... More than just a shooting game

... More than just a shooting game

Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game)

Customer Review

I am usually totally opposed to any shooting game and've never bought one.
But then I saw the advertisement for Fallout New Vegas, read a little this and suddenly I wanted to try it because of something "incredibly many possibilities," and was "RPG like" said. So I bought it after the price was gone down somewhat.

For a newbie like me it looks again at the beginning as a typical shooting game. The cover, a well-armed man with a gun in warlike pose.
United emblazoned Rated logo on the cover. When I then also saw the opening scene, I doubted my decision to buy. A cold-blooded gangster style "kill" me.
But shortly afterwards, as you can choose from many abilities and skills, it makes me fun again.

About the story:
From waking up in the sleepy Goodsprings to a showdown on the Hoover Dam can experience an incredible amount.
The player can choose several companions that can be improved even in one or two ways after completing certain challenges and / or quests
and are mentioned in the story end again. The improvements do not just have an impact on the match-ups of the companion, but also change his life story drastically. So there are at it try much.

Then there is the game many factions that can support or combat. And each seems to be its advantages and disadvantages.
It is not a group in my eyes is shown as "just good" or "only evil continually" (well except for one maybe). This makes the whole thing realistic in my eyes.
While traveling through the Mojave Wasteland you get to know different characters and stories that I find some of them very captivating and sometimes even touching.
Finally, you can reach 4 I know the main thing, with countless small variations, which often have little things bring the difference.
I have long played until I thought to have a taste of every possible ending.

While traveling through the Mojave, one also learns to computer terminals and notes many fates of desperate people, corrupt company, and the people dealing with the war and the date on it. Here also many tragic fates in the vaults, which, as you probably experienced in previous parts, served not only as a protection against the war, but were also used for sometimes completely inhuman research. Well read in the Wiki project "The Vault" (de.fallout.wikia.com/).

Gameplay:
The game plays out in my opinion the best of the first-player view. Although there is a third player view, but I find it difficult, because you can see his character from the side instead of the front. Personally, as someone who has no idea of ​​"shooters", find especially the VATS mode very helpful, where you can choose exactly which opponent you where want to meet and the result is shown in slow motion. It rarely came a point where I found the game really hard. Now I have to admit definitively that I have because I'm just not experienced in these games, have played on easy difficulty and also the so-called hardcore mode, which comes with challenges such as food and need for sleep, skipped. Of this I can therefore make no impression.
Otherwise, I think it's good that you can coordinate pretty good and set the companion in my opinion. What I but something "stupid" find, is that the Most data companion while shooting were a little overzealous. When I decided to take a casino with criminal line apart, shot my companion on fleeing civilians fleeing prostitutes and what I did not want to at this point. In addition, the meissten shoot around even if I really want to hide, and the opponents have not discovered me correctly, but are just more cautious. Since I had already liked when you can command the companions to fight at all.

For landscape:
As I wandered through the game, the desolation and the post-apocalyptic mood sometimes went straight over to me.
Everywhere destroyed houses, nuclear waste and barely a patch of green and very few normal animals. Also encountered relatively few of civilians.
If you want to find something salvation, intact, you have to look far. I think at this point is a matter zwiespaltige.
The destroyed, not just beautiful, and nuclear contaminated soil probably is exactly what wanted to achieve the developers. The terrible world, people have created with their warmongering. But I personally feel that sometimes even as much. Without really beautiful landscapes that can be discovered, my curiosity was slightly slowed down. At first, I was still hoping to beautiful, more populated cities, until I realized that this is just in New Vegas halfway is probably the case. Long played the game hinterlies me a sad aftertaste and sometimes I left the game only to see again my beautiful colored desktop background.

Conclusion:
Overall, I think, makes the game very thoughtful. It know well aware out what people in selfishness and greed can do anything for resources. How terrible the effects of pollution and nuclear war can be pointed in many facets. It is in my eyes never too optimistic or too pessimistic and can also be fun, because you mastered many challenges and one end that a person likes most common being, can choose. I enjoyed it a lot of fun to help people, and that can be done in many ways. But who likes it, which can also freely murdering and stealing and if you want even wipe out almost all people. But I think you can see that this game is not designed for senseless murders. It is complex and it has a solid message that to be discovered.

Each ability can affect the dialogues and have what follows. Many acts are also from the radio station "Radio New Vegas' reports and overall I think the balance between tension and thoughtfulness succeeded.

I can only purchase a unique recommendation for RPG fans, opponents of the war, but also the fans of "normal" Ballerspielen should come my impression after their money. And if you, like me says that all games with firearms are stupid, just look like me the bigger picture. It can not hurt ...

This is my opinion, others might play the game and come to different conclusions ...

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