By Aaron Groombridge

1. Fallout: New Vegas

2. Introduction
• Fallout: New Vegas is a video game for the
game consoles, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and
PC. It was released on October 22 2010. The
game is set during the 1950’s in a post-
apocalyptic California and Las Vegas.

3. Setting
• Fallout: New Vegas is set in a fictional universe
combining 1950’s setting and science-fiction
weapons and enemies. During the course of
the game, you will have to fight Raiders,
Soldiers, Mutated animals and humans
(Ghouls) and robots. The game is set 200 years
after an apocalyptic nuclear war.

4. Plot
• You play as a courier, who is shot in the head
and left for dead in the middle of the Nevada
desert. The main story is you to retrieve your
package, and find out the men who shot you.
• There are no levels in this game. The game
gives you a huge map to explore, with entire
communities to give you side missions which
can be completed to forward the plot of for
money or weapons.

5. Tech stuff
Fallout: New Vegas runs on an privately owned
game engine called Gamebyro owned by the
creators of the game, Bethesda. It is a c++
programmed engine. The engine can produce
long draw distances and huge expansive exterior
environments with no loading times. The game
has thousands of interiors since every building
that is not destroyed, is enterable.

6. Downloadable Content
• Since the game’s release in 2010, 4 downloadable stories are
available to buy. These are called
• Dead Money, where you are captured in an abandoned casino
• Honest hearts, which sees you fighting primitive tribes in Zion
national park
• Old world blues, which is set in area 51 which sees you kidnapped
by an artificial intelligence called ‘The think tank’
• Lonesome road, which is set in the fictional earthquake ridden land
called ‘The divide’ where you must track down a fellow courier.
• Each of these downloadable content provides extra locations,
weapons, items, clothing, new enemies and allies, new missions
and hours of gameplay.

7. Reception and reviews
• The game was well received by most critics,
who praised the game’s originality and
location. They were a lot of complaints about
the dated Gamebyro engine and bugs, glitches
and freezes. One review called it ‘New Vegas is
huge and sprawling, sometimes gaudy, even
downright ugly at times – but always
effortlessly, shamelessly entertaining.’-
Eurogamer