Fallout: New Vegas (2010 Video Game) User Reviews

Improvements and Bugs

[battylife · 9/10 · 14 January 2011]

After the mega-hit that was Fallout 3 a follow up was inevitable. Fallout: New Vegas attempts to recapture the shock and awe of Fallout 3, while adding a little spice in the form of new locations, gameplay, and the karma system.

As the name suggests Fallout: New Vegas takes place in a post apocalyptic Mojave desert. Your character is a courier who is shot in the head and left for dead. Luckily a friendly robot digs you up and takes you to a town for medical support. Once you're back on your feet you need to find out who shot you and why and retrieve the package they stole from you. But it's not that simple when you've got two major armies battling for control of the area, raiders, gangs, and countless wasteland critters in your way.

One of the things that sets New Vegas apart from Fallout 3 is... well Vegas. Unlike the rest of the Mojave, Vegas was never hit by the nukes. It still has the lights, casinos and sin of the old world attached to it. This attracts more than just tourists. Several military forces are pulling for control of Vegas and Hover Dam, and your choices will decide the winner.

Gameplay is similar to Fallout 3. You have guns, explosives, melee weapons, energy weapons, and even your own two fists to take care of the bad guys. The combat can be played in real time or in V.A.T.S. When using V.A.T.S. the game is paused and you select body parts to attack. Their chance of hitting and the enemies health are displayed. V.A.T.S. requires action points which are replenished in real-time combat, so you'll be using both evenly. The game can be played in first and third person, although first is highly recommended. When it comes to exploration there are no vehicles, which mean you'll be walking everywhere. Luckily once you've discovered an area you can fast travel there. Each time you level up you get to increase your skills. Skills determine how deadly you are with certain weapons, how tough you are, the locks you can pick, and the people you can trick. Every other time you level up you pick perks. Perks give special abilities to your character. Perks are unlocked depending on your current skill level with different skills so it's recommended you play through a second time to experience everything.

The other big gameplay feature is your karma and reputation. Karma is your personal choices on how to handle situations. Stealing and killing civilians will lower your karma while helping others will raise it. Different groups treat you differently depending on your karma but it's not as important as reputation. Your reputation is how much different groups like or dislike you. The more a group likes you the higher the discounts you get at their shops and the more support they'll lend you against foes. The more a group dislikes you the higher the prices the at their shops and the more likely they'll be to put bounties on your head. In makes you think twice about who you double cross. You won't be able to be friends with everyone so certain quests will be locked, so it's again highly recommended you play through a second time.

The graphics are (for the most part) amazing. Character models look great and it's breathtaking to climb a steep hill and see the Vegas strip shining for miles over a bleak and destroyed wasteland. The occasional texture fade-ins and unblinking eyes of NPCs break the realism.

Fallout: New Vegas sounds perfect, but it's not. The game is riddled with glitches. Some small like invisible walls and clipping, some big like hostile NPCs and and game crashes. If you save often it won't be a problem but it's still annoying.

All in all Fallout: New Vegas is an impressive game that any fan of shooters, role players, or gambling would be a fool to miss.

This game is worth more than a thousand words.

[DustinRahksi · 9/10 · 26 February 2013]

It is so much easier to write video game reviews than it is to write film reviews, mainly because there is a lot more to talk about. I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about the fallout games, but a thousands words will do for now. Fallout 3 is the best game I have ever played, meaning I had some serious hype for this. It was not better than Fallout 3, even though it improved a lot of things, it was still an amazing experience. Spoiler free, even though there are no spoilers to be had in this game, so don't think anything I say is one.

