While Legion is undeniably evil, they’re not just a bunch of assholes who kill people for fun. Not only does the game manage to find a non-ridiculous justification for the existence of a group of people who pretend to be ancient Romans, it also makes them interesting. One of the best things about the plot of New Vegas is Caesar’s Legion. It’s probably the best main story in the series, with a natural progression from a personal quest for revenge to an epic conflict which is as much about power and resources as it is about philosophical differences. The journey will lead him through a world which can be best described as a post-apocalyptic Wild West – complete with radios playing old country songs – to the city built on the ruins of Las Vegas where gamblers, criminals, prostitutes and shady businessmen live in the shadow of the approaching war. After being nursed back to health by a doctor from the town of Goodsprings, he sets out to the Mojave Wasteland to look for the people who tried to kill him: two members of the Great Khans gang (implied to be related to raiders from the first Fallout) and a man in a checkered suit. New Vegas begins with its protagonist – The Courier – getting shot in the head and having his delivery – a single casino chip – stolen from him. The game also features many smaller factions, each with a Fallout 2-style reputation meter, although with slightly more complex mechanics: positive and negative actions don’t cancel each other out, giving the protagonist one of many mixed reputations instead which makes the characters think of you as someone unpredictable and not very trustworthy. If the player dislikes all the factions (and each of them gives you reasons to hate them), it’s also possible to go against everyone and fight for independent Vegas, with a potential for an extremely satisfying conclusion in which the protagonist uses diplomacy and a few threats to convince the game’s most powerful armies to leave Vegas.
House who is said to be so old that he lived before the war – will do anything to stay in power. The eponymous New Vegas is a strategic target for both nations but its current ruler – a reclusive Mr. One of the most important plot points is the conflict between New California Republic and Caesar’s Legion – a ruthless army which conquered many of the smaller tribes and enforced cruel laws based on a strict moral code. New Vegas is a game even more focused on faction politics than Fallout 2 was. It also marks the return of classic Fallout-style ending with multiple (interconnected like in Fallout 2) segments showing how the fates of different places and characters were affected by the protagonist’s decisions.
The game has a plenty of skill checks, quests with multiple different solutions and less combat (this made it possible to play the whole game without killing anyone but also led to some players being disappointed by a world which can feel empty in comparison). Like old Fallout games, New Vegas focuses on player agency, non-linear narrative and character building. The game also revisits many of the ideas from cancelled Van Buren project, as well as a quest with a Vault overrun by hostile plans which might be based on the idea for Fallout Tactics 2. There’s a reason for that: many of the Obsidian employees used to work in Black Isle Studios and New Vegas credits include some familiar names like Josh Sawyer or Chris Avellone.
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Opinions on this game are sharply divided, with fans of Bethesda’s take on the series criticizing it as a less polished Fallout 3 while those who prefer the older games seeing it as the closest thing to a new Interplay Fallout. This is because it was not made by Bethesda but by Obsidian, a studio known for such titles as Knights of the Old Republic 2, Alpha Protocol and more recently Pillars of Eternity. Despite being powered by the same technology and having very similar graphics, it’s also designed in a very different way. New Vegas might at the first sight look like just another expansion to Fallout 3 (it uses the same engine and a lot of the same graphical assets) but it is in fact a separate full-length game.
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