The Obsidian and Bethesda team-up has taken Fallout 3’s post-holocaust world shown through posters, abandoned buildings and half-destroyed computers and actually given it a proper good story, though. While it’s possible to go on a shooting frenzy, if your skill points don’t match up, you won’t have the best success.
Having high charisma and speech points will allow more conversational options, and having higher strength points will mean you’re more likely to beat the shite out of one of those raider bastards. There are several weeks worth of gameplay here alone, with the RPG aspect really pushed – Fallout’s always relied on character and personality choices over action. With a map full of undiscovered locations and seamlessly integrated side-quests, there’s no need to go chasing the story just yet.
Well, there’s no need to! This is Fallout, go a-wandering, pal. But, given that you’ve no history or personal attachment to your character as you had with Fallout 3 (you’d grown up with him/her!), it all seems a bit early to go on a revenge mission. The story unfolds itself from there as a struggle to find the chequered-suited fop responsible. Where Fallout 3 had you grow from a child before throwing you into the overwhelmingly open world of the wasteland, New Vegas drops you straight in there as a courier whose delivery of a package has gone awry leading to your near-death.
How does it manage it? Is it the unmatched freedom of roaming a post-apocalyptic Mojave desert? The rewarding off-story exploration or the epic feeling of the heavy decisions we have to make that alter the course of the game? Yes. The equally welcoming and heartbreaking similarities are enough to make you wonder whether New Vegas would’ve been better suited as a huge DLC and, for the first while, you can’t shake the feeling that it’s just a re-skinned Fallout 3 based in the world of Red Dead Redemption.Īnd then we played it more. It’s all just a yellow version of Fallout 3’s green Pip-Boy. There doesn’t appear to be any sort of graphical improvement whatsoever, the music is the same, the sound effects identical. You see, Fallout: New Vegas looks, sounds and plays exactly like Fallout 3. Our immediate response was a mixture of overwhelming joy and complete disappointment. We’ll admit, this was our most anticipated game of the year! And we weren’t disappointed.
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