14 DAY TRIAL // Fallout: New Vegas is a new post apocalyptic role playing game from developer Obsidian and publisher Bethesda, taking the player to a relatively intact Vegas area and in the middle of a fight for power going on between Caesar's Legion, the New California Republic and the Brotherhood of Steel.
Oh and I plan on tackling this game using the Hardcore mode.
12:00. War, war never changes – Fallout: New Vegas opens with the now traditional line but the exposition element seems a bit too long, talking too much about the two forces facing off and about the ruler of the Las Vegas strip.
12:11. The character creation process is nicely handled, although the Pip Boy gift at the end seems a bit odd.
Maybe it would have been better to create another type of device to deliver character information for New Vegas, something like a modified betting computer or something similar.
12:32. Like Fallout 3, which started with the main character outside the Vault and with precious little information on what he should do, New Vegas puts the player in a small little town with only a small clue as to what he is supposed to do for the rest of the game.
This is both good, for those who like wide open spaces and the possibility to explore, and bad, for newcomers who would like a clear aim and a way of getting to it.
12:40. It seems like the Gamebryo engine is as creaky as ever, with characters still running in a funny way but faces seem to have been improved, with little sign of the “dead eye” syndrome.
12:45. The King gang leader seems to only speak in disguised Elvis quotes, with the NPR settlers urged to be “returned to sender”.
12:51. And Blotflies are still a pain to target, even in VATS.
12:57. Another familiar issue is that some objects in the game world can be stolen easily, while others come with a Karma cost.
I even paid twice when being penalized for both hacking a computer and then picking up the objects from the now open safe box.
13:00. Fallout: New Vegas seems to be another great post apocalyptic open world game. Let's hope that the story matches the set up.