Fallout: New Vegas

Despite the numerous bugs, New Vegas is a magnificent RPG, one that stands head and shoulders above its predecessor. More importantly, it's also the game that Fallout fans have been waiting for.

In New Vegas, the fun Fallout 3 formula is intact, with more polished combat, high-quality side missions, and the exciting setting of the Vegas strip. Unfortunately, the bugs also tagged along for the ride. If Obsidian and Bethesda had polished up the game by fixing the AI, improving the animations or even gotten it to run smoothly, perhaps it would feel less like a giant expansion of Fallout 3 and more like its own game. Be that as it may, Fallout 3 was a great game, so as similar as it is, Fallout: New Vegas is still a fun ride that offers more for fans of the series to enjoy. If you can loo...

Welcome to New Vegas. This wasteland is home to Super Mutants, Elvis impersonators, radscorpions, flying robots, and tumbleweeds. The deadly bugs around here are blue and fly, so ain't that a kick in the head?

It really is — there is no way we could possibly see everything the game has to offer and still meet deadlines and cover other games. New Vegas is like a vacuum, it sucks you in and refuses to let go. It is a beast of a game, brimming with content, exploration and objects to interact with. It's more than a game in many ways, it is an experience. It's an experience that demands time, that demands frequent involvement in a work-like manner. It is, in some ways, a chore. But it's the kind of chore that's different every time you do it. So vast is New Vegas' world, so varied are the cast of charac...

Despite minor disappointments however, this is a very engaging title. Those who missed some of the more trademark Fallout elements in Fallout 3 should be somewhat satiated in this game, as Obsidian really bring that flair to the franchise once again. The glitches, whilst highly annoying, will hopefully be patched soon after launch, but again we can’t help but feel that as time goes on there’s less and less of an excuse for shipping games in such a state. Perhaps they’re paying the QA te...

For anyone that missed out on Fallout 3 - which would be a tragedy of epic proportions - then here’s a chance for redemption, if such a thing can be found in the original city of sin. It's time to venture into the wastelands once again, only this time you'll be swapping the dilapidated ruins of Washington D.C for the bright lights and gaudy entertainment of Vegas. New Vegas that is. Considering the runaway success of Fallout 3, it is hard to see how a sequel could possibly go wrong, as even...