The Game: I came into this game acting like the grand master, my knowledge served me well, but the game mechanics have been changed. At first it was incredibly hard, to the point where I didn't feel like playing anymore, but there was no chance of that. In the end you can become even more powerful than you could imagine, the weapons and their mods could change any battle, those statistic enhancement implants were great to. I have pretty much completed this game, I'm level 50, I got the platinum trophy, and have done so much that my PS3 can't even run this game properly anymore. Why is it that the PS3 version of these games always suck, I had to develop a tactic to keep this game running properly, for the sake of the word limit, I can't explain how. My total play time came up to around a 150 hours, nothing compared to the some 750 hours I spent on Fallout 3. The waste land is now even more hostile, those annoying Cazadors will beat your ass. Now they have death-claws that are as big as a two story house, that can be solved if you know the right tactics. I did like the option of choosing which side I could fight with, I liked the wild card one the best, like the game says "no gods and no masters", just the courier and an independent New Vegas. I didn't care for the NCR or Cesar's legion, I suggest going in alone or with Mr. House, those are the only worth while endings, mainly you could destroy both sides commanding officers, if you already didn't kill Cesar when you preform brain surgery on him. Remember what Vegas looked like in the trailer, well it's actually nothing like that, it was a major let down. The amount of side quests have been doubled, so you rarely will have nothing to do. I really enjoyed the parts with the Enclave and Brotherhood of steel, it's really cool to get the Enclave Tesla armour. The guns are much better done this time, you get more variety and they all feel great to use. I suggest getting the regular sniper rifle, once you completely upgrade it you can solve any problem you encounter, and do so silenced and stealthily. I was a little disappointed that you can't buy property, but I ended up seizing control of Mr.Houses casino tower, now I have property where all of my companions can live with me, note it never feels crowded. There are plenty of locations to discover, each has some weight or value. You can even find yourself having 3000 plus Stim-packs and 100s of thousands of dollars. Make sure you get the perk that allows for strange events to occur so you get get rare loot or even a diamond encrusted Pip-boy. Note the hardcore mode isn't very challenging once you know what you are doing, I completed the game in 8 or so hours on hardcore mode, so don't be discouraged by it. I could go on for longer, but I still have to talk about the DLC, so thats all I can share about the standard game.

DLC: Considering how great Fallout 3's DLC was, I had high hopes for this game. The first one, Dead Money was actually pretty challenging, and only recommended to people who are looking for a challenge. Overall it wasn't very good. Honest Hearts was more of what you would expect, open world. It was alright. Old World Blues, this is the one you defiantly have to get, it offers the most content and is very well done, highly recommended. I bought the lonesome road, but as i've said the game won't work anymore, it must have not been made to allow you to complete everything. The gun runners pack is also a good buy if you want some new guns, buy it early so that you can make use of it.

I wish I could have talked about this more, but it is what it is. It's a great game, recommended to those who have the time and patience. Get the PC version, it is a all around better experience than the PS3 version.

Absolutely Brilliant

[brad_and_tango · 10/10 · 29 October 2010]

As with all Fallout games in the series; the whole concept of the game is mind blowing. The sheer adventure of walking through a post apocalyptic wasteland may not appeal to some, but for those who support the series this is most definitely the best. Fallout 3 was brilliant, but was a bit depressing to play. New Vegas definitely has a better vibe to it, and it also contains more people and weapons. although there are a few minor let downs, 1. Quite Glitchy, a few unfinished rock graphics, slip into one you're stuck and must load back. 2. Danny Trejo's Voice doesn't really suit the ghoul character he plays 3. Main Story ends too quickly. But, apart from that: Brilliant.

Overall, a very good game worth buying.

[Lachlan-smith · 9/10 · 21 December 2011]

Fallout: New Vegas is a game that can be played in every way: you could play though the main story and call it a day, or you could be a completionist like me and try to milk it for all it's worth over several separate playthoughs. you can go around with a sniper rifle on your back and try to take down your enemies before they see you, or you can go in with an assault rifle, or an SMG, or a plasma rifle, or a laser rifle for that matter. you can be noisy and rush in with your grenade MG, or with your trusty chainsaw, or, you can be sneaky and fight with a silenced pistol, SMG or sniper. what i'm trying to say is that the possibilities are virtually endless, and it is up to you to decide what suits you best.

That is just one aspect of the game. What really makes this game one of the best is simply the atmosphere it has. No game in history has ever made you wish a nuclear apocalypse more than this one. weather it be the wide, desolate yet wild landscapes, ranging from scorching deserts to snowy mountains to vast lakes (not as peaceful as it sounds), or maybe the endless sub stories hidden throughout the many computer terminals that are present in all of the ruins scattered about the Mojave wasteland, this game is huge. not just in the size of the map, but in the stories that go along with it, because for all those people who think that this game has no character development, you are mistaken, for the character with the most depth and mystery is the Mojave Desert itself.

Hands down the best fallout game!

