Fallout New Vegas

 

 

Create your own review

This is a poor sequal to one of the greatest games ever made. Do yourself a favour and grab a copy of Fallout3, and enjoy. Your Welcome.

As a long time fan of the Fallout series (on any platform) I couldn't wait for this to be released. The tribal pack addition that was included with Amazon preorders was great! Gave a little boost at the start of the game.

It encapsulates all the is great about Fallout; keeping with the style of fallout 3 while bringing back some of the more challenging aspects of the previous games (such as Hardcore mode, in which healing is over time and companions actually die).

The game is buggy and it can affect many aspect of the overall experience. Sometimes quests don't start, or you can't finish them; clipping errors, freezes and hang ups. Patches have been released and have begun to help, but even with problems it is worth playing.

Like post apocalyptic role playing? Like a mix of FPS, puzzles and fetch and gather quests? Like to shoot heads off people, mutated animals and insects? Check this game out!

Fallout 3 was perhaps my favorite game of 2008, I got all the DLC, hacked every lock, did just about everything, so I was pretty happy to hear about Fallout New Vegas, even if Obsidian was developing the game; Obsidian isn't bad, they just do sequel games really well like KOTOR 2, but when it comes to new IP's like Alpha Protocol which took around five years to release basically an unfinished and unbalanced game. Luckily, New Vegas builds on what Bethesda did with Fallout 3, and with a nice splash of colour and vibrance New Vegas kinda has an identity all its own. A fan of Fallout 3 would love this game. People on the fence, however, won't see how good the game really is, they'll focus more on the fact that New Vegas only sees slight improvements in presentation and some new gameplay aspects like ammo and weapon mods. Fallout New Vegas feels more like an expansion to the Fallout series rather than that next step in the franchise with brand new everything. But if you love Fallout 3, Fallout anything is welcome, even if there are some technical issues.

New Vegas' character creation stems from what seems to be the end of your character, going on a whole High Plains Drifter feel of an unknown courier left for dead come back to save the day, no rape this time. Instead of birth being creation like in 3. Your character awakes in a small town, after being rescued by a passing robot, your character is a courier sent to deliver a mysterious package, but you ran into the wrong people that preciptates your characters apparent demise. Various questions are asked that determine what attributes you have, or want. The game stresses more on the allies or groups you help or hinder in the Mojave. Save a city from the Legion, a group of slavers and killers, and make enemies with the Legion, conversely if you ally yourself with the Legion you'll make an enemy of the city and the New California Republic, a more democratic but weakened military group trying to hold the Hoover Dam. I've only got so far as finishing a few quests involving Nipton and the Legion, and it's been interesting. There are certain gameplay aspects that change how things can happen in any given situation. An example of this is the uniforms you can find, for a quest I had to rescue some slaves from the Legion, and I noticed one thing, as I went with the strongest armour. Yes, you can run into any given situation, guns a blazing killing all the baddies as you go, that is still a fun option to do; however, another way of getting what you need is to wear the uniform and blend into the crowd, then you can get the drop on em.

New Vegas looks to have focused more on how you traverse through the world situationally and morally. There looks to be lots of side-quests, one concern I have is that with the Wasteland of D.C. in Fallout 3, there was the underground, series of caves, tunnels, and old subway lines to explore. I haven't found too much of that, thus far the sites I've visited are more location with swag. Fallout 3 had this way of you starting doing one quest, and then you end up sending two hours doing another side-quest because you'd start exploring an alternate route. New Vegas is still very much open, and if you go to the wrong location when you're still a lower level you'll get murdered in a second.

New Vegas is something of a flawed package, Fallout 3 had the benefit of coming out two years earlier and with VATS, and the expansive "Oblivion with guns" open world gameplay, it was that mind-blowing, deep experience that gave that feeling that you lived in a world on the edge of disaster and recovery it all hinged on your character and the kind of life he or she led. New Vegas still goes on the same 'karma' system, but it's lost the new feeling. New Vegas has a dubious distinction of being good now, but it would've been great a year ago, or even as an expansion kinda like your Fallout 3 character does a Fivel goes West thing but gets murdered along the way. That being said the technical issues that have been talked up and down in reviews is somewhat true, I haven't had a game freeze, but the game sputters like it does in 3 when there lots of bad guys running about or even when you're going through the Mojave there's often little snags or hang-ups in the game that slow it, and even with the install there's still long loading. But I'm sure there will be a patch to fix many of the slowdowns, snags, and other technical issues Overall, New Vegas still brings that Fallout experience that was made great by Fallout 3, it may not feel new, and yeah the character sprites look like weird dolls emotionless dolls, but it still delivers on a solid game that will be made better through DLC and patches. Also the voice acting is essentially a who's who of notable celebrities, Ron Perlman, Wayne Newton, Kris Kristoferson just add life to the game even if the characters they speak through look a little lifeless.

Collector's Edition -

I got the collectors edition of this game, just like with Fallout 3, but it's not really worth it. Fallout 3's collector's package came in an aluminum lunch box adorned with the Vault Boy art on the box itself, an art-book, and it comes with a Vault Boy Booblehead, which is still my favorite piece of plastic ever when it comes to the other collector's editions I've gotten previously. New Vegas comes with a cardboard box and sheath, made to look leathery, it looks good. The goodies inside are basically indicative of the game itself, various poker chips, a deck of cards with various characters within the game or part of the mythology surrounding the game. The value associated with this collector's edition hinges on if you love series.

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 8 customer reviews...

 

4.0 out of 5 stars Fallout New Vegas
Over all a great game, still quite a few glitches for the game play, stalling, and some freezing other parts the character would actually go into an object and not be able to get... Lisez davantage

Published 10 months ago by N. Kunkel

3.0 out of 5 stars good, not great
i'm not going to be talking about the glitches and bugs because at this point it's common knowledge... Lisez davantage

Published 14 months ago by bob

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game
I had bought this video game for my boyfriend for Christmas and he loves this game! He stayed up all night playing this game.

Published 16 months ago by Sam

3.0 out of 5 stars Great game, great writing, lot of bugs
A lot of bugs! Hope the patches fix that though because the game is great! Awesome story, good writing. IT definitely has that authentic original Fallout feel!

Published 18 months ago by lalongue

5.0 out of 5 stars More Fallout 3, But Better
If you liked Fallout 3, then you will likely like this game more, because it takes everything in Fallout 3 and makes it better. Lisez davantage

Published 19 months ago by Kyle Rogers

Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

› See all 8 customer reviews...

Search Listmania!