Fallout: New Vegas

8.7 / 10

Release Date

19 October 2010

Platforms

PlayStation 3 • PC • Xbox 360

Publisher

Bandai Namco Entertainment

Developer

Obsidian Entertainment

Store Pages

01Overview

Fallout: New Vegas is a first-person Western RPG where players take the role of Courier Six, who survives being robbed, shot, and left in a shallow grave while transporting a mysterious Platinum Chip. The search for the attackers leads across the Mojave Wasteland and eventually into a wider struggle for control of New Vegas and Hoover Dam. Major factions including the New California Republic, Caesar’s Legion, and Mr. House compete for power, while players can support one side or pursue an independent path. Quests frequently offer different solutions through combat, dialogue, stealth, skills, or faction relationships. Character creation uses the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system alongside skills, perks, traits, weapons, and equipment to support different builds. Combat can be handled in real time or through V.A.T.S., which slows the action and allows specific body parts to be targeted. The Reputation system tracks how settlements and factions respond to the Courier’s actions, while recruitable companions provide combat support, unique perks, and personal quests. Hardcore Mode adds survival requirements including hunger, thirst, sleep, ammunition weight, and more demanding healing.

Game Details

GenreShooter • Role-playing (RPG)

Game ModeSingle player

PerspectiveFirst person • Third person

ThemesAction • Science fiction • Survival • Stealth • Sandbox • Open world

Platform Availability

Nintendo

GOG

TRAILERS & GAMEPLAY VIDEOS

Official Trailer

Trailer

2 OFFICIAL VIDEOS

Official Trailer

Trailer

Gameplay Overview

The Factions Trailer

SCREENSHOTS & ARTWORK

FEATURED ARTWORK

Fallout: New Vegas Artwork

EDITIONS

BASE GAME

Fallout: New Vegas - Collector's Edition

Fallout: New Vegas is an action role-playing video game in the Fallout video game series. The game was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. It released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in October 2010. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic, open world environment around the area of Nevada, California, and Arizona. The player takes control of the character known as Courier 6, who, preceding the start of the game, is hired by a delivery service called the Mojave Express to take an unknown package across the Mojave Desert to the New Vegas Strip. The game starts during the delivery, where the Courier is intercepted, shot in the head, and left for dead by a mysterious man who steals the package. After being found by a friendly robot, Victor, and healed by a man named Doc Mitchell, the Courier is thrust back into the desert to seek revenge and recover the stolen package. By doing this, the player becomes caught between various factions competing for control over the desert and its most valuable asset, the Hoover Dam, ultimately coming to shape the future of its inhabitants. Even though it directly succeeds Fallout 3 in order of Fallout game releases, offers a similar action role-playing experience, and shares its engine and legacy content with Fallout 3, New Vegas is not a direct sequel. It marks the return of some elements found in Fallout 2. The game was a critical and commercial success, shipping more than 5 million copies altogether. Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, a market research firm, estimates that the game has sold almost 12 million copies worldwide.

PlayStation 3 • PC • Xbox 360

PREMIUM EDITION

Fallout: New Vegas - Ultimate Edition

Welcome back to New Vegas! With the introduction of the Ultimate Edition Bethesda Softworks presents the definitive edition of Fallout: New Vegas. This complete package, which includes the Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road add-on packs, allows you to experience everything that New Vegas has to offer. To sweeten the pot, you'll be armed with the latest cache of unique weapons, ammo types and recipes from the most recent add-on packs Courier's Stash and Gun Runners Arsenal. Whether you're a seasoned explorer of the Mojave or playing the game for the first time you will find there are more friends, and enemies, to make, more consequences to be responsible for and more opportunities to live in glory, or infamy, throughout the Wasteland. The choices you make will be as influential as ever. Enjoy your stay.

PlayStation 3 • PC • Xbox 360