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Fallout: New Vegas

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Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. It's the kind of town where you dig your own grave prior to being shot in the head and left for dead...and that's before things really get ugly. It's a town of dreamers and desperados being torn apart by warring factions vying for complete control of this desert oasis. It's a place where the right kind of person with the right kind of weaponry can really make a name for themselves, and make more than an enemy or two along the way. As you battle your way across the heat-blasted Mojave Wasteland, the colossal Hoover Dam, and the neon drenched Vegas Strip, you'll be introduced to a colorful cast of characters, power-hungry factions, special weapons, mutated creatures and much more. Choose sides in the upcoming war or declare "winner takes all" and crown yourself the King of New Vegas in this follow-up to the 2008 videogame of the year, Fallout 3. Enjoy your stay.

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DetailValue
BindingDVD-ROM
BrandBethesda
EAN0093155129016
FeatureLet it Ride! In a huge, open world with unlimited options you can see the sights, choose sides, or go it alone. Peacemaker or Hard Case, House Rules, or the Wild Card - it's all in how you play the game.
FormatDVD-ROM
Weight0.3 pounds
LabelBethesda
List Price$19.99
ManufacturerBethesda
Model12901
MPN12901
Package Quantity1
PlatformWindows XP
Product GroupVideo Games
Product Type NameSOFTWARE_GAMES
PublisherBethesda
SKUFBA20110620-0350
StudioBethesda
TitleFallout: New Vegas
UPC093155129016
Number Of Items1
 

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Fallout New Vegas

review by rainbowhash

I Strongly believe that Fallout New Vegas is one of the greatest games in our Era, with its several hundred hours of fun, brilliant visuals, and free storyline, what's there to lose? The game, Released by Bethesda in 2010 is Primarily a Role playing First person/Third person shooter, and is extremely unique and belongs to a small genre of Free-World RPG games, along with GTA/Saints row games, and many similar, which gives it a good feeling. The things which make this distinctively different is the literal open world, which doesn't confine the gamer to a small city, like in the previously mentioned games.

The standout posative which makes this on the AAA List of my games, and easily on my top ten would be the way it is structured around towns, and the general storyline. I Can't agree with the begining, involving surviving a gunshot to the head, except the entire way the story is lined out gives the player an opportunity to sample everything the game has to offer over a longer period of time, making the confined storyline fairly long and at the same time, constantly entertaining with the introduction of many new characters, and optional quest lines that the player can take, including some of the following (Trying not to release much detail and spoil the game here):

The Khans; A Group of what we would see as a "Bikey Gang"
The NCR (New California Republic); Leading presence as an Army ruling over the post apocalyptic Nevada
"House" : The ruler of the New Vegas city zone
Caesers Leigon: (Pronounced Kay-Ser) another major "Gang" so to speak, fighting the NCR
And many many more, all with their own quest line.

I Think another feature, which is fairly unique in the Bethesda games is the more personalised characters, where most of them have a quest to offer, or a piece of dialogue which may be needed, and gives the feeling that everyone has a story to tell, which to me is a major sellpoint besides the actual game engine its self.

The engine used is common among Bethesda games, being the Gamebyro engine. The outstanding way in which they use this makes it both afirst person and third person game, which i personally loved because i can't get enough 3rd person gameplay. Paired with the extremely nice graphics, the game is set out to be one of the best of its kind, and all of this in an extremely low requirement game (I play this on my ultrabook copingly). The engine does have ts faults, and the maps designed paired with these faults can lead to a pain in the ass for some of the players, leading to sinkholes, or the dead body of a raider smashing into you, somehow causing you to ragdoll from one side of the map to the other, except most of these issues are fixed with patches, which as we can all see will cause more errors as they come along (Skyrim also does this). The maps themselves are actually massive, like they're really really big! It takes me some time to get from one side to the other, i actually haven't had the time to complete this journey, but it goes to show the sheer size of the map. And this isn't just black spots inbetween, the maps are fulled to the brim with small nooks and crannies which make up a fun side-adventure, to find many hidden objects, and many different little things to make the game have an endless cycle of fun.

