Customer Rating: 
Summary: Game rocks, Pipboy replica broken
Comment: I have the same issue with the clock failure as everyone else. The game is awesome, the Pipboy replica is the problem. I also hope Bethesda does something to correct the situation.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Buy the Collector's Edition Instead
Comment: The only difference between this edition and the Collector's Edition is the Pip Boy, which is junk. The full run of these Pip Boys has a functional life of 6-7 days. Notice the reviews here are filled with complaints about the Pip Boy. It is powered by three AA batteries and is a simple digital clock with no other functions (alarm, date, etc.). I was one of the lucky ones, in that the display on mine didn't start to dim until the fourth day. Now it's broken and is lousy to display because you can see the un-powered clock LED's behind the face reading 88:88. It costs $20 for round-trip shipping to send it in for warranty replacement, but from what I'm reading the full run of these is like this, not just a single batch. I'm not that excited to send this in for warranty replacement just to get another one with another 6-7 days of usefulness.
I hope Amazon will let me return just the Pip-Boy and refund the difference. That's yet to be seen.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Shoddy Clock Not Worth Extra Price
Comment: The game is fantastic. The lunchbox and bobblehead are neat. Those points have been made very well in other reviews of them. This review focuses on the one item exclusive to the Survival Edition, the PipBoy Clock. The clock is a poor product, plain and simple, and not worth $10 extra, much less the $50 over the Collector's Edition price.
Performance is terrible. The clock doesn't work unless you use some redneck engineering on it with aluminum foil inserts placed between the positive battery point and the positive contact plate. Once you get the batteries in and actually get power to the display, setting the time can itself is cumbersome. The three buttons provided are often times unresponsive, requiring a good deal of wiggling at times to get the display to change as desired. The display, even with fresh batteries, is very dim, very hard to interpret unless the room it's in is very dark.
In terms of power consumption, it devours batteries, consuming three AA batteries every two weeks, sometimes sooner. In comparison, the old one-way pager I carry for my job, which has an alarm, storage for phone numbers and time received, and makes some rudimentary sounds if desired, uses one AAA battery every MONTH or so. This clock doesn't even have an alarm, and uses much more power for it.
Aesthetically, the clock is a mixed bag. The overall design and look match the Fallout universe exactly. My example, however, arrived unpainted, looking nothing like I expected it to look. I know the technology and "look and feel" of the game series is "used retro science fiction", but this clock is as drab as drab gets, with no logos or anything to maintain that sense of having something form the Fallout world, even if it's a fake. Further, the clock was at one point supposed to be wearable like the PipBoy used in the game. That too, has been nullified by poor craftsmanship.
Furthermore, the level of customer service provided for this clock from amazon.com and Bethesda SoftWorks, the game's license holder, is incredibly underwhelming. For one, in order to get any warranty work done on it, you must send in money, and the clock, to some company in California that no one's ever heard of. So for yet more money you lose possession of a broken clock that originally only cost you $50. Compare this sort of "service" to the defective Gears of War 2 Amazon.com Exclusive Lancer. When the NECA Lancer had its own battery issue, similar to the one described above, NECA and amazon.com worked to fix it somehow. NECA sent out replacement parts, for free, in a timely manner if you contacted them. amazon.com handed out $10 coupons good for the next purchase on ANYTHING they sell. Wither that level of customer service from amazon.com and Bethesda SoftWorks for this quasi-defective clock?
All in all, SAVE YOUR MONEY. The Collectors' Edition gives you so much more value, with the lunchbox and bobblehead being the best collectibles this year. With incredibly poor workmanship, lack of attention to detail, unknown warranty service from a company whose reliability can't be ascertained, and overall price point, this clock simply is not worth the extra $50 price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: who knew the post-apocalyptic world could be so fun?
Comment: as soon as you step out of the vault, you have this overwhelming sensation of "ohhhh boy".
graphics are very well done.
a.i. is entertaining at times with bad guys actually going back and getting weapons after you shoot the ones they have out of their hands.
and my favorite part,
watching the head of an enemy rolling down the hill in front of you after you hit him with your sniper rifle.
a must get for fans of the original series.
Customer Rating:
Summary: PIP boy Survival clock edition
Comment: Not very satisfied with the survival edition, it did come with a great game and a poorly built PIPBoy clock. The clock is not that good. I purchased a couple editions for gifts and they all keep going dead overnight. They all last about 1 day and need new batteries again - forget that!! Seems to be a problem with the clocks draining the batteries down over night. I suggest just buying the cheaper edition.
- The game is great. You definitly need a guide book. The problem is that it does end and you would have to start over again. Not as good as Oblivion. Oblivion is much more colorful and happier.