[stayfree-51277 · 10/10 · 7 July 2020]

In my honest opinion, this is the best fallout game. The lights of new Vegas, the multiple endings, the soundtrack, all the different settlements and the reputation system within the settlements. This game has it all! The wild wasteland trait really adds some great references in the game aswell

Fallout New Vegas Review

[Moviememmer · 26 October 2019]

Pros:

• Great story, perhaps better than 3's
• Interesting characters
• Some new additions to gameplay (sights, mods)
• Deep expansive open world
• Less drab graphics than 3's
• Great RPG elements
• Multiple factions

Cons:

• Not allot of differentiation from 3
• Still can't explore after completing game
• Graphics still look pretty bad

Verdict: Fallout NV is sort of a Fallout 3.5, but it is still great game to play that improves on a number of things. Still a good game.

8 /10.

One of the finest western RPGs.

[Leandro-Pacheco · 10/10 · 11 December 2020]

The undisputed champion of modern Fallout games and an amazing experience overall. With an expertly crafted world and well written story, Fallout: New Vegas gives the player a wide variety of opportunities to shape the future of the Mojave, be it through benevolent actions and righteous causes or through downright psychotic mass murder. You owe it to yourself to play this modern classic, even if technical issues might slow you down.

Obsidian did it right.

[jrmuldoon-35445 · 10/10 · 5 October 2019]

Nuff said...



My review is too short so here are some extra words for padding.

Fallout: New Vegas

[SpoilerReviews · 10/10 · 26 August 2021]

(200+ hours experience)

Yes I review more than movies...

Fallout: New Vegas is the best RPG games I have played.

This game actually pulls off something that many RPG games fail to do... and that's provide freedom to the player. In this game I can do whatever I want, what should I do to this clan... spare or exterminate, should I wipe out this entire town but get a ton of profit, how should I finish this quest, do I even want to even do it in the first place? In many games it is simply broken down to "can't progress until you do all these missions we want you to do." That is to me what makes me like Fallout: New Vegas more than any other game. It allows you to make a character. And this character can be good or bad, dumb or smart, a pacifist or a man who swims in negative karma. You can make your character however you want and how you make it reflects off scenarios in the game. For example, if you work for this person called the "King", you have to be escorted by a bodyguard that is suspicious and has to be tested. While you are testing him he runs ahead of you and fires 3 bullets into an alleyway that isn't in view of the player and you see 4 bodies when you walk up. When you talk to the bodyguard if you have high intelligence your character questions how he killed 4 even though he fired 3 bullets and you learn that the escort is a set-up to deceive the "King" into trusting him. But if the character has low intelligence the character isn't smart enough to know that the scenario he/she has come across is not possible, so therefore you can't confront him about it. Or if you have a skill that is high enough called "Medicine" you can learn that the bodies are pretending to be dead. It's stuff like that that make me love games.

In the GTA games or Fallout 4 (those games are still good though) you need to follow a path "want to progress this boring mission, sorry, have to finish it to progress". Fallout: New Vegas isn't like that. Believe it or not you can kill everyone in the game (even essential or game changing characters) and still finish the game. YOU CAN SHORT CUT TO NEW VEGAS OFF THE BAT IF YOU WANT TO... SERIOUSLY, YOU HAVE SO MUCH FREEDOM IN THIS GAME TO DO ANYTHING. This game is awesome and is my favorite game of all time (while I'm typing this).

The Game with Limitless Potential

[BadgerStorm4345 · 10/10 · 25 April 2020]

New Vegas is a game where the player chooses the story almost entirely. It has a wide variety of characters, a vast open map and a great soundtrack to give the game life. This is a game where role playing a character is a huge part of the fun. New Vegas has a couple problems however. In my opinion I hate the fact that the game ends after you beat the story, I wish you could continue as planned rather than just having to start a new character. I also don't like the durability system that they kept from Fallout 3. My biggest issue with the game is the actual gameplay. As smooth as it can be compared to Fallout 3, I hate relying on VATS all the time. These problems don't make the game unplayable or anything but they are very present and I'm glad Fallout 4 addressed them. Fallout: New Vegas is one of the most lively experiences a game can offer and without a doubt will be one of the best games I've ever played.