Modding the game is made exttremely easy with the simple ability to either download mods through Steam, or many other third party programs, or simply place them in the Fallout folder, and open them in the Launcher. Now with this said, the game has literally unlimited things to do, with myself playing many hours a week of this game, and still not completing some of the quests which are included in the side-stories, and mods.

In closing i would like to say that this game is easilly a 4.5 Star game, the only downfall being the lack of fixes for some outstanding bugs in the game. ( Please go easy, first review
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ProsCons
Massive, RPG+FPS feeling, No set Questline, Easy on the computer, Great Graphics, VERY Mod friendly. Storyline can be short, Unscaleable Mountains (Typical Bethesda Game), Feels similar to FO:3, Still no transport

Ratings
Overall4
 
#6 ·
One of the better RPGs in recent years

review by boredgunner

An excellent addition to the revived Fallout series, Obsidian wanted to make a Fallout game keeping the standard set by Bethesda with Fallout 3, but at the same time, bringing back some of the dark humor and role-playing elements that made everyone fall in love with the first two Fallout games.

Fallout: New Vegas achieves just this, and offers significant improvements over Fallout 3. It's much less buggy and will probably never crash on you. The new weapon mods system and iron sight function help tremendously, and with all of the DLC and a few mods, it has MUCH more guns than any shooter. Even more than ArmA 2: Combined Ops with ACE 2.

Don't even bother playing this game unmodded: get all of these. This will bring life back to the game, both literally and figuratively. By default, this game's open world design is quite bland compared to Fallout 3. There are less interesting locations and is much, much more safe and welcoming which is not something I desire. But with those mods, the game will contain some of the most interesting and brutal places in the entire series. The graphics mods, especially Project Reality, will improve atmosphere a lot. And EVE is just... amazing.

This game is a better RPG than Fallout 3, and many other recent RPGs. There's more decision-making that have greater impact on the game, both on smaller scale and large scale. The new faction reputation system is wonderful and helps with role-playing. Like Fallout 3, New Vegas is a must have, especially if you don't want to deal with the instability of FO3.

ProsCons
Better than Fallout 3 at storytelling and creating characters, excellent free roam and mod supportMore bland world design than Fallout 3, but mods fix this

Ratings
Overall4
 
#7 ·
A great follow up to Fallout 3 with a slightly different touch.

review by doomdash

I mentioned above to refer to my Fallout 3 review. The reason I say this is because if you liked Fallout 3 I would find it hard to believe you wouldn't feel exactly the same about New Vegas. The only major disadvantage I can think of about NV is that the DC setting was slightly more atmospheric to me. There really isn't much to say about NV other than it's more Fallout, which is a good thing. If you loved FO3 don't hesitate to pick this up.

ProsCons
It's more Fallout. Please see my Fallout 3 review and realize that all of this carries over to NV. I would say most of the DLC was mediocre.

Ratings
Overall4
 
#8 ·
Very addictive and plays slow

review by amar

Fallout: New Vegas is a game which draws you in. This game will be loved by those who play games to relax, i.e. those who don't want to spend much of their brain and for those who have plenty time and patience.

The world is big, very big and looks good. This is a game in which you explore, your surroundings, learning about the history and all this is through talking to people(actually a lot). But some are not so friendly who are lurking in the vast territories to kill you. From here comes the essence of a shooter.

One thing that could have been better is the character, you don't know your own player, who he is, the game lacks character development on the whole. And as mentioned earlier, traveling can feel overencumbered(pun intended) , its too slow paced.

ProsCons
This is a game in which u can spend hours of time without even noticing. People who like slow-paced games will love it.Bad action gameplay, sometimes travelling feels cumbersome, the characters don't feel alive.

Ratings
Overall4
 
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