Saturday 6 August 2011

Game Review 1# Fallout: New Vegas

    Hey everybody, this is my new review & rating of the game Fallout: New Vegas. Fallout NV was the sequel to 2008 game of the year Fallout 3. As the name suggests, this game takes place in a post-apocolyptic Vegas and the surrounding Mojave wasteland. Unlike the Capitol wasteland of Fallout 3, the Mojave offers a much brighter sky and is a lot more vibrant than the dark, lonely setting of Fallout 3.

   As you start the game, you will find that you were a courier delivering a Platinum Chip. But at some point in your journey, you had been shot and left for dead. You awake in a doctors house, who had managed to save your life, but you will find that your memory is completely gone. This is where the charector custimization comes in. If you are not familiar with the fallout game engine, you can fully design your charecters facial features, attributes, and skills. This is when the real game starts.

   So your going to need to gain some levels if your going to survive in the Mojave wasteland, and you will need to find yourself guns and armour.. Lucky for us, it seems everyone we encounter during our adventure has some form of firearm/melee weapon, which makes aquiring and maintaining your weapon cache fairly easy. All weapons and armour in this game degrade during use, and must be repaired by an NPC for a fee, or via the Repair skill.

    When you make your way into the Mojave, you will encounter insects and animals mutated from radiation, like the notorious Rad Roach. During your exploration, you'll come across many side quests and people who depending on your actions, can either make you gain or lose "reputation" with the particular group. As you further your adventure, you will eventually be given a choice to join a "side" in the upcoming battle for hoover damn. Each side has different quests and gear, which can make playing the game again after you have finished it an entirely different experience.

   This being my favorite game of all time, my rating of it is probably a tad biased. But regardless I would give this game a solid 9.5/10 just because there is always room for improvement.

Thanks for reading and if you have a suggestion for the next game review, please feel free to leave it in the comments!

21 comments:

  1. I played Fallout 3, and like in your review I heard that Fallout New Vegas is a great game. I have to try it soon.
    Btw, nice review, good job :)

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  2. Nice review man, never played the first one, but I think i might just to catch up on the series now that i've read your review!
    +1 Follower

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  3. How about a review on dungeon siege?

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  4. No offense, but I find it kind of odd when someone's favorite game of all time just happened to come out recently. Have you played many sandbox rpg's or fps/rpg hybrids before it?

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  5. I'm sure ive played any example you can throw at me... As for it being my favorite game of all time, have you played it? Ive played FANTASTIC games throughout my days, but never a game as flawless as fallout NV. As I said in my review, my opinion is very biased on this game because im so in love with it.

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  6. Never got around to finishing this one, thanks for the inspiration

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  7. The fallout series is my favorite of all time. i can't wait for the next one to come out, I can;t even imagine the magnitude of awesome it will be.

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  8. Haha 9.5 is a really high score but I appreciate you enthusiasm. It really was a glorified expansion pack for the original fallout 3 in my opinion.

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  9. I really really like this game, I mean I like the whole series but each one gets better and better than the last. I just love the fact that you have complete and total freewill in this game and so many different ways to end it. I also like all of the side quests that you normally end up missing if you follow the main line religiously.

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  10. I really want this game, curse my perma-broke state!

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  11. Pshhh, my review was better :P. Nice review though.

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  12. I love New Vegas... I miss it. I haven't been able to play since my PS3 broke...

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  13. I love this game so much. Been played Old World Blues a lot recently and i is amazing!

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  14. I've only played through fallout 3 (and the previous 2) I've yet to try fallout:new vegas, will definitely come back to this post, once I do.

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  15. Did you play first two Fallouts? If yes, how would you compare them to this one?

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  16. Nice review, seen some other reviews and building my want to play this game more.

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  17. Yeah I played the first two a fair bit and honestly I can't say that's a very fair comparison, but yea New Vegas just topped the entire series by far.

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  18. Review the game Civ 3 its my all time favorite!

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  19. I'd have to say NV is my favourite of the series purely because of the writing.

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  20. HAHA my first post is about this is my favorite game. I love it. +followed

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  21. nice review I think you have some interesting points

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