Fallout: New Vegas

So I'll start off on the negative points.
I'm 10 mins into play and I've already got the trademark Fallout freeze up! You would of thought they'd have tried to improve on the freezing issue from FO3 but apparently not...
Instantly it's clear there's huge potential for replays in the story mode, but the skill tree is almost identical to FO3. It's clear that at the end of the game you will have nearly 100 in all skills and all the best equipment for all styles of play. Therefore just like with FO3, I'll be thinking, "yeah maybe I'd like to replay and follow a different story path, but I'll end up with exactly the same character as I had in my last play thru." That said there's a hardcore mode which may bring some variety...
As for improvements:
Weapon customization
Alternative ammo's
You can finally aim down the sights!

To conclude, if you've never played FO before than buy this one, it's the most ironed out, you'll love it. However, if you played FO3 it's the same car with a new paint job. Don't expect any major changes, but aiming down the sights of a weapon is a miracle!

and when you think the game cant improve from fallout 3. it does.

- Better storyline
- More diverse characters
- A better and more diverse location (Nevada wasteland)

still glitchy and full of bugs but when you play this game you will think, 'who cares?'

Easily the best game of the year for the RPG lovers who love a game with a engaging story, black humour, and a open world for hundreds of hours of exploring.

The game is decent enough but the bugs are the worst I have ever seen. Lost many hours of game play from the corrupt saves that plague it and the constant crashing which has stopped me from accessing every part of the game. People may think this rating is harsh, but to be frank if people bought a film and could not watch it all the way through I'd imagine everyone would give it a low score. I'm only applying the same principle to this game.

I'm sure there will be a patch released to fix these errors soon, however this doesn't change the fact that these errors exist essentially meaning Bathesda have released an incomplete game. Therefore I urge people not to buy this game until the problems have been fixed as then maybe they will release a full game in the future rather than a shamelessly careless rushed out product.

I loved Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas doesn't disappoint either! Yes, this game is extremely alike Fallout 3 but in my opinion that's not a bad thing! There's still a huge selection of weapons, and the VATS combat system is still very fun. A lot of the enemies are the same as in Fallout 3 too.

The storyline is fantastic and the gameplay is so flexible. My only compaint is that it does freeze now and then, so so frequent saving is important.

I would certainly recommend this game to anyone! You can make the story last as long or as short as you like as there are so many side quests to make your way through.

This game is the follow up to the very impressive Fallout 3 and the action switches from the ruins of Washington to the desolation of the Mojave Desert.

You play the part of a courier that's left for dead in a shallow grave after making a delivery. Waking in a doctors house you're given the opportunity to customise your character and then unleashed on the world at large.

Players of Fallout 3 will recognise many of the contents of New Vegas, Radscorpions, Deathclaws, the Brotherhood of Steel, Mr Handy/Gutsy etc etc.

The above being said there is a lot of new components to this game: weapons, factions, abilities, gang types and armour. The ability to add modifications to your weapons adds a new dimension to the game as well.

The map is large and the amount of encounters is absolutely stupendous, the Explorer perk lets you see exactly how many are available to you.

The story line is engrossing and the number of side quests to complete is astounding. I've played for approx 30 hours and have yet to visit/complete half of the story.

Other than the colour palette, graphically not a lot has changed. However, this is not an issue, don't fix what isn't broken. If you want a graphically lead game, buy a COD.

There is only one snag in all of this goodness......lagging. The game will freeze for a few seconds before continuing. This isn't a constant problem though. Previous reviews have mentioned crashing and this has happened to me as well. However, over the course of a fortnight the game has crashed approx three times, not a massive drawback for me.

This game is truly one of the best of its type with improvements over Fallout 3 and only the lagging issues prevented it getting 5 stars.

If you've played Fallout 3 you'll love the next instalment and if you haven't you'll be buying it to see what you missed out on.