Yes

[AlexanderHume · 10/10 · 9 April 2020]

The deepest, most complex and well-written RPG of all time. It lets you truly do anything with the world and characters and the whole event feels like a complex rolling epic that you have total control over. Obsidian need to make the next game in this series. Better than anything Bethesda did with Fallout (not that I don't like Fallout 3).

My favorite

[brennenearl · 10/10 · 27 September 2019]

Take the feel of the first few and add the gameplay of part 3 and you have a masterpiece.

• Positives

All

• Cons

None

A good game with excessively frustrating glitches.

[atk92 · 6/10 · 2 March 2013]

For the record, I own the Ultimate Edition for Xbox 360, and have put the game onto my hard drive to try and diminish potential issues.

This review is a latecomer to the scene, as this game has been out for several years at this point. However, I think that I need to bring to light that while this game can be very enjoyable in the way most modern Bethesda games are, the terrible bugs that can randomly occur while playing this game greatly diminish the Fallout experience.

The story of the game is simple enough, and I won't review it this post. In short, it is a competent narrative that is a good enough hook to make the gamer invested in what happens. Side quests that are a staple of Bethesda sandbox games are omnipresent in this game, although I will say that it seems that compared to Fallout 3, this game seems to focus more on combat experience than quest experience. In Fallout 3 huge XP bonuses were gained only for completing quests. The more important the quest, the more XP awarded. In this game that still happens, but now there are bonuses in XP for completing certain combat challenges, such as killing X amount of enemies, popping pills Y amount of times, or drinking and eating Z amount of health. This isn't necessarily a detractor to the game, but it is a change and a focus shift that may bother some gamers.

The combat itself is very similar to previous Fallout games. VATS is still the go-to for combat, but one major improvement in the game was the ability to use iron sights for aiming guns manually. This is a very simple change, but it makes a big difference in combat, because alternating between manual aiming at enemies and using VATS becomes a more plausible option than in Fallout 3. There are several major problems that I personally have had in combat. Several times I have used VATS, only for my character to enter VATS mode for a prolonged period of time without shooting at the specified target. This is a problem because your character is still vulnerable in this mode, and you are rendered completely helpless to whatever enemies are attacking you. Another problem I have had is with the Mysterious Stranger perk. This stranger will show up and do his work, but then VATS mode will continually focus on him while you again helplessly take damage again. I have died at least fifteen times due to these two aforementioned bugs. I have had countless enemies get stuck in rocks or in walls, and have also at one point had to restart from a save because I walked over an uneven slope, and entered continuous and inescapable free fall.

Several other problems I have encountered are random freezing, and I have had several save files corrupt, ruining over 10 hours of game play. I have also occasionally had my screen change colors, often to an unplayable point where my screen was completely bright green.

Suggestions: Save often, and create at least five different save files. This will hopefully prevent losing progress from file corruption. If frame rate slows down, immediately save. Avoid the Mysterious Stranger Perk, and do not use VATS unless completely necessary. These are suggestions that solve the problems I have encountered, there may be more I haven't encountered. Overall it is a good experience, but all of the aforementioned issues have made it frustrating and unfortunately somewhat ruined the game experience for me.

A good game buried underneath too many flaws.

[BudgetSecurityGames · 3/10 · 16 September 2015]

I wanted to like this game (with its supposed focus on freedom and interesting characters), but could not.

It felt very dated, and there were too many immersion breaking flaws and bugs. In terms of graphics, level design, and animations, this feels like a game from 2005 (to a lesser extent also true for TES:Oblivion, but it certainly bothered me less there). The main quest offers good freedom of choice, but otherwise quests are mostly quantity over quality – a hallmark of Bethesda. Some of the characters were entertaining though, and voice acting is fairly good. Character leveling and perks are also quite well done.

The interface looks cool but is a total pain to use. There are no keyboard hotkeys, which means switching weapons or healing requires browsing through the full menu each time! Combat feels unbalanced (Oblivion and Skyrim were slightly better here) ranging from OK to frustratingly tedious or difficult. The difficulty of various foes often does not match with the expectations the game lore may give you. Enemies run around without any movement inertia making them frustratingly difficult to aim at. Hitbox detection is not great, and your bullets are often blocked by invisible walls if they pass near geometry. I also had lots of enemies get stuck behind geometry, with only legs clipping through the wall. Worst of all, at one point, my gun would not fire bullets – I would hear and see the gun fire, and the ammo counter would work, but no bullets – I got eaten alive, both ingame and in terms of frustration.

