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I finished it earlier today. It was great overall but the ending sucked ass in so many ways. They must have rushed like hell to get it out the door or something.
Multiple endings. (they say over 200, though I think that number is just little tweaks that can be made to 4 or 5 very different endings) Your character must have been lame :P
I can't link to proof without spoiling, but there are only 8 endings. There are no permutations based on other things you did - only three variables exist, and you get the following:

Part 1, Part 2a or 2b, Part 3a or 3b, Part 4a or 4b, and Part 5.

And there's a very good reason the ending is retarded. These spoilers are total ending spoilers, so fair warning:

(SPOILER)Part 1 is "You left the Vault to follow your dad."

Part 2 is your karma. Good or bad.

Part 3 is whether you sacrificed yourself, or Sentinel Lyons. There's a character, Fawkes, who is immune to radiation. The final act in the game is to choose who goes into a radiation flooded chamber. The problems are that A) You can quite easily have enough radiation resistence to get in and out safely, but you die anyway if you go in, and B) You can't choose to have Fawkes go in.

Part 4 is whether you used the modified FEV to cleanse the Wasteland of anyone with mutations. Super mutants, Ghouls, and humans who were afflicted. Problem: My character was an idealist. He was a GOOD guy. He believed that sacrificing some good people to kill the Super Mutants and Ghouls who held most of DC in their grip was worth it. He also risked his own death, seeing as he'd mutated! The ending portrayed him not as misguided, or questionable, or willing to sacrifice even himself for the greater good, but as a genocidal quasi-nazi maniac.

Part 5 is "He walked into the wasteland forever yadda yadda" even though he should probably be very dead.

So two of the three changable ending parts are decided in the last minute of play, and very little you do throughout the game influences the ending. But yeah, mainly that Fawkes and/or radiation proofing is smurfing retarded.