Oh, and did we mention casinos? It just wouldn’t be Vegas without the casinos. Sure, there are two-headed cows, bandit raiders, and scorpions the size of a Ford Focus, but there are also towns, trading caravans, and even competing governments.
The world you’re exploring is part-Mad Max wasteland, part-wild west film and part-fully functioning society. Instead, it’s set 200 years after the bombs fell, with all of the advances you’d expect. What makes New Vegas so special though is that it isn’t set in a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Instead of smartphones and the internet, this universe gets atomic-powered robotic butlers and laser guns – oh, and a devastating nuclear war between the US and China in 2077 which destroys society and kills pretty much everyone who hasn’t booked their place in a huge underground bomb shelter, or ‘Vault’. Luckily for everyone, Obsidian’s team included a lot of the original creators of the Fallout series, and what New Vegas lacked in graphical advancements and stability (the PS3 version was so notoriously buggy that it was almost unplayable), it more than made up for in story and atmosphere.įor those not in the know, the Fallout series takes place in an alternate timeline that diverges from reality after WWII.
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A short development cycle of just 18 months forced the development team to re-use assets from Fallout 3, and it was farmed out to Obsidian Entertainment as a spin-off rather than a full sequel. READ MORE: ‘Tomb Raider’ at 25 – Ian Livingstone talks about the birth of Lara Croftįallout: New Vegas was dealt a loaded deck before release.Dean Martin’s ‘Ain’t that a Kick in the Head’ starts playing just as I take the first shot at a two-metre-tall gecko, which proceeds to turn around and breathe fire all over me before a man dressed as a Roman Legionary punches it to death.
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