Soundly designed, yes, but a minimum of competence achieved through rather heavy handed methods is not something that should get 9/10.
It doesn't really do Fallout things right, since the writing is done by Bethesda again(they aren't particularly famous for being good at it, don't want to spoil anything though), and the whole SPECIAL thing becomes much less meaningful.
It doesn't really do the Gamebryo/Bethesda thing right either, since modding tools are going to only come in a few months, and the game's core design choices prevent anything substantial from being made.
It's lacking in pretty much all technical aspects as well, with plenty of the usual glitches and bugs, some of which date back to TES: Oblivion, and graphical fidelity from half a decade ago.