Fallout: New Vegas

I've played a pretty good bit of the game so far and aside from some technical issues (which come on, this is a MASSIVE game, its going to be bugged up) The Mojave Wasteland is full of life and adventures, not just a desolate wasteland with metro tunnels covering 90 percent of traveling and dead ends everywhere you look. Fallout New Vegas does something Bethesda wasn't able to do, actually it does a lot of things ;].

One good thing about this game is you dont run into the same character models everywhere you go, pretty much every NPC (even the enemies) have their own unique look and face model along with their own unique voice actor. Im not saying every NPC has a different voice actor but its a significant difference from the repetitive voices we got in FO3.

Atmosphere is VERY nice too, tumble weeds, mini dust storms, skirmishes between factions and fights between wildlife.

*VERY TINY SPOILER, MINISCULE*

I was walking down the highway and a guy walks up to me, he needs help saving his girlfriend from a gaggle of geckos on the mountain. I say "Okay, Ill help you", So I go and destroy the Geckos and here comes Mr. Helpless, it turns out he just wanted to get to the stash that the Geckos were guarding.. and thats excactly what he planned to do after he killed me.

What Im trying to say here is you will run into these crazy mini adventures wherever you go in New Vegas. Anything can happen! :). It actually feels like life is going on around you as you roam around, very good atmosphere.

Factions(3 main, 5 or 6 mini), double the weapons, weapon mods, iron sights, campfires for making chems and stimpacks, armor crafting, more side missions and a longer main storyline (and much better I might add), to be honest I cant even think of all the improvements that were given to us at the moment. This game is definately worth picking up if your an old school Fallout fan or even a New school Fallout fan :). If you liked Fallout 3 but you felt like you needed something more or better, New Vegas is for you!

Having been introduced to the Fallout saga of games at Fallout 3 I was eager to continue this immense role playing experience with this latest instalment. I found the game hugely similar to the F3, which in many ways is a positive thing. The detailed character interactions and the wide choice of game paths is what has created the Fallout legacy and it showed no signs of holding up here. The storyline in my opinion is a little bland, relying too much on the glitz and glamour that Las Vegas is connected with to help sell as many copies as possible, when the game is not entirely based around it.

But overall this is another great instalment and will have me spending many more hours reliving the full game experience.

I love the Fall Out universe that Bethesda have created. I racked up over 100 hours playing Fallout 3 (and I still haven't played all the DLC's) and awaited Fallout: New Vegas like a child at Christmas. I even pre-ordered the game I wanted it that much. It arrived and I sat down for what I thought would be a solid weekend of gaming. Oh how I feel let down. The graphics are still good, the story hooks you in and the improvement of how you can make repairs, plus now you change the type of ammo and add mods to your weapons. They've even added a new wilderness skill where you learn recipes for potions and food, this leads you to collecting plants and flowers from the land.

This is all good. The reason the game is only three stars is it's buggy. So many bugs, from not soft saving when you fast travel to losing your NPC's and not being able to complete quest lines fully and then there is the graphic problems. You go to look at your Pipboy for instance, and you end up looking through your character's arm or a really bright screen that you can't use. Plus the game freezes way too much leading me to screaming as I've just lost over an hour's gameplay... if the soft save worked... no of course not, on this occasion the soft save decided to be lame and not work. I keep trying to play it. I really want to play it. But until Bethesda recall the game like Alone in Dark was or patch it then I will not play the game. Back to Fallout 3 then...