The mod experience was bad: I could not get most mods to work despite following all instructions etc. The mod scene may be vibrant, but it is still a total mess. It lacks curatorial refinement and there are no "1-click install" total-overhaul supermods (like the "complete" mod series for the Stalker games).

Buried underneath all the flaws is a good game, and you might find it, but I gave up after days of digging.

Yet another great gaming experience with a better story and a fuller feel than FO3

[bob the moo · 4 November 2011]

When this game came out I had never played Fallout before, but a lot of people I knew (IRL or internet) were excited for it and I started listening to them talk. What I heard was a lot of positive but also lots about bugs, glitches, freezing and just how much time it consumes – ie similar to what I had heard about Fallout 3. Since then I picked up FO3 for tiny money and loved it despite the very occasional freeze-up in my 100 hours or so playing! Despite this, I let the negative things about NV put me off picking it up for a while before eventually getting it.

As before I find that Fallout delivers me a massive gaming experience with so much to explore and do that I get totally immersed in this world despite me not really being a big RPG fan. At time of writing I have played the game for around 130 hours and still have a couple of the DLC sections I want to do. It is also worth saying that this time is with one character. As with FO3, you have a main storyline but you also have endless little side questions, many of which are linked to the story but a lot of which are simply optional. In terms of the story, it is much better than the previous game and I did find it interesting to follow along, although not so interesting that I tried to rush it – having played the previous game I knew that the story would wait for me to progress it. I also benefited from knowing that there was a specific point in the story where you do have to make a decision to align yourself definitively with one of four factions – so I put this point off for as long as possible so that I can make a save here (as the exploring and discovering is a massive part of the game for me, repeating 80 hours for the sake of a different ending doesn't appeal).

However I did like the way that different factions do treat you different. In FO3, the karma thing makes a difference but not a massive difference. In NV it makes things much more engaging that, if you decide to attack NCR for fun, then don't expect them to keep giving you missions and smiling at you – they will attack and you may find you go so far that you remain enemies throughout. I enjoyed this and, as I play middle-of-the-road, it was fun keeping everyone more or less onside by doing side-quests etc. As before, exploring may not look fun to someone watching you play, but it is fun to never know what is coming and find locations that might just be a burnt out car with some stuff – or come over the hill to find the city of New Vegas illuminating the skyline. Indeed I enjoyed the side quests so much that I had done 80 hours and the majority of them before I even went to Boulder City (which is early in the main story).

The game looks and feels the same as FO3 and it is a little disappointing that graphics haven't moved on since then, but only a little – the game quickly makes you forget superficial details like that with how enjoyable the gameplay and world is. Those that were excited about the strip will have been disappointed to find that it is quite a small settlement with only a small number of buildings, but personally I liked it as it was only ever going to be an oasis in the desert and not a massive city. I also very much liked seeing it from afar at night and its location was perfect for that. The audio design was improved from FO3. OK we have more star voices in small roles, but for me the main thing was that more voices were used for characters you don't interact with, whereas in FO3 all males had the same voice and phrase.

I didn't dare play hardcore, but this game was enjoyably tough even in the normal mode. Enemies seemed harder and some of the tougher ones were scattered around nicely – although I missed my dartgun at first, I was glad that the Deathclaws remained a challenge throughout, and couldn't just be slowed down with one dart. The only downside of playing for so long and doing all the side quests before advancing the story was that, by the time I did finally get around to choosing a side and fighting at Hoover Dam, I was such a high level that I was pretty hard to stop; but personally the handful of actual story missions were just a small part of the game when you consider the wider world.

Overall Fallout New Vegas did it for me again. A huge world with so much to do – yes visually it is essentially a mod of FO3 but this only bothered me for the first few seconds; after that I was off out into the wasteland, making moral decisions, exploring, helping out towns, setting up murderous old women, leading a cult to their salvation and keeping all factions on my side. Crashes and glitches for me were probably 1 in 15 hours, which I can happily live with in exchange for such a great game.