Summary: Game rocks, Pipboy replica broken
Comment: I have the same issue with the clock failure as everyone else. The game is awesome, the Pipboy replica is the problem. I also hope Bethesda does something to correct the situation.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Buy the Collector's Edition Instead
Comment: The only difference between this edition and the Collector's Edition is the Pip Boy, which is junk. The full run of these Pip Boys has a functional life of 6-7 days. Notice the reviews here are filled with complaints about the Pip Boy. It is powered by three AA batteries and is a simple digital clock with no other functions (alarm, date, etc.). I was one of the lucky ones, in that the display on mine didn't start to dim until the fourth day. Now it's broken and is lousy to display because you can see the un-powered clock LED's behind the face reading 88:88. It costs $20 for round-trip shipping to send it in for warranty replacement, but from what I'm reading the full run of these is like this, not just a single batch. I'm not that excited to send this in for warranty replacement just to get another one with another 6-7 days of usefulness.
I hope Amazon will let me return just the Pip-Boy and refund the difference. That's yet to be seen.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Shoddy Clock Not Worth Extra Price
Comment: The game is fantastic. The lunchbox and bobblehead are neat. Those points have been made very well in other reviews of them. This review focuses on the one item exclusive to the Survival Edition, the PipBoy Clock. The clock is a poor product, plain and simple, and not worth $10 extra, much less the $50 over the Collector's Edition price.
Performance is terrible. The clock doesn't work unless you use some redneck engineering on it with aluminum foil inserts placed between the positive battery point and the positive contact plate. Once you get the batteries in and actually get power to the display, setting the time can itself is cumbersome. The three buttons provided are often times unresponsive, requiring a good deal of wiggling at times to get the display to change as desired. The display, even with fresh batteries, is very dim, very hard to interpret unless the room it's in is very dark.
In terms of power consumption, it devours batteries, consuming three AA batteries every two weeks, sometimes sooner. In comparison, the old one-way pager I carry for my job, which has an alarm, storage for phone numbers and time received, and makes some rudimentary sounds if desired, uses one AAA battery every MONTH or so. This clock doesn't even have an alarm, and uses much more power for it.
Aesthetically, the clock is a mixed bag. The overall design and look match the Fallout universe exactly. My example, however, arrived unpainted, looking nothing like I expected it to look. I know the technology and "look and feel" of the game series is "used retro science fiction", but this clock is as drab as drab gets, with no logos or anything to maintain that sense of having something form the Fallout world, even if it's a fake. Further, the clock was at one point supposed to be wearable like the PipBoy used in the game. That too, has been nullified by poor craftsmanship.
Furthermore, the level of customer service provided for this clock from amazon.com and Bethesda SoftWorks, the game's license holder, is incredibly underwhelming. For one, in order to get any warranty work done on it, you must send in money, and the clock, to some company in California that no one's ever heard of. So for yet more money you lose possession of a broken clock that originally only cost you $50. Compare this sort of "service" to the defective Gears of War 2 Amazon.com Exclusive Lancer. When the NECA Lancer had its own battery issue, similar to the one described above, NECA and amazon.com worked to fix it somehow. NECA sent out replacement parts, for free, in a timely manner if you contacted them. amazon.com handed out $10 coupons good for the next purchase on ANYTHING they sell. Wither that level of customer service from amazon.com and Bethesda SoftWorks for this quasi-defective clock?
All in all, SAVE YOUR MONEY. The Collectors' Edition gives you so much more value, with the lunchbox and bobblehead being the best collectibles this year. With incredibly poor workmanship, lack of attention to detail, unknown warranty service from a company whose reliability can't be ascertained, and overall price point, this clock simply is not worth the extra $50 price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: who knew the post-apocalyptic world could be so fun?
Comment: as soon as you step out of the vault, you have this overwhelming sensation of "ohhhh boy".
graphics are very well done.
a.i. is entertaining at times with bad guys actually going back and getting weapons after you shoot the ones they have out of their hands.
and my favorite part,
watching the head of an enemy rolling down the hill in front of you after you hit him with your sniper rifle.
a must get for fans of the original series.
Customer Rating:
Summary: PIP boy Survival clock edition
Comment: Not very satisfied with the survival edition, it did come with a great game and a poorly built PIPBoy clock. The clock is not that good. I purchased a couple editions for gifts and they all keep going dead overnight. They all last about 1 day and need new batteries again - forget that!! Seems to be a problem with the clocks draining the batteries down over night. I suggest just buying the cheaper edition.
- The game is great. You definitly need a guide book. The problem is that it does end and you would have to start over again. Not as good as Oblivion. Oblivion is much more colorful and happier.