The effects the Fallout developers provided this game with are just astonishing. But it also means that you own a sound card which is capable of emulating 5.1 because otherwise you wont be able to enjoy all the nice ambient noises.

Therefore it doesn't matter if you fire a gun, listen to the creaking under you feet or the soft waft of the wind blowing through contaminated grass.

If you play this game on the evenings in the dark and you tend to have weak nerves it can be seriously frightening.