Arguably one of the greatest games ever made

[aminkarahmet-43926 · 10/10 · 13 January 2020]

In 2010. when the game came out, a lot of players experienced gamebreaking bugs and glitches that were really annoying. Considering it was made in 18 months, the game was pretty good. The developers kept making patches that would eventually fix most of the bugs, but to this day, bugs do occur in every Fallout game, there's even a bug section on the wiki. What wasn't made in those 18 months, came later in the form of DLCs: Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Lonesome Road, Old World Blues. Each one is more entertaining then the last, introducing new elements of the game and stories never heard of before. The overall story of New Vegas is one of the best stories ever written, having comedy, tragedy, romance, action, and many more. Every character has a story behind them, each being more impressive than the other. Unlike in the other Fallout games, you aren't a figurative demigod, you are a person that is imperfect in their own way, that has an altruistic feel, deciding who they trust, and who they don't trust, who to support, and who to not support. I started playing this game in 2015. thinking it was going to be just a normal open world game. But, it was more than that. Even five years after my first try, I still discover new things that are little things the creators implemented during their 18 short months of development. The gameplay is in the middle of things, it's much better than of Fallout 3, but not so much better than Fallout 4. One of my favourite gameplay elements is the Karma and Reputation systems. Karma determines how good as a person you are. Gaining Karma can be done by helping people or killing bad guys, while losing it can be done by helping bad guys and stealing from people. Reputation determines how you treat a certain faction. For example, I am disgusted by what the Legion does, so I have a Vilified reputation with them, because I like to see their red football jerseys through my sniper scope. But the most interesting thing in the game is the pacifism. Unlike Fallout 4, where almost all your choices are to murder people, in New Vegas, you can avoid that through conversation, intimidation and bribery. The whole game can be beaten by not hurting a soul. Seriously, you can talk your way out of a boss fight if you play the game correctly. In other words, since New Vegas, it has only gone downhill with the inclusion of the Creation Club and microtransactions. Going back to the day where everyone made a game because they loved to is really good, and playing this game sure shows so. I would recommend this game to everyone, not just adults, but younger people too, because this game can teach them a lot of things other than how to use a weapon.

Drama seems to enhance with the apocalypse, every time, including casinos

[Apthecaryofficial · 9/10 · 5 February 2020]

The story structure is by far the best of all the fallout series, obsidian really took the chance making the protagonist an unknown wanderer, instead of a vault dweller (generally fallout game protagonists are ex-vault residents) its predictable that the deepness of a "random lead-headed protagonist" can only go so far as to be apathetic and mysterious, but in this case the lack of a backstory makes for an interesting playthrough generated adventure, just like a classic tabletop RPG! As for the engine and the graphics, of course when compared to past frostbite level the engine lacks, but instead of becoming a retroclused game, it somehow transcends to the not so common, experience trophy memorabilia, which not only holds its character as a must play timeless game and an interesting 90+hours worth experience Cast wise, hum, Benny's voice is irritating enough, Caesar's voice is old enough, brotherhood participants still sound like urban range renegades, mutants have new Nightkin voice relations, doc Mitchell's eternal first liners and player grunts from oblivion (two sided joke here) Mod availability: there's like more than 1 million mods available, the fans are still creating dlc sized mods, which reminds me: Well compared to other fallout instances, the variety is outstanding, i mean helping grandpa find his old bank account, finding your old job partner among the meated zombies, managing a brain council space station and forgetting your purpose and walking blindly into a territory disputes sure means fun for all ages! (see age gap tho) Overall an unending masterpiece and a somehow player guided, revenge fulled apocalypse casino reality show filled with guns, robots, zombies, polical uncoherence, pilot religion slavery island trashville well balance production intrusive well worthy experience!

Just amazing

[jakeholko · 9/10 · 9 December 2022]

It is amazing, from the story to the excellent gameplay. New Vegas never disappoints, still my favourite fallout game as it nails the atmosphere and theme. The world is absolutely amazing, the strip is so cool to go to and the Mojave wasteland is so empty, depressing yet realistic. There are at least 100 weapons and each weapon feels different which makes for unique combat encounters. Each enemy feels unique, each requiring different weapons or types of ammunition to kill. Gambling is also existent and it now feels more purposeful to have a high luck skill. As well as the smaller details in casinos, with the fun casino mini games and the three rewards you can get before earning too much money and getting banned from the casino. Each quest is unique yet fun and I genuinely think (after over 150 hours of playtime) that this is and always will be the best fallout game.

The best Fallout game!

