Fallout: New Vegas

Product Review

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. It's the kind of town where you dig your own grave prior to being shot in the head and left for dead...and that's before things really get ugly. It's a town of dreamers and desperados being torn apart by warring factions vying for complete control of this desert oasis. It's a place where the right kind of person with the right kind of weaponry can really make a name for themselves, and make more than an enemy or two along the way. As you battle your way across the heat-blasted Mojave Wasteland, the colossal Hoover Dam, and the neon drenched Vegas Strip, you'll be introduced to a colorful cast of characters, power-hungry factions, special weapons, mutated creatures and much more. Choose sides in the upcoming war or declare "winner takes all" and crown yourself the King of New Vegas in this follow-up to the 2008 videogame of the year, Fallout 3. Enjoy your stay.

Product Features

Not even nuclear fallout could slow the hustle of Sin City. Explore the vast expanses of the desert wastelands
Feuding Factions, Colorful Characters and a Host of Hostiles
Enjoy new additions to Fallout: Special melee combat moves have been added to bring new meaning to the phrase "up close and personal".
With double the amount of weapons found in Fallout 3
In a huge, open world with unlimited options you can see the sights, choose sides, or go it alone.

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

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267 of 318 people found the following review helpful

The Pale Courier with a Fistful of Bottle Caps: Fallout 3 Redone Right with a Vegas Flavor, October 19, 2010

Kyle Slayzar (Bismarck, ND) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game)

To most gamers, like myself, the Fallout franchise remained completely off the radar until Fallout 3 in 2008 despite previous hype. Even with the strong feeling that Bethesda Game Studios just copy/pasted the gaming template from Oblivion onto Fallout 3 and just made everything look crapier, Fallout 3 still captivated many new fans to the franchise ultimately leading to the strong number of pre-orders and subsequent sales of Fallout: New Vegas a few weeks ago.

After obtaining the game on release night and putting in almost 70 hours since then (it's November 11th as I type this, so I've had it for only a few weeks, you do the math), I can safely say I will easily put in triple the amount of hours before I'm done. To compare, I put in over 200 hours to get 100% completion on Fallout 3. Fallout: New Vegas is a great game that I will continue to enjoy till I get 100% completion... but the game is not without its horrible faults.

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35 of 41 people found the following review helpful

good yet broken game, October 27, 2010

Will and/or Caroline C. (hampton, SC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game)

Fallout: New Vegas is a a great game marred by some bad programming. And that does not even make sense because Obsidian only re-skinned the Fallout 3 engine for the most part with a few minor upgrades. Bottom line is they puched it out to meet a deadline they knew they were not ready for.

The game itself is good but the programming is merely a few steps above unplayable. In less than a week after launch they had to patch the XBOX 360 version to deal with like 200 bugs that were (as Obsidian states) "not present during testing". Bullcrap. And there are still issues that make the game absolutely frustrating to play.

* The game leaks data constantly causing lagging and freezing issues that require a restart of the system every few hours of playing.
* Many people I know have issues with the game randomly freezing during an autosave which corrupts the save file.
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38 of 47 people found the following review helpful

Good game, but freezes often, October 25, 2010

C. Olson (St.Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game)

I bought this for my son and he has enjoyed it as a follow up to the other Fallout. Unfortunatly, the game locks up and needs to be rebooted fairly regularly which takes away from the game play. Not sure what the problem is, but others seem to have had the same issue. Had we not pre-ordered the game, I don't think we would have purchased this game knowing what we know now. Hopefully a patch or software update will be released to fix this otherwise great game.