Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas Release Date Announced
Bethesda has announced we'll be able to tour New Vegas starting October 19 in North America and on October 22 in Europe. The follow-up to Fallout 3 will be available at retail on that day, and many Fallout 3 fans will again lose themselves in the Fallout world.
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Latest Fallout: New Vegas news
Bethesda Softworks has revealed the star-studded voice over cast for the highly anticipated Fallout: New Vegas, the follow-up game to the critically acclaimed Fallout 3 (my favorite game) Read more ....
Feb. 17, 2010 -- In a recent interview with USA Today, Pete Hines, Bethesda Vice President of PR, revealed some new information about Fallout: New Vegas. When talking about the setting of New Vegas, the length of the game, and some back story to the main protagonist.
At the outset of the game, your character is shot and left in a shallow grave in the desert, lifted of the package you were entrusted with delivering. A robot digs you out and takes you to a local caregiver, Doc Mitchell, who nurses you back to health.
“Unlike the previous Fallouts, where you start in a vault and you are a vault dweller, this one starts with a curveball,” says Pete Hines of Bethesda Softworks.
The move to Las Vegas provides “a brand new, fresh experience that has a familiar feel of Fallout, but otherwise it’s an entirely new game and a new look, with Joshua trees and tumbleweeds and blue skies,” Hines says. “Vegas is up and running. It is not a ghost town. It still exists and thrives. There are casinos, and you can go down onto the Strip. It will have a very different feel from that standpoint.”
Events in the game happen a few years after Fallout 3. No characters from that game appear, Hines says, “but you will eventually hear a little bit about the events” of that game. New Vegas is “a self-contained story. You don’t have to have played the previous games to have any clue what’s going on here.”
At the game’s outset, you get to customize your character by choosing gender, age, race, other attributes and skills. “You were a courier, and you were obviously carrying something that somebody wanted,” Hines says. “Part of the story is finding out what you had and what they took.”
Says Hines, “It is a massive game world that will take you hundreds of hours to explore every nook and cranny.”
Fallout: New Vegas Video Preview
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More Fallout: New Vegas news
The recent edition of PSM Magazine features an article with Obsidian talking about Fallout: New Vegas. Scans of the magazine have already hit the web, here is what is revealed in them.
The following comes from the March edition of PSM Magazine:
Quotes from PSM Magazine:
- It shows the command wheel for followers, with 8 commands: toggle melee/ranged, open inventory, toggle stay close/keep distance, back up, toggle aggressive/passive AI, use stimpack, toggle wait here/follow me, return to normal dialogue.
- Scripting is wittier, characters more distinct. Example from vigour test word association: mother-human shield.
- Opening inventory consists of a kit from the doc, adapted to your starting stats (like Fallout 1).
- The Nevada area is less affected by the nuclear war, so it has plant life, relatively unspoiled houses, and in visual presentation has saturated colours and a bright sky.
- There's a tutorial (led by a character named Sunny who looks a lot like Moira Brown), but unlike Fallout 3, it's optional, so you can hit the open game in 5 minutes from starting.
- NCR and Caesar's Legion are the confirmed faction, article assumes Brotherhood of Steel will be in but they weren't mentioned in the presentation.
- "In New Vegas it's all about the player examining the ideologies of the various groups that are controlling the area and supporting one over the others," explains Sawyer. "Each of the ideologies will have something good that you can relate to, but will also have massive flaws."
- When asked about PS3's Fallout 3 being inferior to the others and if New Vegas will do better, Obsidian devs make no promises but indicate it was a learning process and they're working with all 3 platforms and all have problems.
- The New Vegas strip is still in construction but will have gambling, variety shows and concerts
- Electrical power is key in the faction struggle.
- Radiation is still a problem, there's a nuclear test site to explore north of New Vegas.
- The soundtrack will blend "Rat Pack style tunes with more Western numbers".
- New Vegas doesn't tell a single-player story, but weaves decision into the gameworld and gives you greater power to influence things than Fallout 3 did.
- On top of adding back in geckos, New Vegas has a whole new type of animal: mutated mountain rams called Big Horners.
- Electricity is the new clean water it seems.
See the magazine scans
Fallout: New Vegas
February 4, 2010 - The debut teaser trailer for Fallout: New Vegas shows a barren wasteland surrounding a still-intact Las Vegas cityscape (see trailer below). The first thing I asked was how has the city survived the apocalypse intact? Then the camera pans back and reveals an ominous looking character who is wearing a mask and trench coat standing on the outskirts of town looking in. The trailer ends with the line, "War, war never changes."