[kobemackenzie · 10/10 · 13 July 2022]

Fallout new Vegas takes place in a post apocalyptic world in Vegas. Your character travels the Mojave as he tries to track down the guy who shot him in the head. The game really gives you a western vibe. The game not only has a long story but many side quest. And every mission in the game has multiple ways to beat it. The games gives you a lot of choices in the game and the choices you make affect how character will treat you in the game. So you can be this guy who helps people around the Mojave or you can be the guy who people are scared of because of how mean you are to people. Or you can be the guy who only helps people for pay but still has morals. The game gives you a big open world for you to explore and a lot more lore to learn. The game also gives you 4 different ways to beat the game with all of them having different endings. The combat is also pretty good for a game that is old. The game also has some great voice actors they got Danny Trejo, Zachary Levi, Ron Perlman, John Doman and Matthew Perry just to name a few. Overall I think this has to be the best Fallout game to date and I would recommend this game to anyone.

Games.....Games never change

[deputyesham326 · 8/10 · 5 November 2010]

For that I am great full. Fallout New Vegas has the makings of a great game, GOTY it is not but fun filled time in the wasteland it is! Riddled with new characters along with new upgradeable weapons is cool. NV does have it's flaws for example while in the wasteland enemies become lodged into the ground or stuck in the air, after killing said enemy they actually fall through the map. Some of the V.A.T.S usage becomes unreliable at times causing you to miss your target.

For a lower level character starting off it is best to stick with the missions at hand instead of wondering around the wasteland.

Obsidian has updated the "companion wheel" which is easy to use when you get a partner to go along in the wasteland with you.

One of the things that they have done is letting you make your own ammo which is very frustrating and time consuming.

All in all New Vegas is a great sequel and has opened the door for many more add on's as well as whole games in general. Bugs and Glitches are found but they are few and far between now thanks to the recent update/patch.

Best Fallout

[TrollBerserker · 8/10 · 15 February 2019]

I just found out you can review games on IMDB and like to see what will happen. For the game I just want to say play it if you haven't

The first Fallout game I played !

[kursadbugrahanyapar-40285 · 8/10 · 7 July 2019]

Please do a remake for this game. Great screenplay, great side quests, massive gameplay with lots of inside. The only bad thing is that their graphics are bad.

If you haven't played and you're an RPG fan, I would definitely recommend you to play this game. While Steam discounts continue, you can take the game at a very cheap price and lose yourself on Mojave territory.

Truth is... The game was awesome from the start.

[jerkitoff · 10/10 · 8 May 2022]

Fallout New Vegas is my favorite game from the Fallout franchise without a doubt the characters and and story are absolutely incredible. I mean who wouldn't want to track down the person who attempted to murder them in a post apocalyptic Las Vegas. "The Courier" is probably my favorite fallout protagonist his option dialogue is great. This game is superior to every fallout game that came before it and after it. I really enjoyed the visual aspect of this game New Vegas is definitely the coolest fallout location to date and some of the side characters/quest are just awesome for example I can remember one instance in particular where an npc asked you to retrieve a "sex robot" and keeps reassuring you that it's not for him and people who have sexual relationships with robots are degenerates. Honestly all of the factions have good points (or at least all of them are fun) and the ending dialogue when you finish the game is great. Personally I chose to side with Mr. House my first playthrough and I still see that as the logical ending. But after all the true beauty of Fallout is the sheer amount of freedom you have to play as you see fit. But hey "From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck."

So much to do!

[NoloContendere · 7/10 · 3 May 2019]

New Vegas is an excellent addition to the Fallout panoply. Having played the originals up through Fallout 76, F:NV is one which always comes to mind for its flexibility. You can do so much in this game, and there are (as someone else stated) no "good guys" who obviously need your allegiance. My only complaint, honestly, is the music. For reasons unknown, the developers chose the most listless, dull, depressing country music they could possibly find. Other than that, the game is nearly perfect.

Buggy piece of trash

[niguess · 1/10 · 14 July 2020]

Was enjoying this game and would have given it a 7, but I've experienced a game breaking bug where it freezes about two minutes after starting it. I'm 36 hours in and have experienced several crashes but have been able to reload a save up to this point with no issues. This is the kind of thing to make me never buy an obsidian game again. I've wasted hours playing a game I can't finish.