


The nearest comparison I can come up with off the top of my head is a similar system that is part of STALKER: Clear Sky (which is likely a game none of you have played, but there you go). The changes? The largest one is a new reputation system, which makes you enemies or friends of groups that you come across based upon interactions with them and their friends and enemies in the past. The sound effects and the graphics are the same, and in fact the whole sort of retro-futuristic feeling of the game is unchanged. Inventory, purchasing, bartering, character interactions, the Pip Boy, collecting bottle caps – all there. is still there, as is the leveling system of perks and abilities. The initial character setup S.P.E.C.I.A.L. For those of you who didn’t play Fallout 3, and yet are somehow, perplexingly, interested in a review of Fallout: New Vegas, read on – I’ll cover the mechanics of the game farther down below.So, what they didn’t change: most of the game. So, fully cognizant of the fact that just about everyone reading this review played Fallout 3 to some extent, I’ll hit the high points early on. system and found the graphics a little tired, you’ll get that too.

And, if, like me, you were kind of tired of the whole V.A.T.S. So, if on the whole you liked Fallout 3, and I did, you’ll find yourself with a whole new chunk of real estate to explore chock full of new radioactive mutants and towns and quests. That gave me a good perspective, a fresh recollection of the things about Fallout 3 that I loved (and didn’t love), and a clear understanding of what changed in the new game (not a heck of a lot) and what remained the same (pretty much everything). With that said, on with the review.It seemed to me to be some kind of cosmic coincidence that only last week I finished playing The Pitt, which was the final expansion for Fallout 3 that I had yet to play, and here comes Fallout: New Vegas. There are some changes, and I’ll get into those below, but if you go into Fallout: New Vegas expecting the same gaming experience as Fallout 3 you’ll be neither surprised nor disappointed. Right up front I’m going save all of us a lot of time by saying that Fallout: New Vegas is more or less the same as Fallout 3.

The Bad: With all the perks and flaws of Fallout 3 preserved in their own vault The Good: More post-apocalyptic good times and adventures