Fallout: New Vegas is set for release this fall for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Games for Windows in North America and Europe, publisher Bethesda announced this morning. Development is being handled by Obsidian Entertainment, led by the founders of Black Isle Studios who previously worked on Fallout 1 and 2.
The official website for Fallout: New Vegas in its FAQ section also revealed Fallout: New Vegas will be a single-player only title, and is set "in and around New Vegas in Nevada," hopefully meaning players won't be confined within the city limits as it would be really fun to be able to explore another huge wasteland.
The website also gives fans a greeting, and a few words of warning, as they prepare to enter New Vegas.
"Experience all the sights and sounds of fabulous New Vegas, brought to you by Vault-Tec, America's First Choice in Post Nuclear Simulation. Explore the treacherous wastes of the Great Southwest from the safety and comfort of your very own vault: Meet new people, confront terrifying creatures, and arm yourself with the latest high-tech weaponry as you make a name for yourself on a thrilling new journey across the Mojave wasteland."
"A word of warning, however - while Vault-Tec engineers have prepared for every contingency,* in Vegas, fortunes can change in an instant. Enjoy your stay.
* Should not be construed as a legally-binding claim."
Fallout: New Vegas Teaser Trailer
Fallout: New Vegas Xbox 360 Series - IGN Rewind Theater: Teaser Trailer
See what the folks at IGN.com thought about the clues in the first Fallout: New Vegas teaser trailer.
Fallout 3
The third game in the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. Combining the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction gone terribly wrong, with the kitschy naivety of American 1950s nuclear propaganda, Fallout 3 will satisfy both players familiar with the popular first two games in its series as well as those coming to the franchise for the first time.
I have played Fallout 3 more than all the other games I have combined. The endless wandering through the Capital Wasteland never ceases to entertain me. I actually have to limit how much time I spend playing it or I would spend several hours a day playing this game.
Fallout 3 Official Trailer
Fun at Tenpenny Tower in Fallout 3
Here is a great video from YouTube called Fallout 3: fun with 150 mines and an old man by sk8ingmonkey4 on YouTube. It is his version of blowing up Tenpenny: Tenpenny and a pile of 150 mines.
If you don't already know, Tenpenny Tower is located in the southwest section of your map in Fallout 3. After the Great War turned everything into the wasteland that I love to wander the building that was to become Tenpenny Tower was still intact. Allistair Tenpenny began restoring the old luxury hotel is it is now the refuge of Allistair Tenpenny who allows people to live there for the right price, however as you will find out Ghouls need not apply. Read a bit more about Tenpenny Tower.
Fallout DLC for PS3
The award-winning Broken Steel, The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage are now available for download on the US PlayStation Store for $9.99.
Broken Steel
Broken Steel enables you to continue your existing Fallout 3 game and finish the fight against the Enclave alongside Liberty Prime. Broken Steel also moves the level cap for your character from 20 to 30, allowing you to experience even more of Fallout 3, which as I have stated is my favorite game. Broken Steel also includes some new perks and achievements.
In Broken Steel, the player has dealt the Enclave a serious blow at Project Purity, but their forces are still out in the Wasteland and pose a grave threat to the people and security of the Capital Wasteland. In Broken Steel, you’ll continue your current Fallout 3 character past the events of Project Purity, and work with the Brotherhood of Steel to eliminate the Enclave threat once and for all. Your character will be able to travel to new locations like the Olney Powerworks, brandish destructive new weapons like the Tesla Cannon, and fight commanding new creatures like the Super Mutant Overlord.
The Pitt
The Pitt allows you to travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and become entangled in a conflict between slaves and their Raider masters. Investigate an extensive settlement ravaged by nuclear radiation, time, neglect, and moral degradation.
The Pitt is very morally vague – there’s no real right or wrong, just choices to be made by the player, sides to be chosen, and a mystery that could send shockwaves throughout the entire Wasteland.
The Pitt opens with a desperate radio message, and a meeting with its sender, an escaped slave named Wernher. Wernher claims that the leader of “The Pitt” has created a cure for mutations… and he needs you to go in and retrieve it. From there, the player can proceed in a number of ways, in true Fallout 3 style.
Operation Anchorage
In Operation: Anchorage the player will find themselves able to re-live the famous liberation of Anchorage from Fallout lore -- inside a simulation similar to one found along the main quest of Fallout 3. Once the player finds their way into the simulation, they'll be stripped of their resources and have to survive within the rules set up by the simulation's creators.
The Chinese red army is everywhere, and the player will first have to secure the surrounding mountain side and then fight their way into the Chinese base. The player will have to use a lot of their standard combat skills, along with several new tools that will only be available in the downloadable content. These include interactive Strike Teams under the player's command and unique armor, weapons, and other exotic gadgets.
Point Lookout
Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta are also available for the Playstation 3.
The fourth Fallout 3 downloadable expansion, Point Lookout, takes you on a ferry ride to an area that time forgot. It's a swampy environment that sits just outside the Capital Wasteland filled with gnarled trees, foggy hillsides and inbred monstrosities that live in shacks.
Mothership Zeta
Those who explored the wasteland in Fallout 3 have likely come across a downed alien ship sending out a distress beacon. Well, that call for help gets answered in the last Fallout 3 downloadable add-on, Mothership Zeta. These are not your E.T. phone home types of aliens. Instead of offering friendship and flying bicycles, these guys are here to abduct humans in the name of alien science.
Mothership Zeta begins with your abduction. From there, your number one goal is to find the captain's bridge and a way back to Earth's surface. To do that you'll have to team up with a few other humans and fight your way through the bowels of this massive space cruiser. The aliens aren't going to sit back and let you have your way. A few different varieties of nasty little critters will take up arms against you, as will some new types of robots. Come prepared for a battle.
An interesting perspective on playing Fallout 3
The Vault
Need some help with Fallout3, then check out a Fallout wiki with over 7,555 articles called The Vault. The Vault is a community that aims to create the best resource for the Fallout series of games, including Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3 and their spin-offs. The Vault's portal dedicated to Fallout 3 is an indispensible resource that gives valuable information of the Fallout world for anyone playing Fallout 3. I don't know how many times I went this website when I first started playing Fallout 3 to find out where locations, weapons and items I needed were.
There is a terrific interactive map of the whole Capital Wasteland where you can pinpoint locations of building, items, weapons and almost anything else you might be seeking. There is also a very helpful map of the DC districts and connecting metros that shows what connects to where in the downtown D.C. area.
I still go to The Vault for information, but just not as often now that I have spent over 150 hours exploring the Fallout 3 world.
2009 Best of IGN
IGN.com's Best Expansion Award for PC is Fallout 3 - Broken Steel DLC. Some gamers were disappointed when Fallout 3 actually had an end, but Broken Steel gives you a chance to keep the music going. More ...
Many of us older gamers were disappointed when Fallout 3 actually had an end, especially since we don't always run out and buy the latest video game on the market. We tend to keep playing the games we like. However Broken Steel gives you a chance to keep wandering the capital wasteland. Broken Steel for Fallout 3 continues the story from the end of the original game and gives players lots of new content to play around with. You can read IGN's review of Broken Steel for Fallout 3 as well as reviews for other platforms for Broken Steel and the main Fallout 3 title.
Available to Xbox 360 and PC owners, I like Fallout 3 Broken Steel because you get the opportunity to extend the main story, and it lifts the level cap and offers some new weapons and armor to play around with while wandering the capital wasteland.
Fallout 3: Game of The Year Edition
The Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition
will be released on October 13, 2009. Pre-order now!
Fallout 3: Game of The Year Edition for PS3
Fallout 3: Game of The Year Edition for XBOX
The Story: For 200 years, Vault 101 , a fallout shelter, has faithfully served the surviving residents of Washington DC and its environs, now known as the Capital Wasteland. Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Giant Insects, Raiders, Slavers, and yes, even Super Mutants are all no match for superior Vault-Tec engineering. Yet one fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the only home you've ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth.
The Old Man's Top 5
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# 2: ★★★★★Follow-up game to 2007's critically acclaimed Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the PlayStation 3 exclusive Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a continuation of the adventures of Nathan Drake, a fortune-hunter with a shady reputation and an even shadier past. Chock full of all the action, adventure, cinematic story elements and beautiful graphics that set the first game apart, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves adds deep online multiplayer options, including co-op and competitive campaigns, and a whole new supporting cast of characters. |
# 3: ★★★★★Modern Warfare 2 is a first-person tactical shooter and the sixth entry in the popular Call of Duty series. True to its name and following the lead of its predecessor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, it places players in modern combat settings, as opposed to the WWII environments of the earlier Call of Duty games. This modern approach brings with it new weapons, action and options. Coupled with a variety of gameplay modes including single player, multiplayer and the co-op Special Ops Mode, it is destined to be one of the most popular games of 2009 and a worthy addition to the Call of Duty series. |
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# 5: ★★★★★The third game in the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. Combining the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction gone terribly wrong, with the kitschy naivety of American 1950s nuclear propaganda, Fallout 3 will satisfy both players familiar with the popular first two games in its series as well as those coming to the franchise for the first time. |
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